'Refreshing the parts others can't reach'

Japan's All Nippon Airways will install bidets as standard in its fleet of 787 Dreamliners when they start flying next year, in a bid to attract more fastidious passengers from its home country, where the "washlet" is commonplace.

The combination bidet-toilets will "refresh the parts other airlines cannot reach", ANA chief executive Mineo Yamamoto said in Seattle. He was speaking hours before the first 787 was unveiled at Boeing’s nearby plant in Everett, Washington. The bidet is a standard fixture in about 60 per cent of Japanese households, according to a survey by the country's Cabinet Office.