Airline coffee

A Life Aloft said:
BYOC



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I flew with a guy who asked me to "instruct" the purser to wash his mug out and "instruct" her on how to not only brew the coffee, but also precisely what he wanted in it.

Needless to say, I responded with a "Why don't we go ahead and have YOU talk to the purser directly about that, mm'kay?"
 
Oh, and the little circle with "T/D" next to it showing up on the EHSI is my cue for a cup of sweet, delicious airplane coffee. I am not ashamed. :)
 
dasleben said:
I never understood the other pilots who eat the fish. I guess they haven't seen "Airplane"? :)
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Too many places to get an "oops" whilst eating fish on a jet.

Boat to port.

Port to wholesaler.

Wholesaler to purchasing agent.

Purchasing agent to Sky Chefs

Sky Chefs to the Kitchen

Kitchen to the airport

Airport to transportation

Transportation to jet

Jet to galley

Galley to oven

(X)

Oven to cockpit.

Too many parts where the optimum temperature for proper food storage can be disregarded.
 
dasleben said:
Oh, and the little circle with "T/D" next to it showing up on the EHSI is my cue for a cup of sweet, delicious airplane coffee. I am not ashamed. :)
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You know what's hilarious, is that I only drink coffee westbound trans-Atlantic. Otherwise I get to the layover and won't nap correctly.
 
Derg said:
I flew with a guy who asked me to "instruct" the purser to wash his mug out and "instruct" her on how to not only brew the coffee, but also precisely what he wanted in it.

Needless to say, I responded with a "Why don't we go ahead and have YOU talk to the purser directly about that, mm'kay?"
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What a D-Bag that guy must have been.
 
Derg said:
I flew with a guy who asked me to "instruct" the purser to wash his mug out and "instruct" her on how to not only brew the coffee, but also precisely what he wanted in it.

Needless to say, I responded with a "Why don't we go ahead and have YOU talk to the purser directly about that, mm'kay?"
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lmao I can only imagine what they might do or put in his mug/coffee after that b.s. After all, they are there to be our personal waitresses. I flew with guys who went on with complicated crap about how many sugars, how much cream, how many packs to brew (some like the double whammy strength), put a little ice in it, you name it. They all got the same thing as everyone else and the "look". lol

I always just brought my own coffee in a thermos, filled from home or from Starbucks or somewheres at the airport and added the cream and sugar from home or the airport, sealed it up and was good to go. I might need it re-heated a bit after several hours (which I did myself mostly), but that was it.
 
A Life Aloft said:
I flew with guys who went on with complicated crap about how many sugars, how much cream, how many packets to brew (some like the double whammy strength), you name it. They all got the same thing as everyone else and the "look".
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I think Doug may know or may have seen someone like that in a crew setting......:)
 
This is one of the reasons I often got some of the little treats that the F/As had made at home and brought with them or extra desserts. Well, that and maybe for the neck and foot rubs that I gave. lol I never made PITA or demeaning requests of them.
 
MikeD said:
I think Doug may know or may have seen someone like that in a crew setting......:)
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I haven't seen old "Paint Chip" around the site for a bit, I should go look at his user info to see if he's lurking! :)
 
Cptnchia said:
You sure you weren't employing a survival technique I'm trying to get my wife to use?

If you set your expectations low enough, and expect everyone to screw up whatever they are doing, when they actually manage to do something right, you can be pleasantly surprised, rather than disappointed when they screw up like you knew they would.
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You just described a day at work for me.

It's fun actually because while the captain is getting torqued off about something and yelling at the guy on the ops radio, I sit there with my (non airline) coffee saying "called it!"

I will not drink airline coffee unless I'm on an international flight, then I limit it to one cup before landing to get me through customs so I can find a better one. The water tanks on planes are nasty. Quite frequently I have washed my hands on our lav and they smell like dirty socks afterwards. Different tanks, same source.
 
A Life Aloft said:
I always just brought my own coffee in a thermos, filled from home or from Starbucks or somewheres at the airport and added the cream and sugar from home or the airport, sealed it up and was good to go. I might need it re-heated a bit after several hours (which I did myself mostly), but that was it.
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This!

The first captain I noticed doing that is my friggin hero. Was a long leg in a long day. I complained about being tired, he pulled out a thermos and two styrofoam cups. I asked santa for a thermos for Christmas. Only seem to drag it around in winter though.

Another good option is the starbucks via iced coffee mix. Get your novelty sized bottle of water, drink it down about half way, add a packet. Or just add two from the beginning and nurse it all day.
 
I DO NOT drink the coffee on the airplane I fly, as it is not made onboard. We trust the stations to make it.

That's right, we trust the stations (think: BTR LFT JAN AEX...) to make it.

That's really all I have to say about that...
 
Autothrust Blue said:
I DO NOT drink the coffee on the airplane I fly, as it is not made onboard. We trust the stations to make it.

That's right, we trust the stations (think: BTR LFT JAN AEX...) to make it.

That's really all I have to say about that...
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I guess Eagle has those stupid hot jugs too... You mean you don't want coffee out of pots that haven't been washed since 2002?
 
I've never been a coffee drinker, but I used to drink airplane hot tea in the morning. I did that until a Northwest mechanic explained to me that the potable water tanks on the DC-9s had never once been visually inspected in their 40 years of service. The only thing they do is run a chlorine based mixture through them on some sort of scheduled basis. After I heard that, I decided that I didn't need to be drinking any water that came out of a tank that hadn't been seen by human eyes for longer than I'd been alive.
 
When Delta switched to the Seattle's Best brand, one of our agents placed the green metallic package of decaf in the bottom tray of the galley cart, rather than in the awkward triangle shaped cubby up top. They didn't think anything of it, until about an hour later. Our office got a call that one of our flights diverted for a suspicious package found in the galley cart that was green, metallic and smelled like fish. They asked if we could identify what the package was... sure enough, it was the decaf. Delta wasn't too happy with SB after that and we were instructed not to place it on any aircraft for a few days until they could figure out why it smelled like fish, haha. A new delivery showed up a few days later.
 
Yeah... I'm far too big of a coffee snob to even consider drinking airplane coffee. Hell... if I can't drink the stuff they make in our office (with filtered water, etc.), there's no way in hell I'm going to drink something that is a.) made from water of questionable storage (especially now that I know some of those tanks have tested positive for nasty stuff), and b.) made from coffee that has potentially been in non-climate controlled storage for who knows how long.

French press or GTFO. :D
 
I may be a regional FO, but I don't think I'll ever be so poor as to drink the airplane coffee just because it's "free"... healthcare is expensive!
 
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