Frontier Airlines passengers got sick after reportedly drinking bad airport water

Interesting the press jumps on Frontier. If it is an airport issue, what does Frontier have to do with it? Then again,what about passengers on other airlines using that location on that date??

They had the fish instead of the chicken. Sorry, couldn't help myself on that.
On a serious note, I just read that although Spirit hasn't had pax illness coming from CLE but they are also investigating.

I think we need General Ripper to investigate this. It sounds like loss of essence to me.

You shouldn't drink water; Fish urinate in it

Am I missing something? All the pax were on one plane, though one poster also refers to a Spirit plane, also, perhaps, maybe. The chances of getting bad water on the plane (coffee) is much greater than getting bad water at the airport itself. Sounds like we're acting in "an abundance of caution" as the lawyers like to say these days.

Concourse A serves, Frontier, Spirit, Allegiant and Icelandic.
Frontier has the gates at the far end of the concourse. There is 1 water fountain at that end, so I guess it's possible only Frontier passengers could be affected.

FWIW, doesn't it takes a couple of hours for a food/waterborne illness to show up?
A CLE to TPA is about 2.5 hours long, and considering when anything onboard would be served, if the illness was from anything served onboard, seems pretty quick.
I'm just sayin' :)

the article is not very clear..i am guessing the water fountains at the airport were not clean or were contaminated with something causing the vomiting??water served on the airplanes is bottled, but they do get "potable water", as its called at the terminal to fill resovoirs for coffee,etcetera..strange..if frontier is the main carrier using those gates that is probably the reason frontier is mentioned...

Headline: "Frontier Airlines passengers got sick and vomited on a flight after reportedly drinking bad airport water" Fifth paragraph: "However, Cleveland Airport spokeswoman Michele Dynia told CNN that it has shut down a handful of water fountains for out of caution. However, the publication also noted that health officials are still unsure the exact cause of the illness." This is a case of news agencies that prefer to report it first and wrong as opposed to second and correct. Who needs to wait around to get all the facts?

Stagnant water sitting in small diam, low flow, and/or very long CW supply lines to DFs or EWCs may be the source of contamination. If all sickened flyers used the same airport DF or EWC, they should band together and demand a settlement from the airport, or hire a qualified attorney.

People will do anything to get out of paying for something.

Most likely from E Coli that grows in the potable and coffee water tanks. They are supposed to be checked regularly but i am sure they are not..

I wasn’t clear on this. Did they get on the plane or in the Airport. I think I understood inflight, I bet they drank from sink in the lav.. that would absolutely do this. The airport is being testing water fountains though. It could’ve been anything in sink basin or the handle was contaminated

Hi lovely peeps. I honestly feel bad for these people. However until the source of contamination is exactly proven/tested. We really do not know what has caused this. As mentioned it can be the water used in tea or coffees. Let’s hope this is sorted very soon.