Does Starbucks handle the Southwest beverage service now?

burn!

Is coffee the same on all airlines?

I had it on a red-eye flight on Alaskan and it was terrible

"Brewed Awakening"... man, ten bucks says you guys were just ITCHING to use that one for some time ;)

now I shall steal it!

"But let's call it a brewed awakening."

A brewed awakening that forced the plane to ground.

(Coffee grounds, get it? Don't hate.) :)

@G.O.B.: Come on!: You just had to ruin the joke by trying to explaint it, didnt you, you *|RUDE_WORD|*

Sort of off topic of the article, but on topic of the comments so far...

Horizon Air has the best beverage service of any US airline.
(They are a sub to Alaska, and great to fly in.)
Free good Pacific Northwest beer, free Jones soda, more...

Has anyone been able to substantiate if this was a terrorist act, has the TSA interviewed any of the airline staff to ensure that this was not intentional sabotage? I want to see a full investigation, after all, this is a serious issue that the TSA can get excited about. Perhaps as a result we can have hot liquids or coffee banned from flights along with the list of personal hygiene products.

I've had the new coffee that Southwest is now serving it's not half bad.

*puts up the flame shield*

Still, better that they actually check out what the issue was than just keep on going.

@theblackdog: Crap, forgot a comma in there.

The flight was grounded?

I bet those passengers feel mugged.

And Southwest is supposed to be the cream of the crop...

Sounds to me like security got the ol French press...

Bet they won't be so bold in the future.

@Smashville: Wait...I have more...

Time for someone to spill the beans about how this happened...it will probably take a while for information to filter out.

@DreamTheEndless: Back during the bad-old days of regulated airlines, Braniff used coffee they imported themselves from columbia. My mother, who worked for Braniff I and II said it was some of the best she'd ever had and always looked forward to flying just to get some.

My how things change.

So I should take that to mean that Southwest is now serving Dunkin' Donuts burnt coffee.

Actually, I should apologize to our very own Verucalise, who should have given birth by now. I did have a cup of un burnt tasting Dn'D coffee two weeks ago. But I think it was an aberration.

@Smashville: Winner.

@AppleAlex: I remember flying on KLM a long time ago and all their planes smelled of really good quality coffee.

@Smashville: You sound bitter about the whole thing. You better Yirgacheffe yourself before you wreck yourself.

@G.O.B.: Come on!:

they are going to have a latte of disappointed customers.

@SkokieGuy:
+1

A poltergeist haunting the plane would also smell like burnt coffee, so they were wise to investigate.

@Applyin'Sunscreen_GitEmSteveDave:
You sure you didn't accidentally go to Starbucks? I've never had burnt-tasting DD coffee.

@HiPwr: Hahaha!

@AppleAlex: JetBlue uses Dunkin Donuts

@AppleAlex: Not only is it all the same, it was all brewed in the same giant batch back in 1986.

@tbax929: I wouldn't say it if it didn't happen nearly EVERY time I go there, no matter the location. And I drink coffee from lots of other places, and rarely catch that. IIRC, I've never partaken of SB.

@HiPwr: Is that the "History" Channel on it's way?

@Smashville: You win.

At least Southwest doesn't have a "burnt coffee smell" charge. Wait until Delta finds out.

@G.O.B.: Come on!:
Did you see the tags? "Grounds For Concern"

o_O

Funny how the new "Lift" coffee Southwest is touting ended up doing just the opposite to their plane....

@Applyin'Sunscreen_GitEmSteveDave: This is blasphemy, bordering on defamation, and I'm considering getting Roz in here. For shame.

I just got back from a Southwest flight from Dallas. Horrific smell quickly after takeoff. It's smells like the toilet was backed up. Pilot notifies us several minutes later informing us of a bird strike as the cause of the smell. Never would have thought it would smell up the cabin like that.

@ds143: Only if they mocha big deal out of it.

@AppleAlex: The main problem is air pressure at altitude does not allow for efficient brewing. I've found the DD coffee on JetBlue to be slightly better than other airlines, but still not as good as coffee on the ground.

@theblackdog: I'm thinking semi-colon.

@AppleAlex: Continental's coffee is horrendous, yet somehow I forget that fact once I board one of their flights.

@darabidduckie: I'm trying to figure out why they used "aroma" as a tag. I generally use "aroma" when describing a pleasant smell. As this ended up being burnt coffee, there's no way it was a pleasant aroma.

Another service that they'll soon be charging for?

@nycaviation: 8000 feet isn't good enough? What? That's the altitude planes are generally pressurized to, and I've been to plenty of places above even 9000 feet (in the cold) that had darn good coffee.

It has nothing to do with that and everything to do with bad water.

Would you have been happy if Southwest had ignored the odor only to discover the odor was something important, like a wiring harness shorting out to the frame of the plane?

@undefined:
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Huh? Airlines use extraction brewing... pressure comes into play in an espresso-type machine, which is "pressurized" to the equivilant of being well under sea level.

However, the low air pressure does make everything bland, and can make coffee taste dull..

United experimented with Starbucks, but pulled it when even that coffee sucked.

The good coffee out there is jetBlue's on the E190s, Southwest's new Lift blend, and ours.

The reason? jetBlue uses bottled water on the e190s, instead of the "gray" water on the A320s. Southwest is passing all water for their new coffee offering through a filter custom-designed by Pur. We start flights with bottled water, but if it runs low, we have an off the shelf (from Target, specifically) Brita pitcher ready to go.

What, no "tastes burnt" tag?