Getting a flight can be so exciting, as you’re looking forward to being at your end destination – but there are some things you should avoid while flying.
Cabin crew member @cierra_mistt shared on TikTok the “flight attendant secrets you need to know” so you can avoid making mistakes on your next trip.
The first thing she urged you not to do is “use the toilet paper” when you go to the bathroom on a plane.
Don’t panic, it doesn’t mean you have to sit there for five minutes drip drying, she just urged people to “use the paper towels” as an alternative.
“It’s higher quality and it won’t rip or dissolve like the toiler paper will,” she said.
Next up was advice to “not walk barefoot to the bathroom” like many plane passengers do.
“I can promise you the liquid on the floor is not water and you do not want to be stepping in it,” Cierra shared. “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 admitted the cleaners who are hired to scrub the plane after a flight “don’t do a deep clean like you think they do”.
“They only did that during Covid and the only things they really deep-cleaned were the tray tables and the seatbelts,” she shared.
Cierra said: “Nowadays it’s more of a tidy up and getting the trash off the floor.”
She also said if you’re handed a hygiene wipe when you’re getting on the plane, don’t use it to clean the tray table, as they’ve likely been cleaned recently.
The flight attendant urged people to instead clean the window because, like the bathroom, they never get touched.
In the comments, someone wrote: “Sooooo planes are dirty, got it.”
Another admitted: “Oh sweety, I walk with hospital grade wipes.”