Comments on: Flying the A380 with Singapore Airlines

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:51:53 +0000

1 toilet per 44 passengers is not that bad. Don’t like it, don’t fly Economy!

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:27:38 +0000

Hi Ian, thanks for sharing your A380 experience. It’s interesting that over a year after putting up my comments on SQ’s inadequate toilets on the A380, travellers are still suffering from the flawed design.
On principle, I think it’s wrong that economy class passengers should be allowed to use business class toilets and I’m an economy class traveller myself. Generally people try to stick to the rules but when the situation is so ridiculous, sometimes people are driven to seek alternative measures.
We now fly to the U.K. via Amsterdam and on the B777-200, with three engines stolen, it’s more pleasant as you’ve said.
Best wishes for the holiday season, Helen

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:11:29 +0000

Interesting to read your comments on the inadequate toilet facilities and I fully agree – and I’m a Business Class traveller. My wife and I travelled in the Business Class section on the top deck of the third ever SAL 380 flight to LHR. We found that the two rear business class toilets were used by both business and economy travellers. And having read your comments I don’t blame them. We thought it was inadequate having three toilets for 60 business class travellers, particularly with the pressure on two of them from economy. We did report our views strongly to SAL.
It seems the usually methodical SAL simply got this wrong.
Yesterday we flew business on SQ319 from LHR and after getting over my usual quip about somebody’s nicked two of the engines, found it more pleasant than the 380. Three toilets including one of Disabled size for total of 42 business class passengers. Economy class has 6 toilets for 228 passengers which is 1 for every 36 passengers which I make about 20% better. Yes, the 380 design is wrong. Ian