Taking a flight can be thrilling, as you anticipate reaching your final destination – but there are certain things you should steer clear of while in the air.
Cabin crew member @cierra_mistt has divulged “flight attendant secrets you need to know,” so you can sidestep blunders during your journey. The first thing she strongly advised against is “using the toilet paper” when you visit the loo on an aircraft.
Don’t fret, it doesn’t imply you have to sit there for five minutes drip drying, she simply encouraged people to “use the paper towels” as a substitute. “It’s higher quality and it won’t rip or dissolve like the toilet paper will,” she explained.
Next was a suggestion to “not walk barefoot to the bathroom” as many plane passengers do. “I can assure you the liquid on the floor is not water and you do not want to be stepping in it,” Cierra revealed. “Not to mention that bathroom never gets cleaned unless it’s bad enough that we have to close it off for the rest of the flight.”
She also conceded the cleaners who are employed to tidy up the plane post-flight “don’t do a deep clean like you think they do”. She disclosed: “They only did that during Covid and the only things they really deep-cleaned were the tray tables and the seatbelts.”
Cierra stated: “Nowadays it’s more of a tidy up and getting the trash off the floor.”
She also advised against using the hygiene wipes provided when boarding to clean the tray tables, as they are likely to have been recently sanitised. Instead, she recommended using them to wipe down the windows, which, like the bathrooms, tend to be neglected in the cleaning process.
One commenter responded with a tongue-in-cheek remark, saying: “Sooooo planes are dirty, got it.” Another commenter took a more extreme approach, confessing: “Oh sweety, I walk with hospital grade wipes.”