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Airline Food - Best & Worst

Discussion in 'Hotel and Travel reviews' started by Micawber, Feb 18, 2012.

  1. Micawber
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    Micawber Renowned Lifetime Member

    A panel of international travellers has declared that the best on board food is served by Turkish Airlines, according to Skyscanner.

    The flight comparison site included 19 international airlines from all corners of the world in the study and ranked them according to the scores they received from passengers

    More than 100 passengers from around the world were asked to score the airline food on presentation and taste.

    Turkish Airlines took first place with a score of 86% for its menu which includes such dishes as stuffed eggplant and walnut pear tart. As well as standard meals, the airline also offers a range of special meals including children’s, Kosher, vegetarian and seafood options.

    In second place is Singapore Airlines, on which Gordon Ramsay has previously offered his expertise as part of their culinary panel, while Etihad took third place ahead of UAE rival Emirates which came in 5th behind Aer Lingus.

    The full ranking:-


    Airline.......................Score

    Turkish Airlines.............86

    Singapore Airlines.........81

    Etihad.........................80

    Aer Lingus...................78

    Emirates......................77

    Cathay Pacific...............75

    KLM.............................75

    Qantas.........................72

    Aeroflot........................71

    Air France.....................70

    Iberia...........................65

    SAS.............................64

    United Airlines........ ......62

    British Airways..............60

    Qatar Airways...............57

    Virgin Atlantic................57

    Alitalia..........................54

    Lufthansa......................53

    American Airlines...........47.5


    Mary Porter Skyscanner’s food expert and one half of pop up restaurant Kitchen Porter’s, comments:

    “The stereotype of the barely edible inflight meal appears to be a thing of the past. In today’s highly competitive marketplace airlines have to stand out from one and another, ensure the passengers’ on board experience is a positive one and ultimately generate customer loyalty.

    Inflight meals are a key way of doing this and recent years have seen a huge investment in this area with many leading chefs being brought on board by airlines to help develop their offering.
    “This investment in food appears to have been successful – many reviewers in our study described food as being ‘delicious’ or ‘tasty’ and over half of the airlines included in the study achieved a score of 70% or more.”

    Watch a picture montage of the airline meals and passenger comments below.

    Mary Porter Skyscanner’s food expert and one half of pop up restaurant Kitchen Porter’s, comments:

    “The stereotype of the barely edible inflight meal appears to be a thing of the past. In today’s highly competitive marketplace airlines have to stand out from one and another, ensure the passengers’ on board experience is a positive one and ultimately generate customer loyalty.

    Inflight meals are a key way of doing this and recent years have seen a huge investment in this area with many leading chefs being brought on board by airlines to help develop their offering.
    “This investment in food appears to have been successful – many reviewers in our study described food as being ‘delicious’ or ‘tasty’ and over half of the airlines included in the study achieved a score of 70% or more.”

    Watch a picture montage of the airline meals and passenger comments below.

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  2. oss
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    I think when my Flying Blue miles are gone I will try Singapore Airlines maybe even before then, as it is I have experience of two of them Emirates and KLM, from memory Emirates was just ok, KLM have generally been good but that is a qualified good for food that is kept hot or reheated on an airplane, I find that Chicken dishes often struggle to reheat well on flights, something about the meat and ingredients never seems to come up with an appealing flavour


    In my earlier days on KLM this meal was a particularly nice one :) and they do some really good deserts

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