I heard they don't wash the blankets, just fold them up and repackage them. I also heard they have pathogens on them! Can this be true?
2006-08-15 11:04:08 · 9 answers · asked by sheena S 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
No, it's not true! Opened blankets are swapped out when they service the plane between flights. They are sent to a laundry and cleaned, sanitized, and repackaged. Just like hotels clean the towels and sheets in your hotel rooom.
(OK, the comforter is another matter. Don't get me going on that!)
2006-08-15 14:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They should, for the price they charge for a ticket. But hotels don't wash bedspreads either. They showed a special on 48 hours once where they went into some major hotels with a black light and dna kit, and found body fluids on all the beds tested.
2006-08-15 11:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by Leroy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am guessing that does not happen very often if ever. The two dirtiest things I know of are an airplane blanket and a hotel bedspread. You would find fewer germs on a toilet seat.
2006-08-15 11:12:34 · answer #3 · answered by united9198 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are typicaly clean. Pathogens, well it is possible. Depending upon the person who handed it to you, or while stowing items above the touched the blankets... it is possible. But I think you are rather safe.... I would be more conserned about the toilet onboard than the blanket. 8)
2006-08-15 13:09:51 · answer #4 · answered by Dport 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably as often as they wash the comforters at hotels....never...
2006-08-15 11:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by sugapeach_2000 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes if they didn't some poeple could get sick from the skin cells the previous people left
2006-08-15 11:09:19 · answer #6 · answered by Charmagne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do wash them.
2006-08-15 11:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Ironball 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
could be
2006-08-15 11:10:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, you idiot!
2006-08-15 11:53:30 · answer #9 · answered by katiej47 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋