Flight attendant reveals the gross mistake passengers make in the plane bathroom
A FLIGHT attendant has revealed a mistake that passengers make in aeroplane toilets – and it’s not something most people want to hear.
Plane bathrooms aren’t the cleanest places anyway, but most passengers end up making them even worse with their inconsiderate behaviour.
It turns out that cabin crew members actually expect the people on their flights to clean the toilet every time they use it.
Otherwise it can very quickly become messy and unhygienic.
In an article for Travel + Leisure, former flight attendant Jo Jo Harder explained what the basic expectations are for passengers.
She said: “Passengers should wipe off the toilet seat and basin, then discard paper towels in a trash container.”
Not all passengers are as dirty as others, however, with men apparently making more of a mess in plane toilets than women.
By standing up to pee instead of sitting down, they’re vastly increasing their chances of missing the target, which makes things far worse for other passengers who have to go in after them.
A former airline pilot previously told men to forget about feeling macho, in certain instances, and agreed that sitting is a much better option when flying.
On a Quora thread titled “How easy is it for men to pee aboard a moving airplane?” he wrote: “On a smooth flight, using the lavatory in the traditional, manly way is pretty easy.
“It’s about the same as peeing in a phone booth, if you’re inclined to do that sort of thing. It’s tight confines but certainly easy enough, especially if you’re tall enough to lean forward a little and rest your forehead against the curved side of the fuselage.
“At the risk of seeming ‘un-manly,’ the prudent thing to do during turbulence is to sit down to pee.
“Otherwise there is a high risk of things getting out of control, so to speak, and causing pee to go everywhere including on yourself. Forget the macho bit, nobody’s watching anyway.”
Pee on plane floors is one of the main reasons passengers are warned about going barefoot on flights.
One flight attendant said: “I promise you, nine times out of 10, that is not water on the floor.
“The toilets are often absolutely disgusting and get deep cleaned only at the end of a route, for us this could be from one side of the world to the other.
“Imagine how lovely they are at the end of a 12 hour flight with 200 people using them.”
Meanwhile, another flight attendant revealed the passenger toilet habits that she hates having to deal with during flights.
And this is the worst thing you can do in a toilet while on a flight.