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Southwest reduces aircraft cleaning between flights, focusing on tray tables over seat belts
Southwest Airlines cut back on its cleaning procedures as the Dallas-based airline returns to standard turnaround times. According to a Southwest memo to flight attendants obtained by USA TODAY, starting Aug. 1, the between-flight cleaning focused on high-touch areas such as the lavatories and tray tables, which are disinfected before each takeoff (top, bottom and latch of each table). "These are the most important areas to clean between each flight as they are prone to contamination from… (www.usatoday.com) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
For some reason I am reminded of a bar I frequented in my youth where we would say they cleaned the bathrooms once a year whether they needed it or not
WTH... this virus Is FAR FROM OVER.. and your going back to to normal cleaning.. big mistake!..
or lack thereof. I never saw anyone cleaning a tray table - except me with wet ones.
- The latest science says contaminated surfaces aren't a dominant risk consideration ; What matters is whether the lungs of your fellow passenger(s) are shedding coronavirus second by second, breath by breath during a multi-hour journey. Even a successful temperature scan will not identify an asymptomatic carrier. Interestingly, the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles football team just tested covid positive August 3, although he claims he has no symptoms (yet)
MANY PEOPLE ARE ASYMPTOMATIC...SPORTS TEAMS FROM PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL TO COLLEGE VARSITY ARE NOW GETTING BACK POSITIVE TESTS FOR THE CORONA VIRUS..YES,IT HAS BEEN STUDIED AND SHOWNN THE VIRUS SPREADS WITH "DROPLETS" FROM COUGHS,SNEEZES AND EVEN TALKING OR SINGING..IT HAS ALSO BEEN DISCOVERED THE VIRUS IN DROPLENTS CAN "HANG" IN THE AIR FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND NOT FALL ONTO SURFACES..WE STILL NEED TO BE VIGILANT WITH WEARING MASKS,WASHING HANDS AND YES,SANITIZING..I GUESS WHAT SOUTHWEST SHOULD DO NOW IS NOT ONLY HAND OUT MASKS,BUT GIVE PEOPLE PACKETS OF SANI WIPES TO WIPE DOWN THEIR OWN SEATS AND SEATBELTS..WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS TIME CONSTRAINTS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN KEEPING PASSENGERS SAFE..I MEAN, FOR GOSH SAKES,A SPRAY CAN OF LYSOL,A CLEAN CLOTH,AND MAYBE 2 OR 3 PEOPLE TO WPEE DOWN SEAT BELTS AND ARMRESTS WOULD NOT TAKE MORE TIME THAN THE USUAL "QUICK CLEAN" WHERE THEY JUST PICK UP GARBAGE AND GO..THIS IS A MISTAKE...
Some of your fellow posters might suspect that you're been cleaning your keyboard with cleaning fluid WAAY too often, AND MAYBE ALL THAT CLEANING FLUID HAS SHORTED OUT OR STUCK YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON, MAKING ALL YOUR MESSAGE ARE SCREAM IN ALL CAPS. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yikes, some Lysol leaked over to my own exclamation key.