Flight attendant shares ‘disgusting’ reason you should never drink coffee on plane

A flight attendant has revealed why passengers should never drink the coffee served on planes.

Kevin, who goes by the username @ichbinvin, shared a recent video to TikTok to look at some of the responses to a Reddit post, which asked: “Flight attendants, what’s the dirty little secrets of your industry? He started by reading one Reddit comment from someone who was a pilot, who encouraged people not to drink the coffee on board because “water tanks are rarely if ever cleaned, and they use this water to make coffee on board”.

In his video, Kevin agreed that plane coffee is “disgusting”, before encouraging travellers to “get to the airport 10 minutes earlier and buy a coffee in the terminal”. However, according to the flight attendant, he doesn’t avoid the coffee aboard a flight because of the water tanks.

“The fact that the tanks rarely get cleaned where the water’s in should be the least of your concern,” he said. “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 continued to emphasise that the cleaning of the coffee pot, which he claims includes dumping the coffee into a toilet, isn’t necessarily sanitary.

“When you take a coffee pot and dump it in the toilet, in order to not make a huge mess everywhere, you kind of have to get a little close to the toilet,” he said. “And I imagine that there’s some kind of backsplash of particles, bacteria, whatever that goes directly back into the coffee pot which gets put right back into the coffee maker.”

Kevin added that unless an “airline has some kind of Nespresso maker on it,” he wouldn’t get the regular drip coffee served on planes.

The flight attendant’s video has quickly gone viral, with more than 161,800 views as of 1 December. In the comments, many people shared their candid reactions to Kevin’s claims about how the coffee pots are allegedly cleaned.

“The coffee one is making me cry,” one wrote, while another quipped: “Coffee, tea, it’s a no for me. Ginger ale me up.”

A third added: “Sir, thank you for your service NEVER drinking airplane coffee again!!!”

The Independent has contacted Kevin for comment.

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