Competition season is in full effect, which means that for many coffee folks, it’s also travel season. Raleigh-Durham, Houston, Geneva, Jakarta, Milan, oh the places you’ll go for coffee. And luckily for some, there may be a little extra coffee on the way there, as American Airlines is bringing back espresso service aboard some of their flights.
As reported by MSN, American Airlines will be offering “specialized coffee drinks made in a real espresso machine” that will be available upon request. American had previously served espresso aboard select flights but discontinued the service during the COVID-19 pandemic. But with its return, American is expanding its availability.
Before it was discontinued, AA only offered espresso drinks in its “true first-class cabins” on their Airbus A321T and Boeing 777-300ER fleet. Now, espresso service is set to be provide on board all American’s Boeing 787s as well as their Boeing 777-200, Boeing 777-300, 787 and A321T planes. These planes are generally used for American’s international and premium transcontinental flights. And for the first time, espresso is available to business class passengers.
Of course this means you have to be fly business class, which not everyone does, and you have to be okay with espresso from a pod machine, the quality of which is always suspect. But I’m a fervent believer that the best place to drink bad coffee is in an airplane. Maybe it’s the elevation—it makes tomato juice taste good so it’s not the wildest theory—but I crave that charred bitter mess every time I’m a mile high. I think the real question, for me at least, is who is going to sit in business class and will you send an espresso to me in the back of the plane?
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
