Airline Food - Article on Gate Gourmet

Article in today's Independent. It seems it's all the airlines' fault.

Well yes it is their (the airlines) fault as they decide what to serve and how its served etc. GG have, as the article says, no control over the CC who may be over-cooking the food. CC may start the ovens as the plane taxis expecting to serve it an hour later but all that goes to pot if there are ground delays or turbulance what delays the service.

I saw a documentary a few years ago about airline food and one person from the customer service dept asked for an olive to be added to the side salad - a single olive to add some flavour - one of her colleagues taped his calculator and simply said - $ 40,000.

The olive was left off the salad!

It seems it's all the airlines' fault.

It does seem that way, whatever anyone does I cant imagine :0 40000 :0 meals daily in Y could be anything other than just ok :$

cheers

alex

"A bit of theatre in the air".

Gimme a break.

[mitchja]

There's also only a limited numbers of ways of serving chicken, beef or pasta!!!!

[Darren Wheeler]

There's also only a limited numbers of ways of serving chicken, beef or pasta!!!!

Really? I thought there was only one way.

From what I remember, aircraft ovens have 3 settings.

Off
Warm
Thermo-nuclear.

well any dish you can make with beef you can probbaly make with chicken (and vice versa).

I can't remember which airline it was but I was in Y and both the beef and chicken dishes came with pasta !

And on a VS flight to SFO in PE in the bubble we were offered 'vegetarian coq au van'

Perhaps the new generation ovens, as fitted to Air NZ's 777's will help make things better on the food re-heating front?

Economy meals are [made] in Frankfurt, frozen, and delivered by the lorry-load to Gate Gourmet's Heathrow facility

So even the meals route through Frankfurt to avoid the UK's ridiculously high APD charges

Economy meals are [made] in Frankfurt, frozen, and delivered by the lorry-load to Gate Gourmet's Heathrow facility

So even the meals route through Frankfurt to avoid the UK's ridiculously high APD charges

APD = A Passengers Dinner?

I remember reading somewhere last month that virgin were planning on improving their meal service from August? Is there any truth in this?