INTRODUCTION

Travel on any airline these days and you may discover your seat comes with more than just the in-flight magazine. With flight attendants doubling up as the cleaning crew, passengers are finding themselves trapped for hours in someone else's mess.

Airlines are pushing the limits to meet the needs of back-to-back flights as well as trying to cut their costs. Most airline attendants are expected to quickly put the interior of the plane back to its original condition. Unfortunately, everything from seat pockets to lavatories sometimes go unchecked. You may find anything from used tissues stuffed into the seat back storage to Cheerios tucked into the cracks of your seat to gum stuck on the floor. You would almost think that you had sat down in a trashy movie theatre and not aboard a flight that probably cost you several hundred dollars!

Our intention is to give you some information that may help you on your travels. Hopefully this information will get back to the airlines and they will begin to "straighten up and fly right".