Comments on: Food flight — Cashless in cabins, Air Canada leads with online meal vouchers

By: Colin Hall

Colin Hall — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 07:17:18 +0000

Personally I use an international flight as an excuse to fast. I do not touch food for 24 hours prior to the flight and I do not eat for 12 hours afterwards. I find that this practice leaves me feeling refreshed after a long haul (I often travel from UK to Japan), with no jet lag and none of that heavy feeling after eating 2 meals without exercise.

I’ve also eaten street food in India and never had any ill effects … I’m sure that this little fasting routine prepares my system for the new regime and boosts my metabolism.

Cheers

Colin

By: William

William — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:13:15 +0000

Way to go Jack, I’m glad there are some people out there who understand that pretty much every airline out there is losing money on actual passenger transportation. The only place where they can make money is in the points program, maintenance facilities, or international investments. Having divested each, Air Canada likely will not survive the next decade. Airlines might be selling plastic wafers aptly named “crackers” and god-only-knows-what packaged as “meat” for meals; but there’s more money to be made doing that than fitting 200 people in a metal tube and blasting them around for insanely low prices compared to the actual cost. Just for comparison, a big jet like the Boeing 777 will burn more gas taxiing from the gate to the runway than your car would driving around the entire planet, and we aren’t even airborne yet. Suddenly that $800 ticket seems like a bargain.

By: Jack Roberts

Jack Roberts — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:50:06 +0000

Im guessing when people are willing to pay for the actual cost of flying the airlines will serve real food Robert. As long as the airlines are forced to behave like walmart and cut each others throat so the bottom rung doesnt have to take a grayhound then be prepared for crap service,crap food, crap planes, and maybe even crap pilots.

The last thing people should be complaining about with these historic low fares is the food.

See pilots on foodstamps on youtube.

or flying for cheap on PBS

By: Dennis Schaal

Dennis Schaal — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:02:41 +0000

Robert: Well, the other question is: Does the food being served today differ from airline food of, say, two or three years ago?

My critical food reviews normally appear in big glossy magazines. Well, not really, but it sounded good.

By: RobertKCole

RobertKCole — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:31:17 +0000

Based on recent experience, I believe you are using a very loose interpretation of the term “meals”… Conventionally, that would imply food and logically, some form of nutrition.

When an airline can only identify a meal only by referring to its general zoological class (skipping the species, genus or family) there are some issues…

Idea for Tnooz investigative report: Looking for nutritional value in airline food. You could offer a big reward if any Tnooz nodes could find some and produce an authenticated sample…