A seasoned flight attendant who's witnessed the 'mile high club' in action has revealed what the actual protocol is.
Nicola Dale, who worked as a Qantas flight attendant for 34 years, appeared on Australian breakfast show Sunrise back in 2024 to discuss what happens when love is well and truly in the air.
And believe it or not, it's not actually a myth.
"It is actually a thing. It happens," she confessed.
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"You see sort of one person go into the bathroom, and then sort of someone else, like, you know, follows in there and you hear noises."
Calling it 'hilarious', Dale said that crew members are then instructed to do a 'non-emergency call' by alerting all the other flight attendants to what's going on.
She said that around 'half a dozen cabin crew' are waiting for when 'the door eventually sort of like opens'.
Dale thinks people do it 'to like tick the box', and when asked if she ever has to rush them up, she replied: "Well, it depends on the situation."
Of course, Dale isn't the only attendant to deal with this.
Mandy Smith, a former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant, previously admitted on LADbible's Honesty Box that she's witnessed people trying their luck in the plane's toilets.
“I have not seen anyone in flagrante, full nakedness, ’cause we can take those doors off, you know," she said when explaining her experience with the act.
"Even though you’ve locked it, we can open them, and we can take the whole door. But no. I have stopped people, knocked on the door, and just said, you know, ‘Excuse me, can you come out,’ kind of thing, ’cause I kind of know what you’re doing.
“It’s worse when you’ve got children on board, and it’s in the daytime, but if it’s on a night flight and they’re being discreet, I probably wouldn’t even interrupt them, if I’m honest.”
Smith reckons it happens in around 'one in 20 or 30 flights'.
Are there legal repercussions to joining the Mile High Club?
If anyone here in the UK is considering joining this risqué club, they may want to think again as it's actually illegal to have sex in a public lavatory.
Skykem, an aircraft cleaning product and toilet deodorant manufacturer, spoke to The Telegraph about this very matter and said that despite it being illegal in the UK, due to planes travelling overseas, things can get a bit murky legally, as they will come under different regulations.
“If you are caught in an uncompromising situation however, then a fine or banning order from the airline is more likely," Skykem says.
Last year, a British couple on an easyJet flight from Luton to Alicante reportedly announced to the rest of the plane they were 'going to join the Mile High Club', before they headed to the toilet, after which 'grunts and groans' were heard, the Express reported.
They were met by Spain's Civil Guard when the plane landed and arrested.
Also last year, Connecticut couple Christopher Arnold, 42, and Trista Reilly, 43, were arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct after they were reportedly witnessed by a mother and her children trying to join the Mile High Club on a flight from New York to Sarasota.
According to the affidavit, the couple allegedly didn't even sneak into the loo, but got down to it in their seats.
Ultimately, charges against the couple were dropped, CT Posts reports, though it's not clear as to why.
The moral of the story? It really isn't worth a fine, potential imprisonment and being placed on the 'no-fly' list.
Topics: Travel, Plane Etiquette
Anish Vij