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by unknownus3r 1383 days ago
Flights that go to certain countries or that members of certain countries fly through tend to be exceptionally dirty. You know who you are, fam. I’ve been on emirates flights that look like a trash tornado hit them after a 15 hour flight. Be neat!
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Eh, just call it out, it's India and its subcontinental neighbours. And the reason is less culture and more there being a lot of first-time passengers going to menial jobs in the Gulf, who have been recruited from deep in the countryside and are entirely unfamiliar with things like non-squat toilets and how garbage collection works on planes.

I once flew DEL-AUH next to a gentleman who was clearly very puzzled with nearly every component of his in-flight meal. Not sharing any languages, I helped him out best I could with sign language, but I still remember his expression of surprised delight when he poured one packet's contents straight into his mouth, expecting gutka (powdered smokeless tobacco) but getting powdered coffee creamer instead.