How Fresh Are Airplane Meals? Plus Other Common Airplane Mysteries, Explained

OnlineEditor@theweek.com (Matt Hansen), The Week
Tue, 11/10/2015 - 3:15am

Airline travel is almost 100 years old, yet it remains an enigma to most of us everyday travelers. After all, each time we take a flight, there are complicated code words, airport acronyms, and an intricate ballet of take-offs and landings and loading and unloading. And there are other mysteries, too, that pop up in flight, such as: What do airlines do with all those back issues of SkyMall? Sometimes these mysteries should probably stay mysterious — after all, do we really want to know what happens when we flush an airplane toilet?

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