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Full Lunch on 35-Minute Lufthansa Flight

Matthew Klint Posted onJune 23, 2018November 14, 2023 10 Comments

Yesterday, I flew Lufthansa from Frankfurt to Munich in order to catch a longhaul home to Los Angeles. Expecting a light snack, I was surprised when a hearty meal was served…on a 35-minute (wheels up to wheels down) domestic flight departing at 10:15a. That’s the subject of this week’s Meal of the Week.

Last time I flew from Frankfurt to Munich in business class, I was served a slice of cake with coffee and a plastic fork…a traditional German afternoon meal and perfectly suitable for such a short flight.

a piece of cake on a plate

I was expecting the same thing yesterday. Instead, however, I received a platter containing several lunch items. The tray included four courses.

a tray of food on a table

First, a chicken liver pate with orange sauce and cole slaw.

a plate of food on a table

Second, potato salad with mini shrimp and chives.

a plate of food on a tray

Third, cheese with preserves.

a plate of food on a table

Finally, a tapioca cream dessert.

a bowl of food with red food in it

Unlimited hot bread was also offered.

a loaf of bread on a tray

And even a box of chocolate commemorating the World Cup:

a box on a table

Quite a meal for such a short flight, isn’t it? I had just enjoyed a large in the meal in the lounge and did not eat much, though I don’t think this tray would win any health awards.

a tray of food on a table

CONCLUSION

I love that full meals are still served on such short flights within Europe. In an age of cutbacks on domestic U.S. flights, it’s always a novelty to me, and refreshing, to see full-service. I’d still trade it for “real” business class seats instead of simply economy class seats with blocked middles.

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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10 Comments

  1. WR2 Reply
    June 23, 2018 at 12:53 pm

    I personally would rather let the airline cut such frivolous costs, and get some of it back in a lower fare. Nobody is going to starve after 35 minutes. Airline meals are a waste of resources for anything less than 2 hours.

  2. NB Reply
    June 23, 2018 at 1:41 pm

    @WR2. I have the precise opposite view. Business class caters to busy business people. You rush from a meeting to a plane, leaving the meeting perhaps at 12 with a flight at 1:30. You then rush from the first plane to another plane leaving FRA at say 3:30. When are you going to have lunch? That’s why food is catered on business class flights.

    Contrast that with the appalling “First” Class on US airlines where you get given a banana if you are lucky. Instead you have to arrive at the airport with extra time in order to buy some disgusting processed slop in the airport fast food outlet. Having catering is the only reason to fly a premium class on a short flight.

  3. JBJ Reply
    June 23, 2018 at 2:06 pm

    @NB That is very well reasoned. Its really the only benefit to euro biz.

    Also, not terribly unhealthy either with the small portions. Its at least not a cheese sauce or other such US entree!

  4. Donald Reply
    June 23, 2018 at 5:41 pm

    Saddened you ate none of it. Was it all just thrown away?

    • Matthew Reply
      June 23, 2018 at 9:04 pm

      I ate some of it.

      • Donald Reply
        June 24, 2018 at 2:09 am

        It’s a shame you didn’t know to save room.

        • ao Reply
          July 4, 2018 at 6:18 am

          Smart!

  5. 747always Reply
    June 24, 2018 at 1:54 am

    Chicken liver pate, not patty

  6. Phil Duncan Reply
    June 24, 2018 at 7:35 am

    When LH installed the current NEK seating on the shorthaul fleet they acknowledged that for business class it was a downgrade on what had gone before. At the same time and to make up for that they promised to upgrade the catering and did.

    Now quite a few years down the line the improved catering remains so they have kept their part of the bargain and their catering is generally well above average. Like many I expected the improvements to last for a short while and then be ‘enhanced’ but that hasn’t happened.

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