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Flight crew are there first and foremost for your safety. That is what they are trained for. Their primary job is not to be janitors or servers, though they obv
by standardUser 4y ago
Flight crew are there first and foremost for your safety. That is what they are trained for. Their primary job is not to be janitors or servers, though they obviously play those roles to some degree. If it wasn't for the safety requirements, we'd likely have a single overworked staff member to handle food and drink service (at least on mid-size flights).
But yeah, planes are a bit gross, and I bring wipes with me for the arm rests and touch screen. Of course the best thing we could all do is to simply clean up after ourselves, which should be easy for all the non-idiots out there. They don't come around to collect trash 4-5 times per flight for the fun of it. They're trying to make it easy for you, and they do.
- version_five 4y agoThis attitude is stupid (sorry). If I value a clean plane, I don't care what the supposed role of the flight crew is. The issue is that the carrier doesn't have someone cleaning the plane. It's not my job as a customer to debate who should do it, nor is it to pontificate about how hypothetically we should all do better and keep the plane clean. These low cost carriers have determined that having a clean plane is not important to their revenue, and so they don't. Discussion about the crew being there "for my safety" and not to clean accomplishes nothing, it's just a kind of empty internet point that gets brought up
- lotsofpulp 4y ago> These low cost carriers have determined that having a clean plane is not important to their revenue, and so they don't. Another perspective is these low cost carriers have determined sufficient passengers in their target market are not willing or able to pay sufficiently higher prices to have that level of cleaning before each flight.
- dmix 4y agoI get the whole bottom of the barrel market thing but cleaning between flight still seems like something that wouldn't be a huge expense? Maybe it costs a lot more for time on the tarmac or something?
- chadlavi 4y agoYou become a RyanAir by cutting everything you can get away with. All those not-huge expenses bundled together represent a significant increase in profit margin.
- hunterb123 4y agoI don't think GP's attitude was stupid, though I do think your response was (sorry). For those of us who have always known planes are filthy and not wiped down, we carry a sanitizing wet wipe. Btw it's not just low cost carriers, the dirtiest planes I've found are the larger carriers. Your health is your responsibility foremost. Later in life you'll find noone else is looking out for you more than you. TLDR: sanitize key objects before touching or your hands after if you're that concerned. TV remotes in hotels, trays in planes, after touching gas pumps etc.