The Water on These Airlines Is so Bad You Shouldn't Even Wash Your Hands With It, Study Finds

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Every frequent flier knows there’s one health rule travelers need to follow. And that rule is, you must drink copious amounts of water while in the air in order to stay hydrated. As Lifehacker explained, the humidity on board planes sits somewhere around 10 to 20 percent, making it a drier landscape than the Sahara. That means you must drink even more water than usual. However, as one study shows, some water on board airlines may be better than others.

The Airline Water Study by DietDetective.com and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center reveals the quality of drinking water varies by airline, so much so that some airline water may actually make you sick.

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So, just which airline comes with the cleanest drinking water on board? That honor belongs to Alaska Airlines and Allegiant.

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The airlines with the worst scores, the team said, are JetBlue and Spirit Airlines.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-water-on-these-airlines-is-so-bad-you-shouldnt-even-wash-your-hands-with-it-study-finds/ar-AAJOy3K?li=BBnb7Kz

[Coventina]

1. You couldn't pay me to fly Allegiant ever again.

[Initech]

2. Wow, Spirit Airlines has the worst water score?

[superpatriotman]

3. WHO drinks bathroom water on a plane?

Stupid clickbait garbage

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. So you don't wash you hands after using the bathroom?

Because the water quality on these planes isn't even clean enough for that.

[superpatriotman]

6. From the OP

"...the quality of drinking water"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Selective aren't you

Read the headline and welcome to ignore. I don't care to waste my time with people who make petty arguments.

[DarthDem]

5. The Survey Concerns Drinking Water

You're confused.

[SoCalNative]

7. I've not been on a flight in the past several years

where they served anything other than bottled water when you request water to drink. But then again I don't fly discount carriers and rarely travel domestically.

[bluecollar2]

8. As a former AA mechanic and Maintenance Quality Inspector

Let me just advise everyone who reads this...

If it doesn't come from a sealed container don't consume it...

And carry sanitizer wipes for use after contact with surfaces in the lavatories.

Trust me.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. I carry a few empty water bottles in my carry-on bag.

If there's no liquid in them, TSA isn't interested in them.

Then I fill them at a drinking fountain in the "secure" area of the terminal. Now I have plenty of water for the trip.

I didn't know the water in the lavatory was too foul to wash with. Now I guess I have to use hand sanitizer AFTER washing my hands.