Flight attendant reveals the disgusting reason you should NOT drink coffee on planes

A flight attendant has revealed on TikTok the disgusting reason passengers should avoid drinking coffee on flights. 

The content creator Kevin, known as @ichbinvin, looked at answers that had been asked on Reddit about flying in response to a question which asked: 'Flight attendants, what’s the dirty little secrets of your industry?'

The question had been answered by people working in the avian profession on the website.

Kevin then took some of the answers and gave his own opinion on what had been shared in his video.

The first point he tackled had been made by an anonymous respondent who said they were a pilot.

This respondent said people never drink coffee on board a flight, giving a very compelling reason as to why it is best avoided.

They said people should avoid the hot drink because water tanks are 'rarely if ever cleaned, and they use this water to make coffee on board'.

Kevin agreed that passengers should avoid drinking coffee onboard, and recommended that fliers 'get to the airport 10 minutes earlier'.

This is so that they have time to 'buy a coffee in the terminal'.

But he had extra reasons for why fliers should avoid drinking the coffee, beyond how rarely the pilot said the water tanks are cleaned. 

Kevin explains in the video: 'The fact 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 continued to emphasise that the cleaning of the coffee pot, which he claims includes dumping the coffee into a toilet, isn’t necessarily sanitary.

He continued: '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.

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.'

He shared one final piece of information when it comes to drinking coffee on a plane.

Kevin said he wouldn't drink drip coffee on flights unless the 'airline has some kind of Nespresso maker on it'.