Airline grub worth paying for
I know, I know. Most of you could care less about US Aiways food stories. You tell me every time I write one. But I can’t help it. Especially since I’ll be eating it again tomorrow. US Airways stopped giving out horrible free food several months ago and started offering not so horrible food for sale. The menu changes periodically too. Right now, coachers get a choice of a walnut chicken salad sandwich and some kind of antipasto thing with fresh(ish) mozzarella and tomatoes, prosciutto and artichoke hearts. Really quite tasty. They’re 7 bucks, which ain’t cheap, but it beats the $5 snack-box-of-crap (which is all US Airways offers on the way from St. Thomas to the states.)
Fly another airline? Tell me what they serve you on the way down. I might develop coach envy.
January 24th, 2008 01:11
Processed meat - guarantee it has sodium nitrite in it- not good. Usair wants to impress me they will have to go organic.
January 24th, 2008 05:41
Don’t you just love those little butterfly crackers? Looks much better than the canned chicken salad we got 8 weeks ago. Thanks guys!
January 24th, 2008 07:01
“snack-box-of-crap” Sounds like Delta from ATL the last time we flew. Crackers, evil processed cheese, evil bread-like substance, evil air.
We fly home 1st class in August and the bastards don’t even serve food up there! I spent NOTHING to get that ticket (FF Miles)! I WANT FOOD!
Oh…they offer free booze?
My bad. It’s a’ight.
January 24th, 2008 09:17
I had that “antipasto” thing in December, not too bad at all, but I really didn’t have a choice because they had nothing else to offer!! They had ran out of everything else!!? Ran out? Don’t they know how many people are booked? On the way home our flight was supposed to have a “meal”. They passed out packages of pretzels (well I think it contained maybe 5 mini-pretzels). My husband asked what the meal was going to be and the attendant said “I don’t know…what are you having when you get home” WHAT??? Glad I packed some protein bars.
January 24th, 2008 09:39
We usually fly United or American since we are in Chicago - American definitely has the better food choices. (Note: “Better” is a relative term here.)
We try and eat in the airports rather than buy stuff on the plane because there are more choices. (Note: “Choices” is a relative term here.)
Oh, who am I kidding - it all sucks.
January 24th, 2008 09:47
Hmmm…that actually looks somewhat edible.
I always pack food for us when we fly though, because you never know what they are going to have, even to buy. I usually pack us each an orange, some pistachios, and a simple sandwich with no smelly or messy ingredients on crusty bread. It’s enough to get us where we are going. Usually.
January 24th, 2008 10:37
yeah that actually looks decent. we’re flying first class on delta in november so I’ll let you know what they serve…all I really care about is the free booze, if I drink enough it won’t matter what they serve me to eat.
January 24th, 2008 11:07
The restaurant on the airport grounds- you have to walk to it outside on the sidewalk- has some of the best food in the usvi. And that is coming from your truly, a foodie who makes trips to France for culinary delights, and lives half my life in Whole Foods in the mainland. Get to St. Thomas early when departing and get your full there- you won’t be disappointed.
January 24th, 2008 20:31
Just returned from the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas on an AA 777. Culinary choices were:
A can of Pringles
3 Musketeer Bar
or Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
mmmmm . . . . we chose 4 Barbie sized Chardonnay’s for $20
January 24th, 2008 21:21
Oddly, I had a rather wonderful food service surprise two weeks ago. On a flight from Sarasota, FL, on Continental Air (I didn’t even know this airline existed anymore!), to Cleveland, we were served a lunch. Not fancy but totally shocking. And free. Oh, I got some peanuts later in the flight, too.
I vote for Continental. Too bad they don’t fly from Chicago to STT.
January 24th, 2008 21:21
That looks half way decent.
I bring PBJ’s and milk. That salad may cause issues down the road if you catch my drift.
January 28th, 2008 10:08
When I flew Delta from ATL to STT a few months ago, I got some stale crackers and processed cheese spread with some cran-apple cocktail (that I had to arm wrestle the guy next to me for!)
When I’m starving and trapped on a plane for four hours I’d pay $7 for some nitrates and fresh-ish cheese!
(One time on American my flight took off three minutes after 8 p.m., which is the deadline to even buy food. By the time I got to Vegas, I ate the first thing I could find in the airport. Luckily it was Ethel M chocolates.)