Originally Posted by pistonsdc
I fly mostly on AA and drink the water every time. When the FAs use up one bottle, they open a new, sealed one. Does anyone think the airlines are filling these bottles with tap water and then resealing them?
There have been threads in the AA forum in which people have reported seeing an FA fill up a "bottled water" bottle from the tank water source and then pour it out of the "bottled water" bottle to passengers. I'm sure this happens on every airline.
Now, if you actually see the FA break the manufacturer's seal, then it's not from the airplane tank, but if you just see it being poured out of a "bottled water" bottle, you have no idea where it really came from.
Also, keep in mind that the whole reason for the water ban is that Chertoff and Hawley think it is easy for someone to manufactuer the manufacturer's plastic seal and cerrations on the cap of a bottled water bottle (after they put the liquid explosives into the bottle, of course). Ergo, using their logic, you shouldn't believe it's real "bottled water" even if you see the FA break the seal right in front of your eyes!