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The passenger took to social media to discuss why fellow passengers on flights aren’t disposing of their trash properly — and shared a way to fix the problem.
Posted on the “r/SouthwestAirlines” forum, the message was titled “Favorite trick for people who put trash in seatback pockets.”
The user said he witnessed an “alarming amount of people” not handing their trash over to flight attendants for collection before the plane landed.
“While we are waiting to disembarkI’ll mention, ‘Hey, I think you left your AirPods in your pocket,’ which forces them to admit trash,” the person wrote.
The user added: “I’ve done this 4 times, 2 times they took the trash, once the guy said, ‘No own AirPods,’ and the last guy said it wasn’t his job.”
A Reddit user shared a tip on how 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 said.
Fox News Digital reached out to Southwest Airlines for their thoughts.
Users opened the comment section of the post to discuss the issue.
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“They have to blow up trash like they do fundraising in the church – for the same reason. Blaming people to fill it in as it passes. Problem solved,” one person suggested.
“There will always be idiots/morons/scumbags who just don’t care,” said another.
A Texas-based travel industry expert told Fox News Digital that trash is often thrown into seatback pockets on flights and left on the floor. (iStock)
That same person added: “Often [it’s] the same people who will protest when they get on board and find missed trash.”
One Redditor commented, “Not me, but someone I used to work with… Coming to pick up the trash, the guy has a stack of newspapers in his seatback pocket. ‘Hey, is that trash or are you going to keep it?’ He: ‘I’ll keep it.’
“Well, let’s land, the guy walks away leaving the newspaper,” the person added.
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Continuing the story, the user wrote: “FA [flight attendant]now clean up the plane, see this, grab everything, run up the track and through terminalscreaming, ‘YOU FORGOT YOUR NEWSPAPER!! YOU SAID YOU WANT TO KEEP HIM, IT MUST BE IMPORTANT TO YOU!!’ until she caught the guy and gave him the paper back.'”
“Passive-aggressive communication at its best,” said one user.
Airlines “should carry trash like they do for a church fundraiser – same reason. Blame people for filling it up as it goes by. Problem solved,” one person suggested on social media. (iStock)
Gary Leff, a Based in Texas travel industry expert and author of the blog “View From the Wing,” told Fox News Digital that trash is often thrown into seat pockets and left on the floor.
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“Carriers increasingly spend little time cleaning between flights. They don’t schedule planes with enough time on the ground to do it — and when a flight is delayed, it’s one of the first things that gets cut,” Leff said.
“Cleaning up after yourself is the basic starting point for civil society.”
It’s important, he noted, that passengers at least hand their trash over to flight attendants as they come down the aisle to pick it up.
“Cleaning up after yourself is a basic starting point for a civil society,” Leff said.
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“You have to do it in your seat on the plane, as long as the airline makes it reasonably easy, going down the aisle with a bag to pick up the trash and giving you enough time to collect it — and you have to do it in a movie theater,” Leff said.
“Don’t just abandon them popcorn bags on the floor,” Leff added. “Take them to the bin by the exit. It’s only a few feet.”
