2022
I'm not talking about airlines serving you a meal, because come on, which airline serves amazing food in economy class? In addition to that, with the abundance of low-cost or budget airlines, and everyone wanting to travel for cheap, many airlines now do not serve food for free. In fact, even the non-budget airlines in North America will not serve food for free if the flight is five hours or shorter! Five hours is a really long time to go with no food or snacks. And if you're unlucky, your flight may have been delayed and now more than five hours have passed! This is usually the case with me since...I'm always someone how a flight that is delayed! Water, juice, and soda can only do so much. The paid meals or snacks also often do not look very appetizing. I have actually been on some flights where they told other customers the airline has ran out of certain types of food! So...what to do?
1. Purchase food in the airport.
On my most recent adventure, I was in Toronto, waiting for a flight to return home. Shortly after arriving at the airport, I was informed that the entire airport was shut down, no flights were going in an out from the airport at this point. This is also a longer flight, five hours to get back to Vancouver, and now it'll be even longer since we don't know when we're leaving. I had decided to purchase some pad Thai from the airport.
It may not look like it was very much, but it was very densely packed! I finished most of this and was very glad that I had gotten some food because my flight was delayed by almost two hours. And the reason? Rain apparently...
2. Bring/Purchase food before you get to the airport
On this same trip, when I was going to the airport, I actually went to one of my favourite Chinese style BBQ restaurants in Vancouver to order take away. Again, this was a five hour flight from Vancouver to Toronto and no food is served. Air Canada isn't considered a budget airline but only water, juice, and soda is complementary. Here's my food
There are three kinds of meat there, from left to right, BBQ duck, soya chicken and BBQ pork (sometimes we call this char siu). It is sitting on some rice that has sweet soya sauce. Usually, if the sweet soya sauce is done right, eating just sauce and rice is amazing too. I think the people sitting in front or behind me got very jealous of the food because it does smell delicious. But I was flying in the afternoon and during dinner time...so I definitely needed some food! And again, my flight was delayed, so the journey was longer than I had planned for, so it was great to have some food with me!
I used to do something similar too when I flew with the budget airlines in Europe, like Easyjet or Ryanair. Though most often, I would buy something like a meal from Sainsburys or Boots within the airport, that way I would also have a drink too, since neither of these airlines served water or any sort of beverages. Most security and airlines will also let you bring on some food as well, even if it was beyond your allowed luggage for carry-on. And for me, when I fly to the US from Canada, I have also purchased the BBQ foods on the flight too but since I cross customs and immigration in Canada, I do declare that I have meat with me and have never had a problem.
So what about you? What is your best meal on an airplane? Has anyone had the luxury of trying business or first class meals on flights?
very nice post @Shirley
yeah i have try luxury business class meals but no photos 🙂 but i will next time
i share this photo from Turkish airline 🙂 but also no food just fished then remembered to take the photo
i try to choose the meal when i buy the plane ticket ,
if its economic i prefer not to eat at plane , waiting to arrive or eat something from airport before traveling
@MahabubMunna guess the movie 😉
