A flight attendant has slammed passengers who expect cabin crew to clean up after them, especially during long-haul flights.
American baseball player Anthony Bass recently sparked a debate when he took to Twitter to slam cabin crew.
He claimed that flight attendants on a recent journey left his pregnant wife on her 'hands and knees' to clean up after their toddler spilled popcorn on the floor, but fans were not impressed.
Instead they backed the United crew. "Genuinely curious who should clean up the mess your 2 year old made?" one user asked. "As a parent of three kids I am the one responsible for them."
Former Emirates cabin crew member Caroline Kneitz agrees that the expectation should not be on flight attendants.
She told MailOnline: "Crew are not paid to clean and neither are the parents responsible to clean. The airline employs cleaners who come on board once the passengers have all disembarked."
The former airline worker also said that she blames 'bad parenting' when it comes to children making messes on flights, usually because it's down to the snacks that they're being given.
She said: "I have seen many kids on flights that are completely out of control. Unfortunately I put this down to bad parenting. I've seen parents filling up their kids with soft drinks and only sugar.
I had one mother who requested a coffee for her four-year-old with three sugars in. As crew we are trained not to educate our customers, so even in this case I couldn't do anything. Shorty after serving the beverage, the child was wild."
Unruly children and messy passengers aren't the only pet peeves for cabin crew.
One flight attendant previously revealed that there's one rude passenger habit that instantly turns the airline's staff against you before you've even settled into your seat, while another pointed out that the call button should be avoided unless you have a genuine reason for needing staff's attention (wanting a drink won't count).
While they are there to help, calling staff over could actually be dangerous at certain points in the flight.
TikTok star @katkamalani previously explained: "It drives flight attendants bonkers when you hit your flight attendant button if we are on the tarmac or if we're going up or down on the aircraft."
This might seem a bit strange but Kat explained: "The reason being it's a huge safety issue for us, we could get injured and same with you guys. So if we're on the tarmac, you hit this and it's not some kind of emergency we're going straight back to our seat."
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