04 December 2023 , 12:24
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A flight attendant has urged passengers to avoid drinking coffee when on planes.
Kevin, who goes by the username @ ichbinvin, recently posted a video on TikTok in which he lifted the lid on some of the "dirty little secrets" of the aviation industry. In it he addressed a long-standing rumour surrounding coffee.
According to a pilot writing on Reddit, hot drinks on commercial jets should be avoided because of where they come from. They claimed that “water tanks are rarely if ever cleaned, and they use this water to make coffee on board”.
Kevin echoed the aviator's sentiments, arguing that the hot drink aboard aircraft is "disgusting". Rather than having to play the plane coffee roulette, he urged passengers to “get to the airport 10 minutes earlier and buy a coffee in the terminal”. However, the flight attendant is not an opponent of plane coffee for the same reasons.
“The fact that the tanks rarely get cleaned where the water’s in should be the least of your concern. For me, it’s always been the way that flight attendants have to clean coffee pots. For whatever reason, we’re not supposed to empty coffee pots in drains, we’re supposed to dump them down the toilet," he said.
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Kevin went on to claim that not only are coffee pots on commercial jets rarely cleaned, they are often emptied into the plane toilets, which doesn't feel overly sanitary.
You don't have to be a germaphobe to find the plane experience a slightly icky one. Thousands of people move through any given aircraft in any given week while staff often have very little time to do deep-cleans between flights.
Airlines do send cleaners onto planes to spruce them up between services, but often they are under significant time pressure due to tight flight schedules. If you are concerned about germs, then there are a few particular places on a plane you may want to avoid.
Flight attendant Barbie, 29, often shares travel tips and secrets on her TikTok channel. She recently revealed what she believes to be the three dirtiest parts of a plane. Unsurprisingly, the toilet floor took first place. The cleanliness of the toilet floor - or lack of it - is not hard to understand, given what people are up to in there and the challenges of doing so in such a confined space with the threat of a sudden spot of turbulence hanging over you.
She also warned passengers about the tray tables. The seat tables are unlikely to be as unpleasant, but are perhaps worth avoiding as well, given that you're most likely to be eating off them. Cleaners may not have the time to give them a spruce up between flights, and you never know who has done what on them the previous service. Whether it's a passenger resting their feet on the tables or plonking their forehead down during a nap, germaphobes may want to keep them flipped up.