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Join Telegram ChannelA traveler took to social media to explain why other passengers on flights were not disposing of their rubbish properly – and shared a way to fix the problem.
Posted on the forum “r/SouthwestAirlines,” the note was titled “Favorite tip of people who put trash in seatback pockets.”
The user said they saw an “alarming number of people” not handing their trash over to flight attendants to collect before the plane lands.
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“While waiting to disembark, I'll mention, 'Hey, I think you left your AirPods in the back pocket,' which forces them to recognize the trash can,” the person wrote.
The user added: “The 4 times I've done this, 2 times they took the trash, once the guy said 'I don't own an AirPod,' and the last one said it doesn't It wasn't his job.”
A Reddit user shared a tip to encourage other passengers to throw away their trash instead of putting it in the back pocket of an airplane seat. (iStock)
“Just a suggestion that has a 50% success rate so far,” the post reads.
Fox News Digital reached out to Southwest Airlines for comment.
Users took to the comments section of the post to discuss the issue.
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“They need to pass around a trash drive like they do the church money drive – for the same reason. Guilt people by filling them up as they go by. Problem solved,” one person suggested.
“There will always be idiots/morons/morons who don’t care,” said another.
A Texas-based travel industry expert told Fox News Digital that trash is often scattered in flight seatback pockets and left on the floor. (iStock)
This same person added: “Often [it’s] the same people who will complain when they board and find trash that went undetected. »
One Reddit user commented: “Not me, but someone I worked with… Coming to pick up trash, a guy has a bunch of newspapers in the seat back pocket. “Hey, it's waste, or are you going to keep it?” Him: 'I'll keep it.'
“Well we land, the guy leaves leaving the newspaper,” the person added.
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Continuing the story, the user wrote: “FA [flight attendant]now putting the plane away, sees this, grabs everything, runs onto the jetway and runs through the terminal yelling, “YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR DIARY!! YOU SAID YOU WANT TO KEEP IT, IT MUST BE IMPORTANT TO YOU!!' until she caught up with the guy and gave him back his paper.'”
“Passive-aggressive communication at its best,” said one user.
Airlines “need to do a trash collection like they do the church money collection – for the same reason. Make people feel guilty about filling them up along the way. Problem solved,” one person suggested on the social media social. (iStock)
Gary Leff, a Texas-based travel industry expert and author of the blog “View From the Wing,” told Fox News Digital that trash is often scattered in seat pockets and left on the floor.
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“Increasingly, carriers spend little time cleaning between flights. They don't schedule planes with enough ground time to do it – and when a flight is late, it's one of the first things that gets removed,” Leff said.
“Cleaning up after yourself is a fundamental starting point for civil society.”
It's important, he stressed, that passengers at least hand their trash to flight attendants when they come down the aisle to collect it.
“Cleaning up after yourself is a fundamental starting point for civil society,” Leff said.
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“You must do this at your seat on a plane, provided the airline makes it reasonably easy, by going down the aisle with a bag to pick up the trash and giving you plenty of time to pick it up – and you must doing in film too,” Leff said.
“Don’t just throw those bags of popcorn on the ground,” Leff added. “Carry them to the trash cans near the exit. It's only a few feet.”