Of course, seat-back pockets aren’t the only germ-filled places in a plane, everywhere from the lavatories to your tray tables are home to a number of bacteria and viruses.

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Plane seats, they argue, have definitely gotten smaller. Experts interviewed by Popular Science confirm that hunch: some seats are indeed shrinking, even as passengers are, on average, getting larger.

Pilot issues warning to anyone using the seat back pocket on a plane An American Airlines pilot has warned travellers to stop doing one common thing on a plane - or risk losing their belongings.

You might think the bathrooms would be the grossest part of a plane - but it's actually somewhere much closer to your seat.

Perhaps one of the biggest pains of air travel is the part where you have to sit for hours in a tight, cramped seat. Over the years, there have been debates about the ethics of reclining your seat, ...

An airline pilot has warned passengers to avoid using the seat pockets on the back of airplane seats, as this common habit could lead to them losing their personal belongings forever ...

Of course, seat-back pockets aren’t the only germ-filled places in a plane, everywhere from the lavatories to your tray tables are home to a number of bacteria and viruses.