Next time your kid locks him/herself in the airplane bathroom, or you just feel like being particularly creepy with a stranger, here's how you can easily unlock an airplane lavatory with nothing but your finger.


Simple travel search tool Hipmunk shares a bunch of great travel tips on their blog (and with us). Today, they show us how to unlock an airplane lavatory door from the outside:

Step 1: Approach locked lavatory

Step 2: Lift "LAVATORY" sign

Step 3: Slide the knob into the unlocked position

Step 4: Cackle because you've just unlocked the bathroom from the outside

That's all there is to it. Kind of unsettling, right?

HowTo: Unlock the airplane lavatory door (from the outside) [Hipmunk Blog]