So should we triple this advice when taking air travel?
Sometimes that relaxation goes too far: Comedian Nicole Byer recentlyfound an actual piece of poopin her plastic-wrapped blanket.
It can seem like a nebulous excuse, like telling your editor just tightening this story up!
when actually youve only written about 100 words.
So we asked some airlines: what does cleaning the flight actually entail?
That means picking up items from seats, seatbacks and cabin floors.
Flight attendants walk through the cabin to visually inspect and pick up junk in each row as needed.
Other crew members refresh the galleys and can mop the galley floor, if needed.
A typical cleaning turnaround is 30 to 40 minutes.
Both Southwest and Spirit dont offer seatback screens, so no worry about your foot-to-finger transmission there.
United is much bigger boy of the skies, with 4,900 daily flights to 355 destinations.
A spokesperson told us that between flights, crews focus on the bathrooms and galley.
Then each night, tray tables and armrests are wiped down and disinfected and floors are vacuumed.
Tray tables and seatback monitors are, in fact, cleaned after every flight.
