Message: | Not on American, surely.
The food on american carriers is certainly the worst. Of course, I've never flown on a Soviet airline before. But it seems the food, if not delicious, was more edible on SAS, British Airways, Air France, even Royal Air Maroc (or maybe I was still in bliss mode).
I've been known to stop by Dean & Deluca when returning from New York (or Gourmet Garage or the stalls in Grand Central) for plane snacks (or Shirokiya in Hawaii). Hey - we should compose a list of places to stop before going to the airport!
Although I must say I was pleasantly surprised when flying Virgin home from London last year: a seemingly endless parade of pretty darn good snacks: salmon parpardelle, grilled vegetable panini, mango and vanilla popsicles and on and on. The mango popsicle really put me over edge as I flipped the stations between a Clash documentary and a coupla movies and applied Virgin lip gloss. Sure, my knees were cramping up a bit in the tiny seats, but I only paid $250 for my ticket (on an online auction site)!
I'm sure this little kiss of luxury will diminish, if not disappear entirely in the near future, and I'll miss that.
But I have it easy - at least I'm not getting laid off like my airline employed girlfriend! (yet!?) |