IsleSeat
Apr 3, 07, 1:48 pm
This has been too long on my mind and I can no longer resist asking the forum.
Who knows or has experience or has a video source about aircraft cleaning (interior, of course) after long haul flights? Often I wonder, traveling around the globe, when I finally leave a wide-body aricraft about the mess on the floor, the newspapers, crackers, plastic cups, rice grains and soy sauce and whatever else all over the floor and also stuck in-between seats, in in-seat nets etc. And then, sometimes not even 30 minutes later, the same aircraft is boarding passengers for another journey and the aircraft cabin is as if nothing had happened.
Where did the Red Wine stains go, the marmelade in the seats, the mustard on the door knob, the sate sticks glued together with peanut sauce, the nuts stuck in the IFE and the spilled perfume from duty-free?
One reason why I ask is, that on one occation going from LAX to FRA in C-class, I approached my seat and removed the obligatory blue pillow in the center and found a wine glass -yes, a wine glass- completely un-used and clean, neatly right behind the pillow in the seat. It made me wonder about what could have happened if I had taken my seat without precaution...
It is either that I must praise whoever cleans these difficult planes or does this with a crew and such an incredible speed/accuracy and makes me wonder about the procedure each time I get into a clean aircraft.
And then comes the question of 'cleaning quality', are there different contractors for different airlines? Say in San Francisco, for example, is it the same cleaning crew cleaning a LH 747 than does a UA from HKG?
However the whole procedure goes -I don't know how-, the act of getting rid of all of the garbage and soiling must go along with a whole army of folks entering in while some 300+ passengers are still getting out - to get the plane cleaned up before the next load comes in.
And this brings this subject to the open and I cannot wait to hear what you all found from previous routes in your seats, front nets and whereever else you looked.
Who knows or has experience or has a video source about aircraft cleaning (interior, of course) after long haul flights? Often I wonder, traveling around the globe, when I finally leave a wide-body aricraft about the mess on the floor, the newspapers, crackers, plastic cups, rice grains and soy sauce and whatever else all over the floor and also stuck in-between seats, in in-seat nets etc. And then, sometimes not even 30 minutes later, the same aircraft is boarding passengers for another journey and the aircraft cabin is as if nothing had happened.
Where did the Red Wine stains go, the marmelade in the seats, the mustard on the door knob, the sate sticks glued together with peanut sauce, the nuts stuck in the IFE and the spilled perfume from duty-free?
One reason why I ask is, that on one occation going from LAX to FRA in C-class, I approached my seat and removed the obligatory blue pillow in the center and found a wine glass -yes, a wine glass- completely un-used and clean, neatly right behind the pillow in the seat. It made me wonder about what could have happened if I had taken my seat without precaution...
It is either that I must praise whoever cleans these difficult planes or does this with a crew and such an incredible speed/accuracy and makes me wonder about the procedure each time I get into a clean aircraft.
And then comes the question of 'cleaning quality', are there different contractors for different airlines? Say in San Francisco, for example, is it the same cleaning crew cleaning a LH 747 than does a UA from HKG?
However the whole procedure goes -I don't know how-, the act of getting rid of all of the garbage and soiling must go along with a whole army of folks entering in while some 300+ passengers are still getting out - to get the plane cleaned up before the next load comes in.
And this brings this subject to the open and I cannot wait to hear what you all found from previous routes in your seats, front nets and whereever else you looked.