Some people like it, some people hate it but plane food is for many a necessary evil. Depending on how or who you travel plane food can be exceptional or just plane wrong. Personally I've had a varied platter from the passable economy sandwiches in British Airways to the Exquisite delicacies of Etihad in Business.
Perhaps the clue here is the class of travel. In cattle class you get what you're given some would describe as Sh** in a bowl or perhaps that's the after effects you feel after the meal. The only real choice you get in Economy are the special meal options as long as you order in advance with many airlines.
Travel in business and upwards and your experience is a very different experience where you are waited on hand and foot and where the cabin crew can't enough for you with their different teas to choose from. Most airlines spend the majority of the food budgets on the premier classes end of the industry and mass produce the rest.
Let's not run down economy though as some airlines from what I've experienced and heard get it right like Etihad and Emirates or even BA. They're catering is definitely easy on the old stomach a lesson many airlines could learn.
I've been lucky not to have had too bad an experience but one airline I flew recently in coach served its tea in these cheap cups so flimsy when I tasted the tea I was drinking half tea, half polystyrene. Needless to say a crappy cup of tea.
How about your experiences, good and bad?
No comments:
Post a Comment