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There are several services that many passengers are not aware of on-board airplanes simply because they are unadvertised.

For example:

  • Coat compartments. You can hang your suit in the airplanes cupboard! just ask a flight attendant!
  • Birthday / wedding cakes. You can ask the reservation agent for wedding or birthday cake and they will bring it to you on-board!
  • Stain remover. In case something spilled on your shirt, you can ask flight attendants to help and they will bring you the stain remover wet tissue and it really helps!

Are there any other common unadvertised services that exist on airplanes?

gparyani
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Nean Der Thal
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Singapore Airlines A340-500's have an on-board morgue of sorts; a special compartment for people who die in flight. Apparently, the A340-500's cover the longest commercial air route in the world, "a nonstop 18-hour flight from Newark to Singapore", so they need to deal with things like that semi-regularly.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20120104-travelwise-death-on-a-plane

Is that the kind of 'unadvertised service' you were thinking of? :P

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People who wish they could get more liquid may be surprised to find how successful it is to say "A can of Coke please" instead of "Coke please" when they come around with the cart. On every airline that doesn't charge for soft drinks, this has worked for me. It's better than my old strategy of asking for a type of pop I thought would be unpopular like Tonic Water (which I love) and hoping the flight attendant would offer me the whole can.

Also some airplanes have drinking water taps so you can fill your own water bottle, and even if they don't, often you can ask for it to be filled when the cart comes around and they will (with water, anyway.) I have also asked while we were still loading passengers to have my water bottle filled and it has worked. On trips where I didn't bring a bottle but was very thirsty, I have also asked for "two glasses of water please" and again I have never been denied.

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