Why You Should NEVER Take Your Shoes Off In-Flight
If you take your shoes off on a plane… flight attendants panic internally.
Not because of your feet.
But because airplane carpets are… let’s say… biological war zones.

Spilled drinks, vomit, old milk, bodily fluids, food bacteria, diaper leaks — all absorbed into the fabric. Between flights, the carpet is not deep-cleaned.
It is “lightly wiped.”
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Walking barefoot on it?
You may as well lick the tray table.
