The truth about the dirtiness of aeroplanes
Aeroplanes are harbouring various germs with deadly bacteria including MRSA and E. coli surviving for multiple days.
The Sun have reported that the best way to ensure your flight is as clean as possible, you need to take the earliest flight available.
Industry insiders have explained that deep cleans only occur on planes overnight and some airlines do not wash their blankets before handing them out on the next flight.
That means that multiple people could have been using your blanket depending on how many flights the plane has been on that day.
Sara Keagle, a flight attendant and founder of TheFlyingPinto.com, said that in the Economy Class cabins of the flight she works, clean blankets are only given to passengers on the first flight of the day.
A flight attendant on Reddit said, “Those blankets and pillows? Yeah, those just get refolded and stuffed back in the bins between flights.”
“Only fresh ones I ever saw were on an originating first flight in the morning in a provisioning city.”
It is best to book your flight first thing in the morning as the general cleanliness of the plane will be better at that time as well.
The deep-clean happens overnight which includes a team of cleaners wiping down seats and trays with disinfectants and scrubbing the bathroom.
Every airline has some level of cleaning between each flight but this generally just includes collecting rubbish and vacuuming.