A viral video shows a Frontier flight attendant filling water bottles from the plane's tank. What is that water actually used for?
Is it possible they're maybe using those bottles and that water to flush out a toilet on board? I've worked in gigs where I've had to travel by tour bus and sometimes the flushing apparatus isn't enough and you need to pour in some water to help flush out a toilet...I have no insider knowledge, but if I'm giving the FA's the benefit of the doubt, perhaps its some kind of purpose like that.
Thought most lavs use vacuum systems, not much water (if any); the sink, however, interestingly, does release 'gray water' above 10,000 feet... but, don't worry, it vaporizes, just like during fuel dumps... (they say). Anyone seen Joe Dirt? Supposedly, he found a "lucky meteor"...
The showers on EK and EY A380s also dump overboard. 😉 A little “premium” VOYA souvenir for those below.
This is concerning. Fwiw, other US airlines have offered to refill the plastic water bottles on the plane as well. I hope this isn't where it comes from.
Where do you think water comes from? Unless you literally see them refill from a bigger bottle right in front of you, it's probably the tank. *gulp* (or, actually, don't gulp.)
But, but... Gary rated their water-tank water as a 4.8/5 (he gave Delta a 5/5), so...
Those bottles are much larger than what Frontier sells and the ones they sell are sealed. And there is no way that they would need that many large bottles to serve the very few passengers that would be asking for free water. Those bottles of water have to be being used for something other than being served to passengers
Ben, coffee and tea and made with water heated to a temperature BELOW boiling. Drinking those cute coffee drinks on the plane is not safe either.
No idea what that FA was doing, but I have a friend who is an FA for another airline that does serve complementary water and when they run out, they refill the bottles with tank water. Yes, gross, especially since this is an airline that did not score highly on the testing of tank water. So, my recommendation is order sparkling water.
I don’t put a lot of faith in the Center for Food as Medicine and Longevity and their reporting. If you actually break down the data, it’s not at all clear how they arrived at their “letter rating” of A-F, and airlines with higher incidents of positive coliform tests scored higher letter grades than airlines with fewer incidents per aircraft.
Aircraft water tanks are probably cleaner than the ice machine at the catering facility, the credit card lounge, and your favorite local restaurant.
its not advertised usually but Frontier will always give you a free *cup* of ice / water or even hot water if you ask. single Bottled waters and other beverages and snacks are not free
QANTAS pretty much exclusively uses the aircraft tank water for passengers on long haul flights.
Everyone is given a small individual bottle of water. After that whether it be during meal services or in between services water is provided from large unbranded water jugs that are filled from the aircraft tanks.
my only comment here is that those still active on Xiitter after all of the csam and nazi content deserve to be fed tank water
Or are they filling the bottles, making out they crack the bottle open in front of the pax and take the money for themselves, oldest trick in the book.
During my time as cabin crew at British Airways, we were absolutely allowed to use water from the aircraft’s potable water tanks. We even had water jugs that we were expected to refill from the onboard water supply.
Bottled water is limited too, particularly on ultra-long-haul flights, so where else would crew realistically get additional water during a 12–14+ hour flight? At BA, this was permitted under our procedures at the time. Of course, policies may have changed since then, but seeing a crew member filling a bottle from the aircraft’s potable water supply wouldn’t in itself have struck me as unusual.