![]() There are no industry standards for airline blankets. It is seemingly innocuous and forgettable, discarded in the seats or tossed on the floor as passengers shuffle down the aisle and deplane. It is small (50" x 40"), usually made of blue or red mass-produced polyester fleece. The airline blanket is an icon of modern flight. Overhead bin full of blankets (Flickr/ joyewan) Perhaps the American Airlines messenger also feared that gay itself would go viral, that it would be carried or communicated indiscriminately by the airline's blankets. In this case, the airline blankets also uncovered something: ignorance about how a particular virus can be contracted - or maybe just homophobia. ![]() radioed ahead to request a change of blankets the ground crew receiving the message transcribed it as: "inbd crew req complete chg of all pillows blankets due gay rights activists group onbd." Some of the passengers on this flight had recently attended the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.īlankets cover things, like cold passengers during a long flight, or dead bodies after a tragedy. On April 28 1993, a crewmember on an American Airlines flight to Dallas-Ft. ![]() Discarded airline blanket (Christopher Schaberg) ![]()
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