Turn time at the gate averages, maybe an hour, sometimes under 45 minutes.
This includes deplaning and boarding for the next flight. Go to a busy terminal during the day and sit at a gate area with a stopwatch and see for yourself.
How much cleaning on something the size of a 767 can be done in 20 minutes?
The aircraft do normally sit idle for 7 to 8 hours overnight, but they aren’t meticulously cleaned then, either. But they are cleaned better than during the day.
Meet the rudest, grossest airline passengers
By Sid Lipsey, Yahoo Travel
September 17, 2014 | 12:19pm
Meet the rudest, grossest airline passengers
Sitting near these passengers would be an in-flight nightmare. Photo: Instagram/Passenger Shaming
Attention, rude airline passengers who treat airplanes as their own personal lounging areas: Social media is coming for you.
Passenger Shaming on Instagram and Facebook is the latest trend in Internet shaming: It aims to shine the bright light of online justice on people whose rude, often gross airplane behavior makes the flying experience even more miserable for the rest of us.
The photos are submitted via email by anonymous flyers and flight attendants to PassengerShaming@gmail.com.
Judging from the pictures, there’s some weird version of a flying foot fetish going on.
The majority of pics on the site show people in bare feet — which they then put in places where they don’t belong.
Go to: http://nypost.com/2014/09/17/meet-the-rudest-grossest-airline-passengers-in-the-skies/
Years ago, I was working coach (former flight attendant) and the First Class flight attendant had to deal with a passenger who decided, as the fa was serving meals, that it was a fine time to change his baby’s diaper on the fold down tray as his seatmate, understandably upset, had just begun to dine.
I have been at an international gate, waiting to board, and have seen children from South American countries deplaning with obvious chicken pox bumps not yet scabbed - contagious.
Adding to the filthy planes, the illegals being shuttled around, undocumented and not vaccinated, and you have a seething petrie dish of a plague waiting to happen