JetBlue ends hot food on trans-Atlantic flights - will others follow?

[Carolinian]

I have never flown TATL on Jet Blue, and this would be a major reason not to do so. Their cold meals do not sound appetizing at all. This should be a big boost for airport restaurants.

Millions won't get a hot meal on a long-haul flight anymore

A major US airline has scrapped hot meals for economy passengers flying to Europe.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I remember when Delta stopped with the free alcohol on TATL flights, and all the US carriers followed, but not the European ones. Will other carriers follow Jet Blue on this move?

 

[jwalk03]

I have never flown TATL on Jet Blue, and this would be a major reason not to do so. Their cold meals do not sound appetizing at all. This should be a big boost for airport restaurants.

Millions won't get a hot meal on a long-haul flight anymore

A major US airline has scrapped hot meals for economy passengers flying to Europe.

www.dailymail.co.uk

I remember when Delta stopped with the free alcohol on TATL flights, and all the US carriers followed, but not the European ones. Will other carriers follow Jet Blue on this move?

I’m on a Delta flight right now from Paris to the US and they have free wine. (Not sure about beer or other alcohol but definitely wine.)

(And free WiFi that is allowing me to type this!!)

 

[PigsDad]

I remember when Delta stopped with the free alcohol on TATL flights, and all the US carriers followed, but not the European ones. Will other carriers follow Jet Blue on this move?

When we flew TATL on United in June, it included free wine.

Kurt

 

[jorcus]

Since when did Jet Blue fly millions of passengers across the Atlantic?

Just flew transatlantic on Delta and hot meals were not very hot so maybe not a big stretch to serve cold ones.

 

[Carolinian]

When we flew TATL on United in June, it included free wine.

Kurt

In the old days, it included mixed drinks. When Delta started the trend, they axed everything alcoholic. I remember being on a flight out of Munich just after the change and when the stewardess came around and asked what I wanted to drink, I told her since they were now charging for alcohol, to give me a coke. The German sitting beside me then asked said he wanted a beer and asked if he had to pay for it. When she said yes, he got very irate, raised his voice, uttered some unkind words about Delta, told her that would never happen on Lufthansa, and that he would never fly Delta again. In the course of his comments, he mentioned what he had paid for his ticket, and he was paying a hefty amount for economy, probably last minute or something. Delta would have probably been better off letting him have a free beer.

Airline meals seen to be going downhill, generally, and in many cases were never that great. If I can work it to do so, I try to fly Austrian TATL as they seem to have the best meals. The last couple of times I flew Lufthansa, their meals had really gone downhill, so much so I did not eat them.

Some of the US airlines did come back and at least give wine or even beer with the meal, but not otherwise in economy.

 

[ScoopKona]

What a bogus story.

When was the last time anyone raved about the food on a plane? Considering all those sick passengers on that Delta flight a few weeks back, I'm guessing every actuarial has crunched the numbers and this is going industry wide.

I always stop and pick something up on the way to the airport. An overcooked, cardboard chicken breast in a way-too-sweet teriyaki sauce with mushy vegetables isn't worth the calories.

I'm not going to clutch pearls over something I didn't like in the first place. Airplane food hasn't been decent since before smoking bans. And you couldn't taste the food then, either, because the entire cabin smelled like a dirty ashtray.