Taking water on long flights
 

We have a non stop flight from NY to Honolulu next month and was wondering if I should pack a couple of bottles of water.

Has anyone experienced the airlines ever running out of water /soft drinks during a 10 hour flight?

I never thought of doing this until someone suggested it the other day

Anything is possible. I always take a bottle along as well as a small snack like fig bars or something just in case of minor disaster. I even pack a paper fan in case we are stuck out on the tarmak with no air conditioning.

I, too, always take water and some snacks on all flights, irrespective of long they will be. You never, ever know when you could get stuck on the tarmac for hours on end due to some glitch or other. Always best to be prepared.

Have a great trip.

I always take a couple of bottles of water and a pretty substantial snack. I feel really dehydrated on longer flights and I don't like to keep asking the flight attendants for those dinky cups of water. I will have to remember the idea of a paper fan, that could be very handy!

A couple of bottles of water and some decent snacks is something I always put in my carryon ga9497. One snack is a closeable bag of dried apricots.

Another 'YES' to taking water with you.

I've never been on a flight where it has run out but sometimes I've felt it's been rationed!

I forgot mine the other day, and almost died of thirst before I got a drink (bumpy, seatbelts on).

I would never travel without my own water.

It's unkilely the airline will run out - but it may not be cold and they may not be serving when you're thirsty.

Also - unless I'm flying coach I take my own meal ( a decent sandwich is better than the micro-nuked swill they serve). Just put it all in a lunch size soft cooler in your carry-on. (And freeze the water before you leave to keep everything cold.)

Thanks everyone.

We are planning on taking our own snacks/ sandwiches for the flight as we don't normally eat what they pass out anyway. That is a great idea to freeze the water to use as ice packs

By the way we are flying Continental

I am of the opinion that no one should fly anymore without some sort of food and water. You never know what is available inside security, flights have been known to sit on tarmac forever, etc.

Oh, and take your own wine. It disguises nicely in those 16 oz plastic coke bottles. ((b))

I never worried about taking my own water until I read Joel Wysong's tripso.com column on airline water. First class gets 100% bottled water; business class gets half bottled and half tap; economy gets 3/4 tap--and the tap water is scary.
http://www.tripso.com/archives/2005/11/water.html Read the column and you'll NEVER drink airplane water again.

So happy, are you saying that when I am flying coach and I see them pour me water out of a spring water bottle, that they have previously "doctored" the bottle w/tap water?? Just wondering....

Only if the water is from a pitcher.

I personally do not like the taste of the bottled water handed out on Jetblue. It is not spring water, that's for sure. I always bring 2 bottles of water on long flights, I buy them at the airport. I think over drinking is just annyoing. After 4 hours on a long flight the bathrooms starts to get kinda nasty and the pee catching ridge on the bathroom floor is pretty full by then.

If I am not flying first class I bring my own snacks. I stick with whole grains and dried fruit. The Quaker Oatmeal breakfast cookies are filling, healthy (5 grams of fiber per cookie) and really good! I stay away from salt and caffeine.

I always take a small water and snacks. One time due to plane problems, bad weather & circling in air, etc. we had to run from connection to connection. As luck would have it, we were never on a plane when they were serving a meal, did not have time between planes to grab a snack, etc. By the last leg of our journey, we were starving but on a smaller plane which did not even have snacks. Talk about starving to death! Never again - I always have food with me!

I used to be a FH and will do all that I can to avoid airplane tap water. And, I want my water on demand, so I bring a very large bottle. Also bring snacks like granola, granola bars, nuts, peanut butter crackers. I hardly even rely on the airplane for my sustenance anymore. Unless I should be so lucky as to fly first class. That is a whole different story.

I have learned to avoid all those salty snacks they hand out. I like to take grapes and yogurt and, for longer flights, a small sandwich. I bought a neat little insulated lunch bag at Wal-Mart for a dollar which holds everything I need and doesn't look too dorky. (As if I should care about dorkness at 66!)