It’s a literal poop deck.
An airplane passenger blew minds after revealing the unique location of the bathroom on a Lufthansa flight, which he detailed in a TikTok video with nearly 5 million views.
“I’ve never seen this on a plane before,” wrote the user — who goes by @downielive on the platform — within the clip’s caption.
Within the accompanying footage, the flyer is seen standing within the aisle as he reveals: “That is a standard business airplane, it’s not a double-decker…but the toilet is downstairs.”
He then pans the camera to a staircase, which leads all the way down to a room with five restroom cubicles.
“How cool is that?” exclaims the content creator, who flings open considered one of the doors to disclose the bathroom, which is of a reasonably standard airplane sizedespite its quirky location.
He later revealed that he was on considered one of Lufthansa’s special fleet of Airbus’ A340-600s, which, because the flyer discovered, put their bathrooms within the cargo hold, One Mile At A Time reported.
The lower-level lavatories are situated in the midst of the cabin and have dog barrier-like gate to maintain passengers from toppling down the steps.
It’s reportedly the one business plane whose loos are situated on a lower level.
Unnecessary to say, TikTok users were amazed by the unique lavatory layout with one commenting: “This looks luxury to me!”
“Yes….I don’t wish to smell the toilet anywhere near my seat!!” exclaimed one other.
“What’s crazy is being in socks walking around,” wrote a 3rd, referencing the trend of travelers strolling about planes sans shoes.
Others joked that this secluded loo location presented the right opportunity to hitch the “mile-high club.”
Uniquely-situated lavatories aren’t the one noteworthy feature of the A340-600, which, at 247 feet from nose to tail, is the second longest passenger plane in service after the 747-8.
Interestingly, the model was suspended from skies throughout the pandemic and was even slated to be retired.
Nevertheless, Lufthansa brought back a handful of them to handle the unprecedented resurgence of air passenger traffic after COVID-era restrictions were lifted.
