Flights offer a range of seating – but some plane seats are cleaner than others, it has been shown. A plane passenger travelling with Air Canada has revealed the difference in hygiene on board. A viral video of the traveller shows her cleaning the headrests of an aisle seat, middle seat and a window seat. The alarming clip has revealed the difference between the three seating options.
The plane window seat may well afford the best views but it also has the dirtiest headrest, according to the video.
The video shows the female Air Canada passenger using an alcohol-based sanitation wipe.
She cleans the headrests of all three seats but it’s the plane window seat that is the dirtiest.
The wipe for that seat’s headrest is far blacker than either of the other two.
The middle seat was the second dirtiest and the aisle plane seat the least filthy.
It is suggested in the footage that the aisle seat is easier to clean which is why the window seat has been neglected.
Model Naomi Campbell has previously advocated cleaning around plane seats whilst boarding the aircraft.
A video on her YouTube channel shows the star donning a pair of latex gloves and wielding a pack of Dettol antibacterial wipes.
Campbell proceeds to clean absolutely everything around her business class seat on the Qatar Airlines flight.
The model wipes her TV screen and controller, the table, armrests, the seat – no surface in her vicinity is left untouched by the Dettol wipes.
“This is what I do on every plane I get on,” Campbell explains as she busts the germs.
A study by Insurancequotes.com last year showed a tray table had 11.595 germ colony-forming units (CFUs), making it the second dirtiest commonly used area of the plane.
The first was the flush button on the toilet seat, which had over 95,000 CFUs.
Meanwhile, in airports, the dirtiest place is the self-check-in kiosk, according to research by Insurance Quotes. This requires passengers to use a screen.
The self check-in kiosk contained an average of 253,857 CFU (bacteria and fungal cells per square inch). In fact, just one self-check-in screen recorded over one million CFU.
A shocking viral video has captured a plane passenger on a Qatar Airways flight performing a rather unhygienic move.
The clip shows the male flier sneezing into his airline blanket and then wiping his nose on it.