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Shame, it's a beautiful kit. Plus the 747 has personal air fans to tune your cooling. The modern planes tend to have done away with those, meaning you're usually too cold or too hot.

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On the other hand, you get higher air pressure, quieter engines, larger windows and MUCH larger bathrooms on the new planes. I choose flights so I can get the 787 whenever possible. Nice plane.

I think the larger bathrooms is an interior config. The airline can design the size of the bathroom.

One of my favorite bathroom configs is on the Lufthansa A340, where they have a lower deck (intruding into the cargo space) with a bunch of lavatories.

I also like the business class ANA 787 bathrooms with the washlet (bidet) toilets.

I believe ANA has bidet toilets set up in all their bathrooms, not just Business.

They weren't when I flew, but that was when they has just gotten deliveries and were still using them on domestic routes, so things may have changed. Now their domestic 787s are the most bare-bone interiors you've ever seen, without even IFE.

Yep, I find I feel noticeably less jet-lagged and tired when stepping off a 787 versus the usual 737 or A320.

Recently flew a 747 (Lufthansa) which had no personal vents.

Before this, flew Mid East carriers (Etihad, Emirates, Qatar) and they all had those vents.

I think it’s specific to an airline .

I thought those vents were standard everywhere until I was on a SAS A340 that didn’t have them.

The Lufthansa 747s are likely the more recent 747-8 model

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