United Airlines has long been a favorite of mine. My reasoning is anecdotal. My neighbor is a United pilot and I respect his skills as a pilot and his choice of an airline to work with. I have had relatively good luck on United flight schedules. Plus they have never left me sitting on the tarmac for hours while they fix the plane. The crew on United flights seem very nice compared to other airlines...like they really care about me.
Do they actually care what I think? Evidently they do. In a recent bid to attract more passengers, United now is on a mission to make their jets spick-and-span.
I am not exactly a neat freak. However I will never again look in seat-back pockets after finding something I think belonged in the bathroom in one pocket. And I remind my kids to never touch those grimy pockets also.
I don't easily get grossed out. But even I have my limits. A cleaner airplane seems almost like an impossible task, that is until a fastidious United manager Paul Sanders and clean guru for United Timothy Canavan made making their jets pristine their personal mission.
Thanks to these guys and others at United we can feel a bit better about cleaner planes when we board a United flight. According to the Chicago Tribune:
Now, the intensive cleans are done every 30 days for the smaller United jets that fly within the U.S. and every 15 days for the wide-body aircraft that cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enduring wear and tear during the long flights that can cause planes to become run-down more quickly.
