Ironic. Howard Hughes, one of the most famous germphobes, once owned TWA.
Posted on 07/15/2022 12:54:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
' A cabin crew members has listed things travellers should be careful of during their flight
A flight attendant has issued a warning to people who fall asleep on a plane.
While many people like to relax during their travel and take a nap throughout their flight, a flight attendant warned those sitting by the window to be careful as some parts of the plane are dirtier than others. Tommy Cimato said: "Do not fall asleep or lean your head on the window.
He warned that you never knew how many people had done the same and whether the window had been cleaned or not. He added: “You are not the only one that has done that and you don't know how many people or children have wiped their hands or other things all over the window.” - as Mirror Online reports.
Tommy also advised holidaymakers to not wear shorts on a flight. While jetsetters opt for shorts on a plane due to increased levels of comfort, the cabin crew members warned a plane can be incredibly unhygienic so its best to avoid as much direct contact as possible
He added: "Don’t or try not to wear shorts when you're on an airplane. It's the same thing as the window – you never know how clean it's going to be, so if you have pants, you're going to have less germs.”
Tommy also warned people against pressing the toilet flush button on planes. He said: "He said: “Do not ever touch the flush button with your bare hands. It's honestly just super unsanitary and pretty gross, so when you flush, use a napkin or tissue that's in the lavatory.”
Just as often as ranchers clean the cow pastures.
“There was a time when seasoned travelers dressed better than the other passengers,”
There was a better time when, flying was for the upper middle and upper classes. It was expensive and priced the plebs and rabble out. Men wore suits and ties, women were in formal dresses you could smoke in the flight with real food and real metal silverware including steak knives. Then the airlines went to targeting the masses and we have the flying cattle cars of the sky full of ugly Americans and their F trophies. It’s shameful what flying has become.
As Yoda would say there is another way and it is worth every penny.
Semiprivate flights, you go to their private security entrance it takes 5 min and no one makes you take your shoes off nor wants to feel you up. It’s a metal detector or a wand. They have a private lounges area with a bar away from the plebs it’s bliss. On landing you are taken to a private FBO where they personally hand you your luggage no trying to beat back the rabble at the baggage carousel and if you are like myself and fly with expensive golf clubs and firearms in the regular hand to hand baggage is a required feature they even have black car services waiting at your destination to take you the last mile no taxis or uber needed. Like I said worth every penny and it’s how flying should be. Now bring back smoking and real martini glasses and we are in the money.
For a higher price point as in get a few friends who want to go to Europe or Vegas together and go for the charter with netjets or Uberjets
Don’t touch anything in their filthy airplanes 🤪
I have a cousin who went down in the L-1011 that crashed in the Everglades in the 70’s. Broke her back, and spent a long time in the hospital, but she made it.
ha!
COVID is a COLD for God’s sake, what the hell is wrong with people?? The ONLY people who are effected by this are OBESE and the elderly!! The SAME damn people who are effected by the flu or the MANY other viruses and heart diseases going around!! ANYONE looking around at our society now CAN SEE how OBESE our population had become it is disgusting AND another reason EBT cards are extremely harmful!!! When I was young young women REALLY CARED about their figures AND appearance young women today don’t give a damn!! It is NO WONDER the marriage rates are plunging who the hell would marry a 22 year old OBESE COW, who doesn’t give a damn about her appearance, can you even imagine how the hell she would upkeep a home!!
I always grab my carts from the cart corral outside. I take the ones that have been sitting in the sun the longest.
UV disinfects wonderfully.
i use the ones with the flip down section but i wipe it on both sides, and i wipe the bar you push the cart with.
Otherwise who knows between baby diapers and small doggies asses.
Howard Hughes’ legendary germ-phobia was considered kooky in his day—now it has gone mainstream apparently.
In my experience, the US air fleet is the most disgustingly vile carriers in the business. US carriers allow matrons to keep working until they’re in, what, their mid 70’s?
Flying domestic is just like being locked in a toilet with a wild Buffalo. You won’t see such disrespect toward the passengers on competent and classy carriers like Air China or Phlippine Airways. Or even Aero Mexico.
One of my favorite Dennis Miller rants:
And exactly when did stewardesses in this country get so f_cking
cranky? I know it’s a tough job — there’s got to be a thousand
different ways to tie that neckerchief, but why piss on me, huh? You
know, the worst thing about it is they don’t even come clean with you
and tell you how much they hate you. They treat you with that highly
contrived air of mock civility, that tight, pursed-lip grin where they
nod agreement with everything you say. You know right behind that
face plate they barely tolerate your very existence. I’d rather they
just come out in the open and say, “Hey, listen, _sshole: when I was
eighteen years old, I made a horrible vocational error, all right? I
turned in my entire adult life for cheap airfare to Barbados. Now
I’ve got hair with the tensile strength of Elsa Lanchester in ‘Bride
of Frankenstein.’ I haven’t met Mr. Right. I’m a waitress in a bad
restaurant at thirty thousand feet. Jam your Diet Slice up your _ss,
all right?” At least show me something. Come down the aisle like the
old broad in ‘From Russia with Love’ with the knife point coming out
of her shoe. “Peanuts, Mr. Bond?”
In fact, public areas are probably cleaner than most private homes.
Public areas get cleaned professionally and more frequently than the average home.
There’s no end to the hazards out there —everywhere — and that’s why I tend not to dwell on them. Otherwise I would wind up like Howard Hughes. It’s one thing to actually see the schmutz, but what if you don’t see anything? Take reasonable precautions and be of good cheer, I say.
The one time I know for sure I got sick from a plane was when a woman in front of me hacked all the way from Chicago to Philadelphia. Five days later, right before my return flight, I started feeling sick and was sick as a dog for the better part of a week.
Just bring some cleaner and wipe down the window area before nodding off.
I never understood the sticky bathroom sink counters in airplanes.
You mean the plane which had on manifest ¤
- one of the top US Navy surface warfare officers
- 3 or 4 molecular biologist working for some of the world’s most advanced bio research
- 3 or 4 senior investment bankers, including from New York and Israel, 1 was Israeli involved in global projects from the US
- a high profile Muslim MD from Gross Point and Dearborn Michigan, who some believe was heavily involved with the Muslim Brotherhood...
There were many very interesting people on that plane, just from their stated titles. Others had job titles redacted, a couple were family members of European politicians.
And hundreds of witness accounts of a missile moving very fast into the sky and then a mid air explosion.
You mean that flight —
If the planes are going to be that dirty & we already know they are mostly too uncomfortable to sleep on....why bother even getting on one? That is if your flight hasn’t already been canceled or delayed.
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