Premium meals are back on the menu at the nation's airlines after they pared back offerings for COVID-19 safety. Expect a different dining experience.
Full airline menus are back — but say goodbye to pre-meal cocktails, warm cookies and a lot of chitchat with your flight attendants.
“I miss that smell in the cabin,” Los Angeles resident Anasia Obioha said as she reminisced about the American Airlines chocolate-chip cookies that were missing from her recent flights.Obioha, who works in corporate communications, said her meals on several first-class flights to and from Mexico reminded her of the lunches served on trays in the cafeteria in elementary school. All her dishes were prepackaged and cold, she said.
These passengers are highly coveted because they often book high-price last-minute tickets and buy the most expensive seats at the front of the plane. In the aisle, instead of pouring drinks into plastic cups from food carts, flight attendants are now handing passengers throughout the plane full cans or bottles of beer, soda, wine or hard seltzer to eliminate the pouring time.
American Airlines has stopped selling alcoholic beverages in the main cabin at least until Jan. 18, and Southwest Airlines has paused all alcohol sales indefinitely, partly in response to a growing number of incidents of unruly passengers thatDelta has stopped offering premium passengers cocktails before a meal. Now beverages are served with the meals to reduce the contact between passengers and flight attendants.
Alaska’s chief financial officer, Shane Tackett told analysts in an earnings conference call June 30 that the airline was about to return to “our full catering complement.”
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