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Effect of very long flights - Water supplies
wrote in message ... On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:17:21 -0400, "Frank F. Matthews" wrote: DevilsPGD wrote: In message "William Black" wrote: Besides, have you ever been on a flight where the flight attendant didn't bring water when asked? Maybe he believes bottled water is somehow better then regular tap water, or whatever the airline serves... Since there is no supply of 'tap' water on a plane all I have seen staff serve is bottled water. Now if you want to have fun discussing purified bottled water vs bottled spring water we could probably have fun. Been a long time since I flew trans-Atlantic on a 747, but either on Pan-Am or TWA, there were water taps sort of like the ones on a water cooler to fill a glass with. These were by the galleys midships and had some paper cups in a dispenser or you could bring a plastic cup or even a bottle (this was back around '79 when water in bottles was not as common in the U.S. as now.) This was very handy on the rather long fligjht and gave one a decent reason to get up and make walabout to stretch one's legs and rehydrate. The problem with this is that several years ago at least one study confirmed that there were problems with contaminated drinking water in the holding tanks on airplanes. I'd be afraid to drink from any drinking water faucet on an airplane even today. That's one reason the airlines hand out bottled water. On recent flights to/from Europe on a Lufthansa Airbus 340, they came by at least every hour or so wtih drinks/juice etc and you were also invited to nip over to the galley for a drink at any time. Jim P. |
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Effect of very long flights - Water supplies
Jeff Hacker wrote: wrote in message ... On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:17:21 -0400, "Frank F. Matthews" wrote: DevilsPGD wrote: In message "William Black" wrote: Besides, have you ever been on a flight where the flight attendant didn't bring water when asked? Maybe he believes bottled water is somehow better then regular tap water, or whatever the airline serves... Since there is no supply of 'tap' water on a plane all I have seen staff serve is bottled water. Now if you want to have fun discussing purified bottled water vs bottled spring water we could probably have fun. Been a long time since I flew trans-Atlantic on a 747, but either on Pan-Am or TWA, there were water taps sort of like the ones on a water cooler to fill a glass with. These were by the galleys midships and had some paper cups in a dispenser or you could bring a plastic cup or even a bottle (this was back around '79 when water in bottles was not as common in the U.S. as now.) This was very handy on the rather long fligjht and gave one a decent reason to get up and make walabout to stretch one's legs and rehydrate. The problem with this is that several years ago at least one study confirmed that there were problems with contaminated drinking water in the holding tanks on airplanes. I'd be afraid to drink from any drinking water faucet on an airplane even today. That's one reason the airlines hand out bottled water. The only study which I remember applied to the tanks which supply water to the lavs. Do you know of a study that applies to a galley supply, On recent flights to/from Europe on a Lufthansa Airbus 340, they came by at least every hour or so wtih drinks/juice etc and you were also invited to nip over to the galley for a drink at any time. Jim P. |
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Effect of very long flights - Water supplies
Frank F. Matthews writes:
The only study which I remember applied to the tanks which supply water to the lavs. Do you know of a study that applies to a galley supply, The study I saw applied to both galley and lavatory water. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Effect of very long flights - Water supplies
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Mxsmanic wrote: Frank F. Matthews writes: The only study which I remember applied to the tanks which supply water to the lavs. Do you know of a study that applies to a galley supply, The study I saw applied to both galley and lavatory water. Every time I have requested a drink of water, it was supplied in a sealed bottle, so no tap water was involved. |
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Effect of very long flights - Water supplies
Per Shawn Hirn:
Every time I have requested a drink of water, it was supplied in a sealed bottle, so no tap water was involved. I'd think that would depend on where the plane was provisioned. First-world county... probably no problem. Other places.... the questions of where/when the bottle was sealed, who sealed it, and what water they used to fill it arise. Personally, on the few flights I take and the airlines that run them I'd feel 100% at ease drinking anything the crew gave me. -- PeteCresswell |
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