Flight attendant shares three hygiene secrets on plane you may wish you'd never known

Whether you're going on a business trip or a , it's important to know what to do when you board a flight.

While all airlines perform safety demonstrations before you take off to show what you need to do in case of an emergency, such as how your seatbelt works and what to do if the plan needs to do an emergency landing.

However, the more flights you go on, the more tips and you will figure out about how to make your time on the plane more comfortable.

To help, one flight attendant named Cierra Mistt has shared her top tips for plane passengers to make your flight more comfortable and less stressful.

"Here are some things that passengers should know that flight attendants and pilots don't talk about, until now that is," Cierra said at the start of the .

Don't go to the toilet barefoot

"Whatever you do, do not walk barefoot into that bathroom," Cierra warned her viewers.

She went on to explain: "I can promise you, the liquid on the floor is not water and you will not want to be stepping in it. Not to mention, that bathroom never gets cleaned, unless it's bad enough that we have to literally close it off for the rest of the flight."

Instead, she recommends keeping your shoes on if you feel the urge to use the toilet onboard the plane.

Planes aren't as clean as you might think

"Speaking of cleaners, while it is true that cleaners do come on most flights after passengers are done getting off the plane, they don't do a deep clean like you might think they do," Cierra revealed.

"In fact, they only did that during Covid and the only thing that they really deep cleaned are the tray tables and the seatbelts," she said. "Nowadays, it's more like a tidy up and getting trash off the floor."

Because of this, she recommends giving your seat a quick clean before you get comfortable.

Clean the window

"That being said, there is a reason why we offer you those wipes right as you're boarding the flight," she said.

She went on to share her insider information: "If I were you, instead of wiping down that tray table and the seatbelts they just cleaned, I would use that wipe to clean off the window that you're sitting next to."

"Because just like the bathroom floor, those things have never been cleaned either," she said.

In her video, Cierra also recommended shunning airplane toilet roll in favour of paper towels. However, paper towel should never be flushed, so be sure not to dispose of it this way and think twice before following this tip.