You should probably think twice about ordering tea or coffee on a plane
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- Ordering coffee or tea on overnight and early morning flights might be tempting, but you should probably opt for a different drink choice.
- Not even flight attendants will drink plain coffee or tea on an airplane.
- The water used to make these drinks comes from the tap, which is often pretty gross on an airplane.
- An EPA study found that one in every eight planes fail the agency's standards for water safety.
Overnight and early morning flights are hard on all of us. Sometimes, the only saving grace is a nice warm cup of tea or coffee to wake us up and help us feel refreshed after hours in the air. But you may want to think twice before you order that English breakfast blend, according to cabin crew members.
“Flight attendants will not drink hot water on the plane. They will not drink plain coffee, and they will not drink plain tea,” one flight attendant told Business Insider in February. Why the self-imposed ban on delicious warm beverages?See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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