I’m a flight attendant — here’s our emergency hack for covering up passenger poop smells

Grounds — for dismissal.

If you have ever been in an airplane’s lavatory and noticed a bag of coffee beans or grounds on a shelf, as one puzzled Reddit user did on their flight, chances are it hasn’t spilled out of a passenger’s carry-on.

Instead, and in a world where bouts of uncontrollable diarrhea are bringing down airplanes , the aroma-filled baggies are a flight attendant’s greatest, TSA-friendly weapon against smells on a plane.

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“Coffee contains nitrogen, which helps neutralize odors in the air quickly and safely,” according to El Dorado Coffee Roasters . “It actually can help absorb other smells in the environment as well.”

In some cases of true stink from a bathroom, flight attendants will also brew exceptionally strong coffee as a deterrent.

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The tactic has been used on Norwegian Airlines, according to The Sun .

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The flight blog, ViewFromTheWing had a reader submit their own experience with this outside of the plane’s facilities as well.

The traveler brought a rather odiferous bag of Chik-Fil-A onboard and when a flight attendant came by to collect his garbage, “crushed up a bag of coffee grounds, opened the overhead bin, and placed the bag directly over my head.”

On another Reddit thread , a former airline worker commented that this tactic is typically extended to passengers who reek of BO as well.

“If you see coffee filter bags hanging anywhere [it’s] because someone smells like open a-s somewhere on the plane.”

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