I’m a flight attendant — hot towels in first-class come with dirty little secrets

They’re meant to cleanse hands and face, but first-class slobs are using them to scrub their foul and funky places. 

Hot towels often come as a complimentary amenity to passengers with premium status on airplanes. 

But a veteran flight attendant warns that those little lukewarm luxuries — heated cloths typically handed out to first-class flyers shortly after boarding or right before the in-flight meal is served — are covered in bodily filth left behind by tactless trippers. 

A former first class flight attendant claims that the hot towels given to premium passengers are often covered in toe jam and other bodily filth from previous flyers. siro46 – stock.adobe.com

“Not everyone uses them just for their hands and faces, if you know what I mean,” advised Kate, a former first-class flight attendant for Emirates, in an eye-popping TikTok post. 

“I’ve seen passengers put these cloths in all sorts of places,” she added before taking to her comments section to confirm that passengers use the washed and reused towels to eke out toe jam, wipe their groins and “stick them in all sorts of orifices.” 

It’s a superior skyway slop. 

But the muckiness of air travel doesn’t stop at the grimy rags. 

Flight attendants have gone viral revealing the dirtiest areas of most airplanes. Yaroslav Astakhov – stock.adobe.com

Cher, a Texas-based flight attendant, virally revealed the “filthiest” parts of a plane, which include the window shades, the bathroom sinks, the carpet and seat belt straps. 

Josephine Remo, a cabin crew member and travel influencer, separately blasted overhead bins as breeding grounds for gunk, saying the storage compartments are “rarely cleaned” and “touched by a lot of people.”

Commenters beneath Kate’s post cringed at claims that first-class towels are foul. andrey – stock.adobe.com

And now, Kate’s most recent revelation regarding the not-so-sanitary towels at 30,000 feet is grossing out a lot of people.

“Never washing my face again with those,” vowed a revolted virtual viewer, who punctuated their disgust with the vomiting emoji. 

“Nothing like a nice groin cleanse before lift-off,” teased a commenter. 

“Hahaha as an ex-aircraft cleaner, I would never touch them,” a repulsed plane professional laughed. 

A tickled Kate joined in on the jokes, writing, “Passengers traveling for 25+ hours…. they got bits to wash.”