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Category Archives: Airline Meals

Airline Meals

Should Airlines Limit What Food You Can Bring Onboard When They Refuse To Serve Food?

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 5, 2020 24 Comments
Airlines Limit Food Onboard

The question is simple: is it reasonable to for airlines to limit the kind of food you can bring onboard when most are unwilling to serve food (or offer it for purchase) onboard? Do Airlines Want Us To Starve?...

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Airline Meals

Why Meal Service Matters, Even On Late Evening Flights

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 12, 2019December 12, 2019 36 Comments
United Airlines First Class Meal Cutbacks

My trip from Philadelphia to Los Angeles via Chicago on United this week demonstrates how limited meal service windows can leave passengers very hungry, even in first class. I needed a late flight out of Philadelphia because I had...

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Airline MealsLufthansa

Lufthansa Slashes Meal Service In Economy + Premium Economy (As Competition Improves)

Matthew Klint Posted onNovember 6, 2019November 6, 2019 30 Comments
Lufthansa Meal Cutbacks

Lufthansa is “optimizing” the pre-arrival meal service in economy class and premium economy class on longhaul flights. That’s bad news, since Lufthansa was already lagging behind its competition. Effective November 28, 2019, Lufthansa will only offer a cold vegetarian...

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Airline MealsUnited Airlines

United Adds Biscoff Cookies To Economy Class Snack Basket!

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 27, 2019August 27, 2019 7 Comments
United Airlines Biscoff Cookies

United is copying American and Delta, but in this case the news good: biscoff cookies will soon be available onboard for free. Stroopwafels, which United introduced onboard in 2017, have become a household name in the USA in part...

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Airline Meals

How Airlines Make In-Flight Food Tasty

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 27, 2019 10 Comments
Keeping Airline Food Tasty

Fly United this month and you can order a smoked beef and pork sausage link smothered in BBQ sauce and served on a pretzel roll. But its journey from kitchen to airplane demonstrates how difficult it is to offer...

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Airline MealsBritish Airways

British Airways CEO Proud That He Eliminated Free Food And Drink

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 4, 2019May 4, 2019 27 Comments
British Airways Celebrates Onboard Food

British Airways’ CEO Alex Cruz has no regret over cutting free food and drink from economy class on shorthaul flights. None at all. In an interview earlier this week, he claimed that negative passenger reaction “didn’t surprise me at...

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Airline MealsMalaysia Airlines

Airline Serves Raw Chicken, But I Blame Passenger For “Starving”

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 18, 2018August 18, 2018 11 Comments

We can draw an important lesson from a story of raw chicken served on a commercial flight. The UK Sun tells the story like this. 26-year-old Jamie Farrar ordered chicken satay on his flight from Bali to Kuala Lumpur on...

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Airline MealsAirport LoungesDelta SkyClub

The BEST Airport Lounge Breakfast I’ve Ever Had…

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 11, 2018August 11, 2018 22 Comments

I am careful to throw around the “best” adjective, but I cannot think of a better lounge breakfast than I had at the Delta Sky Club at LAX earlier this week. If you know me, you know I love...

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Airline MealsLufthansa

Eat Like An Astronaut on Lufthansa This Summer

Matthew Klint Posted onJuly 5, 2018July 5, 2018 3 Comments
Lufthansa Space Food

You remember eating that freeze-dried “space” food growing up? When I was a kid, that was a big gimmick. Well, space food is back…on an airplane. If you’re flying Lufthansa Business Class this summer, you’ll have the option of...

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Airline MealsBritish Airways

Passive-Aggressive Response from British Airways Over Breakfast Complaint

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 26, 2018 24 Comments

A man who complained about receiving a granola bar for breakfast on a $2.2K British Airways ticket was met with a cheeky response from British Airways. First, let’s start with the “breakfast”. I know that flights from New York...

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Airline MealsUnited Airlines

United Undoes First Class Meal Service Cutbacks

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 17, 2018May 18, 2018 14 Comments

A small reprieve for premium cabin flyers on domestic United flights: United is rescinding its recent meal service cutbacks. I was alerted to this via an e-mail received from a Global Services passenger who had complained about the recent...

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Airline MealsMeal of the WeekQatar Airways

Qatar Airways Shines in the Dark of Night

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 20, 2018January 20, 2018 5 Comments
Qatar Airways Business Class Dining

My final segment on my Qatar Airways “Golden Ticket” was a flight from Doha to Ho Chi Minh City aboard an A330 that departed at 2am. You might think catering would be more limited on an overnight flight departing...

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Airline MealsQatar Airways

Is Compensation Due When a FA Fails to Wake You Up to Eat?

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 17, 2018January 17, 2018 23 Comments
Compensation Missed Airline Meal

Is compensation due when a FA fails to wake you up to eat, as requested? As my Qatar Airways flight was entering final descent yesterday, one passenger was giving a FA a piece of her mind. She was livid...

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Airline MealsUnited Airlines

Livid Over a Stupid Airline Meal

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 15, 2017June 15, 2017 29 Comments
United Airlines Meal Prioritization

Repeat after me: it’s just an airline meal. It’s just an airline meal. I wish stuff like this did not bother me… I flew from Minneapolis to LA earlier this week on United. The flight was operated by a...

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Air BerlinAirline MealsEurowings

“We’re All Humans”: Air Berlin FA Feeds Me

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 10, 2017May 10, 2017 12 Comments

Earlier this week I flew Eurowings on an undisclosed route operated by Air Berlin. An unexpected and kind gesture from a FA really made my day. It was an afternoon flight and as is customary, no complimentary snack or...

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Airline MealsBritish AirwaysNews

The Death of the English Breakfast on British Airways’ Domestic Flights

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 12, 2017January 12, 2017 3 Comments
British Airways English Breakfast

Despite decades of cutbacks on British Airways, one thing remained untouchable: a proper English breakfast on UK domestic flights. If it seems odd that a full breakfast would be served to economy class passengers on a one hour flight between...

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Airline MealsLufthansaMeal of the Week

Christmas Dinner in Lufthansa First Class

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 21, 2016January 9, 2017 7 Comments
Lufthansa Christmas Goose

Christmas is coming on Sunday, so for this week’s Matthew’s Meal of the Week I am recalling a memorable Christmas dinner I enjoyed in Lufthansa First Class in late 2014. Each November and December, Lufthansa offers a traditional German...

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Airline MealsMeal of the Week

Succulent Steak on a Plane: LX17 from JFK-ZRH in First Class

Matthew Klint Posted onDecember 14, 2016March 8, 2017 Leave a Comment

A new weekly feature on Live and Let’s Fly starts today called “Matthew’s Meal of the Week”. Over the years I have collected thousands of airline meal pictures and I continue to gather them. Each week I will highlight...

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Airline MealsSouthwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines Snacks on Longer Flights

Matthew Klint Posted onMay 17, 2016December 5, 2016 8 Comments

Southwest Airlines is rather cryptic about its inflight food, providing the following info on its website– We offer a variety of inflight snacks and beverages to tempt your taste buds… Peanuts or pretzels are always complimentary as well as...

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Airline Meals

Full Hot Meal on a 1hr Economy Class Flight

Matthew Klint Posted onJanuary 15, 2016December 5, 2016 5 Comments

Hop on an 11.5hr flight from Newark to Honolulu on United Airlines in economy class and you’ll be given the choice to buy a meal or snackbox onboard.  Don’t want to spend anything? Coffee, tea, or soft drinks (and...

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