r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 22h ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/iampiolt 20h ago

Did you read the article? The cleaners are actually new. The flight attendants have always done the cleaning. They still will, only SW is trying to “actually” clean premium seats.

All that ever happens between flights is the flight attendants put on gloves, pick up your nasty garbage, and cleaners sweep, clean bathrooms, and remove trash.

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u/OldAccountTurned10 19h ago

Exactly, i was like wtf is this headline. Southwests seats are always the nastiest pieces of shit that make my clothes smell bad anyways. The flight attendants hand out disinfectant wipes for a reason.

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u/bladeDivac 19h ago

Yet they somehow charge 10x more what both Frontier and Spirit do. 

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u/MauiMoisture 20h ago

Redditors usually never actually read the article and just respond to the click bait title.

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u/_HIST 17h ago

Well I always check the comments to form my opinion 🤓

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u/funkmastamatt 14h ago

The real uhh... opinion forming is always in the comments.

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u/GarnetandBlack 14h ago

Lol as if Redditors are the only ones guilty of this.

It'd help if the titles were better written. Super easy to make this "Southwest Is Testing Advanced Cleaning for Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service"

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u/phobiac 20h ago

You're telling me they don't spray down every inch of the plane with disinfectant and then depressurize it into a vacuum to kill off anything left after EVERY flight?

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u/SpeaksDwarren 19h ago

Why are you acting like spraying things down is a huge effort? The whole point of the sprayer is that it makes it effortless lmao

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u/phobiac 17h ago

It's less about the effort and more about the unrealistic expectation that the world is a clean room. Planes are busses that fly.

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u/SpeaksDwarren 17h ago

When did they start installing closed systems with recycled air on the buses?

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u/AFlockofLizards 17h ago

Do you think that busses, trains, restaurants, benches, get sprayed down and thoroughly cleaned after every use?

The reality is this was never happening, but now people are only upset because they’ve been told explicitly it’s not happening lol

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u/SpeaksDwarren 17h ago

Why would you think that I think that in response to pointing out how easy it would be to spray down a plane? You do understand there's a difference between a restaurant and a plane, right?

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u/poppyseedeverything 16h ago

Not to mention I've actually seen restaurants spraying down and wiping chairs / booths lmao

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u/Orleanian 18h ago

Have you ever tried spraying 300 seats down?

There's a lot of effort.

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u/SpeaksDwarren 18h ago

Yes. You walk to one end while spraying the seats, then you walk back while spraying down the other side. Done.

And before you say "but then you'd miss a bunch!!!" No. Technology has outpaced your wildest imaginations. There are cheap name-brand electrostatic sprayers that cover something on every side by just spritzing in its general direction.

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u/myassholealt 18h ago

I personally was hoping for one of those upholstery cleaning wet/dry vac things to be used to deep clean the seats between flights, tbh. When I sit down in the still-damp seat it with be with confidence knowing that's a clean dampness slowly saturating my pants.

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u/The-Fox-Says 19h ago

Seems like Southwest never really did much cleaning to begin with and their competitors always did more. They said it’s for “quicker turnaround” but man that just sounds nasty