Flight passenger calls out fellow flyers for bad habit, shares fix for problem

Posted in the "r/SouthwestAirlines" forum, the note was titled, "Favorite trick for people that put trash in seatback pockets." 

The user said he or she witnessed an "alarming amount of people" not handing their trash to the flight attendants for collection prior to the plane's landing.

"Just a suggestion that has a 50% success rate thus far," the post said.

Fox News Digital reached out to Southwest Airlines for thoughts. 

Users took to the comments section of the post to discuss the issue.

"There will always be idiots/morons/low-lifes that just do not care," said another.

That same person added, "Often [it's] the same folks that will complain when they board and find trash that was missed."

One Redditor commented, "Not me, but someone I worked with ... Coming through to collect trash, guy has a bunch of newspapers in the seatback pocket. 'Hey, is that trash, or are you going to keep it?' Him: 'I'll keep it.'

"Well, we land, guy walks off leaving the newspaper," the person added.

"Passive-aggressive communication at its finest," one user said.

"Increasingly, carriers spend little time cleaning up between flights. They don't schedule planes with enough time on the ground to do it - and when a flight runs late it's one of the first things that gets cut," said Leff.

It's important, he noted, that passengers at least pass their trash to flight attendants as they come down the aisle to collect it. 

"Cleaning up after yourself is a basic starting point for civil society," said Leff. 

"You need to do it at your seat on a plane, as long as the airline makes it reasonably easy, coming down the aisle with a bag to collect trash and giving you enough time to gather it - and you need to do it in the movie theater, too," said Leff.