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Southwest Airlines is in hot water for allegedly burning a passenger with a cup of scalding tea.
According to a lawsuit filed in Davidson County Circuit Court in Nashville, Tenn., on December 28, 2011, Angelica Keller, of Smyrna, Tenn., suffered second-degree burns during a trip from Nashville to Houston on the airline.
Not the first situation of this type; the article mentions the famous McDonalds scalding coffee case. (Which I urge you to read about before immediately dismissing it as frivolous).
What's surprising here is that the boiling point of water is less in an airplane at altitude, making it more difficult to get water hot enough to burn.
I can't figure out why SW doesn't have tray tables in the arms of their bulkhead seats.
When we lived in Japan and flew JAL - IIRC all their planes had cup holders/cut-outs to hold your cup on the tray, I wondered why I never saw this on domestic (US) flights? Honestly, I could take or leave the tray table, but I would LOVE seats to have cup holders like I have in my car to hold my coffee/water.
I've ordered coffee (not tea) on airplanes and I've noticed it was never really super duper hot. Maybe because so if spilled on someone (on a bouncing airplane) there is less risk of a burn.
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