‘Don’t drink the coffee on airplanes,’ flight attendant warns

[Oxman]

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-sty...anes-flight-attendant-warns-article-1.3753157

Airline chow is infamous for being inedible, but one beverage is worse, according to an industry insider.

“Don’t drink the coffee on airplanes. It’s the same potable water that goes through the bathroom system,” an unidentified flight attendant “for a major American airline” revealed to Vice.com.

“We recently had a test for E. coli in our water and it didn’t pass, and then maintenance came on and hit a couple buttons and it passed,” the flight attendant added. “So, avoid any hot water or tea. Bottled and ice is fine, of course.”

That said, sipping bottled water could lead you to use the plane’s bathrooms, which the anonymous stew called “the most disgusting places on the planet.”

“There’s no way these people act this way in their normal lives,” the source added. “But they get on a plane and go, ‘Cool, I’ll just pee all over the floor and dump my peanuts right on the ground.’”

But if flight attendants catch you doing something annoying, being too demanding or needy, they have their ways to get revenge, the “sky mole” (Vice’s term) confessed.

“Usually, I spend the majority of my time just ignoring them.”

 

[jynxyjoe]

If only high temp water killed bacteria.

 

[Boris Badenov]

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT.HAPPENS NEXT!

 

[Cptnchia]

What a load of crap. Literally. At least the water part. Passengers do pee all over the place unfortunately.

 

[tomokc]

I don't fasten my seatbelt. I don't turn off my phone. I intentionally screw up drink orders. WTH!!!

 

[derg]

Potable water goes through the bathroom system.

That's precious. She may not have been present the day they had Systems Class during indoc. Oh, wait.

 

[jynxyjoe]

Potable water goes through the bathroom system.

That's precious. She may not have been present the day they had Systems Class during indoc. Oh, wait.

If she'd stayed in class another 4 weeks she'd have been a pilot.

 

[derg]

If she'd stayed in class another 4 weeks she'd have been a pilot.

"that's it? I checked the wrong box on the application!"

 

[bLizZuE]

Airbus coffee is way better than RJ coffee. Maybe it's just me though...

 

[Jordan93]

Coffee hold the urine please.

 

[Soul Brotha']

What a load of crap. Literally. At least the water part. Passengers do pee all over the place unfortunately.

Flying to the DR or Hati and you will never use an airplane bathroom again.

 

[derg]

Flying to the DR or Hati and you will never use an airplane bathroom again.

Oh, shoot, you should see the bathroom after a SVO-JFK flight. Wow!

 

[Oxman]

Oh, shoot, you should see the bathroom after a SVO-JFK flight. Wow!

Be grateful that there isn't a middle eastern bum gun in the lav.

 

[derg]

IST to the US can be bad too. It's nothing cultural, it's just that soiled toilet paper is generally put into the waste bin instead of flushed so when you have a plane with 250 people, many of which don't know that it's cool to flush it, well, it can do a number on the lavatory.

 

[thevideographer]

I have actually seen a failed ecoli test of the potable water.

 

[Cessnaflyer]

Well I did have some coffee that had some cockroaches in the container. I can still hear the FA screaming with thick pidgin English, "COCK-UH-ROOCH IN DE COVEE" I brought some from home after that.

 

[Cptnchia]

Well I did have some coffee that had some cockroaches in the container. I can still hear the FA screaming with thick pidgin English, "COCK-UH-ROOCH IN DE COVEE" I brought some from home after that.

Flew with a captain on the ER that refused to drink ships coffee. He brought a small electric percolator and his own roasted coffee and made his own in flight. Was some damn fine java!

 

[Screaming_Emu]

That was easier said than done when I was flying hour long legs. Now I like to think the mixture of potable water from all over the world makes me stronger.

 

[derg]

Flew with a captain on the ER that refused to drink ships coffee. He brought a small electric percolator and his own roasted coffee and made his own in flight. Was some damn fine java!

And theeeen we had "paint chip"

 

[jynxyjoe]

Flew with a captain on the ER that refused to drink ships coffee. He brought a small electric percolator and his own roasted coffee and made his own in flight. Was some damn fine java!

Take one of the big bottles of water, empty 1/3 out however you choose. Empty whole coffee package from back (keep filter). Let sit for 12 hours on overnight with cap on. Use filter to pour out later for cold brew.

Or so I've heard. If you like cold brew, might be an amazing solution, let me know though cause I have no idea.

I mean i hate coffee.