B757 Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Flight Instructor; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 165; Flight Crew Total 14700; Flight Crew Type 5800
No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types
General None Reported / Taken
Aircraft; Company Policy
During the first pilot crew bathroom break the Purser stated and the pilots observed large pools of water on the forward galley floor. The Purser said that since the company stopped boarding dry ice to keep the beverage ice frozen (a management cost saving measure of about 2.5 million/year); the beverage ice melts and sloshes out of the bin onto the galley floor during a normal takeoff. This problem is compounded on flights with no galley update/refresh like to the outer Hawaiian Islands. The Purser also stated the aft galley develops the same water hazard during landing with normal deceleration/stopping forces. Apparently the forward galley has the beverage ice bin forward; and the aft galley has the beverage ice bin aft. Without dry ice the beverage ice does not stay frozen. This creates a seriously unsafe working environment for flight attendants and a potentially catastrophic fire safety hazard. The forward galley floor with large pools of standing water is directly over the bay. On a 180 minute ETOPS flight; imagine an in-flight electrical short and fire without a near airport to immediately land. Recommend management reconsider using dry ice to keep beverage ice frozen on long flights and/or for turn flights without a galley refresh.
B757 First Officer is informed by the Purser that since the company no longer puts dry ice in the beverage ice drawer; the ice melts and splashes onto the galley floor during takeoffs and landings.