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Airlines: Tight Squeeze in the lavatories

U-S airlines are increasingly putting smaller bathrooms on their planes. American Airlines is using a smaller lavatory on newer planes to be able to add more seats on their planes.

WSB Consumer expert, Clark Howard calls them "micro-bathrooms". He says it makes it uncomfortable for everyone. " The room between you and the row in front of you minuscule, which means nobody at American got the memo that Americans are larger than we used to be," says Howard.

Howard is correct, according to the most recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the average woman who weighed 140 pounds in 1960 weighed nearly 169 pounds by 2014 and the average man went from 166 pounds to 196 pounds.

Airlines say the new restrooms are just a few inches smaller than what passengers are used to. It's not just the passengers who are complaining, flight attendants and pilots are also griping

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