DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Oct 31, 2019, 11:00 pm
#691
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: A3*G,BA Silver
Posts: 2,012
Just sat on the AA PHL to MAN in Business. Taking great amazement in watching a lady use around 4327 wet wipes to clean half the cabin around her.... I've seen people do the tray table and stuff before but she's doing the air vents and everything, virtually dismantling parts of it.
Just as I'm in total wonderment thinking this is a little excessive the bloke sat across the aisle from me, no connection to her, replicates the behaviour almost identically.
All I can think is they must all have really weak Immune systems or I'm just a dirty, lazy oaf as I can't be arsed to clean any of it.....
Just as I'm in total wonderment thinking this is a little excessive the bloke sat across the aisle from me, no connection to her, replicates the behaviour almost identically.
All I can think is they must all have really weak Immune systems or I'm just a dirty, lazy oaf as I can't be arsed to clean any of it.....
Oct 31, 2019, 11:27 pm
#692
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: NT Australia
Programs: QF WP
Posts: 4,160
There was an couple on my last VFA flight doing something similar- at boarding wiped down all surfaces including the seat and the tray table, which was in the arm rest. However failed to wipe down any of the internal surfaces of the arm rest assembly, which I imagine is absolutely crawling with bacteria. Then folded up the now clean tray table and put back into the microbiological soup.
I’m pleased to hear it’s a worldwide thing and not just a DYKWIA (don’t you know we’re in Africa? People get sick in Africa from African diseases...)
I’m pleased to hear it’s a worldwide thing and not just a DYKWIA (don’t you know we’re in Africa? People get sick in Africa from African diseases...)
Nov 1, 2019, 12:59 am
#693
Join Date: Nov 2004
Programs: BA GGL, LH FTL
Posts: 3,578
Just sat on the AA PHL to MAN in Business. Taking great amazement in watching a lady use around 4327 wet wipes to clean half the cabin around her.... I've seen people do the tray table and stuff before but she's doing the air vents and everything, virtually dismantling parts of it.
I had to cough on take off and this triggered a very nervous head turning by the lady.
Unfortunately I can be a bit childish. I may have had multiple smaller cough attacks throughout the flight. at the end of the flight said lady was taking her time walking up the jet way into the terminal, holding everyone up. Another cough attack resolved this quickly.
I have since returned to being a mature and reasonable adult. Mostly.
Nov 1, 2019, 1:27 am
#694
Join Date: Oct 2013
Programs: BA Gold, VS Gold, IHG Platinum, Hilton Gold, Hertz Presidents Circle.
Posts: 1,448
Had the same thing on a AA MIA-CLT about two weeks ago.
I had to cough on take off and this triggered a very nervous head turning by the lady.
Unfortunately I can be a bit childish. I may have had multiple smaller cough attacks throughout the flight. at the end of the flight said lady was taking her time walking up the jet way into the terminal, holding everyone up. Another cough attack resolved this quickly.
I have since returned to being a mature and reasonable adult. Mostly.
I had to cough on take off and this triggered a very nervous head turning by the lady.
Unfortunately I can be a bit childish. I may have had multiple smaller cough attacks throughout the flight. at the end of the flight said lady was taking her time walking up the jet way into the terminal, holding everyone up. Another cough attack resolved this quickly.
I have since returned to being a mature and reasonable adult. Mostly.
Nov 1, 2019, 4:16 am
#695
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: EDI
Programs: AA: Life time PLT; HH Diamond
Posts: 336
Nov 1, 2019, 4:30 am
#696
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC GGL, HH DIAMOND, AVIS Presidents Club, Karahi Express
Posts: 1,229
Nov 1, 2019, 6:10 am
#698
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC GGL, HH DIAMOND, AVIS Presidents Club, Karahi Express
Posts: 1,229
Nov 1, 2019, 7:03 am
#701
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC GGL, HH DIAMOND, AVIS Presidents Club, Karahi Express
Posts: 1,229
Nov 1, 2019, 7:17 am
#702
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,644
Presumably something marking an Acceptable Deferred Defect.
Nov 1, 2019, 9:02 am
#703
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Bristol
Programs: BA GGL, UA Plat, DL Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,380
I think the wiping down thing is a bit silly tbh.
Far better to use a barrier method (e.g. surgical gloves) to ensure that your hand bacteria don't get a free ride on the bread roll...
Or just accept that, rare pathogens aside, it's actually quite good for you to be exposed to a variety of biomes
I speak as one who has flown several hundred sectors in the last few years and never once been sick...
Far better to use a barrier method (e.g. surgical gloves) to ensure that your hand bacteria don't get a free ride on the bread roll...
Or just accept that, rare pathogens aside, it's actually quite good for you to be exposed to a variety of biomes
I speak as one who has flown several hundred sectors in the last few years and never once been sick...
Nov 1, 2019, 9:05 am
#704
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: TPA/ABZ
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold. GGL/CCR.
Posts: 13,250
Nov 1, 2019, 9:44 am
#705
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,756
Am I the only one bored with reading about pyjamas and wet ones on this thread? Where are the DYKWIA stories? Or is everyone behaving themselves these days?
