An American flight attendant has shared the “most heinous, evil, diabolical” things passengers do on planes – including the gross reason other travellers on a flight once had to miss out on food.
Cher from Dallas, Texas has been a flight attendant for five years and uses her TikTok @cherdallas to give people a behind-the-scenes look into the intriguing profession.
Her latest instalment of the worst things you can do on a plane might make you gag.
Cher said you should never choose to board a plane already feeling nauseous or sick.
“I see it all the time where somebody gets on board knowing that they’re not feeling well and as soon as we hit altitude they feel so much worse and they’re vomiting uncontrollably or other things are coming out of them uncontrollably,” she said.
“I’ve had it once where a guy came to the back and he leaned over the service cart and vomited into the service cart.
“He flew knowing he was sick before that and then now nobody gets food or drink during their flight because it’s covered in some man’s vomit.”
Cher said cabin crew were there to care for you if you are sick, but it was better for the ill passenger and the comfort of others to take another flight when they feel better.
She said motion sickness once in the air was a different story and totally understandable.
Watching the video, flyers were quick to point fingers at airlines for forcing people to travel sick when they could not afford to cancel their flight.
“It’s also evil that you can’t get a refund for not flying when you’re sick,” quipped one person.
“But what are you supposed to do if you’re sick? The airline won’t refund the flight or even change for free,” another comment read.
A retired airline employee added: “If the airlines made it easier to change for minor medical complaints, more people would not fly.”
“100% on the airline,” agreed another TikTok user. “If I lose the entire value of my ticket when I am sick I am going to fly regardless.”
“There needs to be a complete overhaul of the rules and laws and policies of airlines. It’s ridiculous,” wrote someone else.
Last year, a Delta flight famously had to return to the airport it departed after a passenger “had diarrhoea all the way through” the plane.
Around an hour into the journey, pilots on the long haul flight from Atlanta to Barcelona requested the plane turn back because the messy situation was a “biohazard issue”.
Cher said it was also evil for passengers to put any bottle with liquid into the overhead bin and men should not go to the toilet during turbulence because of the mess.
“This is why I say toilet roles are the most disgusting thing on a plane,” she said.
Travellers shared their own experiences of having water, sticky juice and even breast milk leak on to them from inside the overhead bins.
In a previous video in the series, which has been viewed almost one million times, Cher said it was evil to paint your nails, put your bare feet on a tray table, listen to anything out loud on your phone or laptop, and have the setting on your phone activated where the torch turns on with every notification.
Other travellers contributed pet hates like people wearing fragrances, clipping their nails and eating their own food with a strong smell.