10. Don’t Drink This Water!
Even if hydration is really important while flying, you should definitely avoid drinking the tap water. We know that buying a water bottle on the airplane isn’t cheap but at least is healthy! “The Wall Street Journal did a study in 2002 that showed that tap water on planes had bacteria levels around one hundred times the amount allowed in the United States. The newspaper tested tap and galley water on fourteen different flights all over the world. The result, according to their article was “a long list of microscopic life you don’t want to drink, from Salmonella and Staphylococcus to tiny insect eggs. Worse, contamination was the rule, not the exception.”, as a reporter wrote on The Richest.