New single-aisle planes with at least 125 seats will eventually be required to have at least one lavatory large enough for a disabled passenger and an attendant to enter and move around in. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON – The Transportation Department on Wednesday announced that it had finalised new regulations to require more commercial aircraft to have accessible bathrooms, a long-awaited step to address complaints from disabled travellers about the difficulties of flying.
The finalised regulations came out of a lengthy effort by the Transportation Department, dating to the Obama administration, to develop new rules intended to improve air travel for people with disabilities. However, that timeline is faster than what the advisory committee laid out in 2016 and what the Transportation Department proposed last year.
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