outrageous. IB quits meals….

Hi,

Nope. BY charge £5 eachway for a hot meal.

If the meal is good its worth paying £10.

Nationwide Air

Originally posted by T5
I think meals on shorter flights i.e. those under 2 or 2.5 hours should not be served meals. Snacks should be sold to those who do get hungry during the flight, but fill up on fast food at the airport and you won’t be hungry for a few hours, so meals aren’t necessary. When you’re flying for hours on end, you need something (included in the price) to keep you going.

Yes…in my opinion they should differ this situation depending on time of flights. Afternoon and night flights should be with lunch and dinner.

I think meals on shorter flights i.e. those under 2 or 2.5 hours should not be served meals. Snacks should be sold to those who do get hungry during the flight, but fill up on fast food at the airport and you won’t be hungry for a few hours, so meals aren’t necessary. When you’re flying for hours on end, you need something (included in the price) to keep you going.

Swiss now charge for inflight meals in Economy on Shorthaul (ie European) flights.

Thats bloody Hi’way robbery

Nope. BY charge £5 eachway for a hot meal. They used to charge £10 perperson for a coach transfer from the airport to your hotel too

Originally posted by A330Crazy
Britannia charge for meals. £10!

You are joking

Originally posted by im going in
I believe the approx cost for a charter meal is £3, an average sized uk charter airline will carry 4 million pax, so total catering costs per year £12 million. Not a cheap part of airline ops, can’t blame airlines for charging.

Yes but they are hardly giving these meals away for free, even if no actual money changes hands in flight. Which is why I ask if the price of the meal will be deducted from the price of the ticket ? Or do the airlines really think we customers believe in the “free lunch” concept.

In context I agree that an airline should charge for an in-flight meal, however, it should be charged extra on the ticket price, which it probably already is. It costs airlines money to serve a meal to every person onboard and half the time people waste the actual meal, what is the point for the airline to waste a meal and money like that? If you charge for the meal service then that it is unlikely as people will not waste food because they want full value.

I wouldn’t agree to having to buy your own meal onboard as it just leaves airlines to low cost carriers, what is the difference of flying a carrier such as Iberia if the low cost carrier can offer you the same service and at a cheaper price? In general, a national carrier should retain the same level of service but I believe a certain price should already be included. Either way it is a no wins situation. Give the passenger a meal and they will complain about the taste and its quality, take away the food and you have hell to pay :confused:

Originally posted by im going in
can you blame them?

probably not…but seems thet forgot this move is going against the passenger.

Given the taste of most econ class meals, I wouldn’t pay for a meal. My advice: pack your own lunch. I once took some pizza onboard and asked the f/a to warm it up. I got a few hungry stares…I’ll give you a piece for $20! It’s better than the peanuts or pretzels. Didn’t one have to pay for food in the romantic days of passenger train and ship travel?

When you say the approximate cost of a charter meal is £3, do you mean to the passenger or to the airline?

We decided some months ago that charging for meals, especially on charters was an advantage because it allowed passengers to forget the optional extras, bringing the cost of the holiday down. Much like transfers to/from the airport ar £10 per person.

But for Iberia, a bad move in my opinion. You expect this from a national carrier.

I believe the approx cost for a charter meal is £3, an average sized uk charter airline will carry 4 million pax, so total catering costs per year £12 million. Not a cheap part of airline ops, can’t blame airlines for charging.

Hi,
I think quality is going out of the window with some airlines.

Thanks

Thomas Cool

Will they be taking the cost of the meal from the cost of the ticket… ?

Nope I didn’t think so.

UK charters (with exception to a few) have charged £15 for a meal on long-haul flights for well over a year now. Some of the US carriers (hint:United) have already tested this method and seriously considering this move for their big short haul networks.

I would think that this would not be acceptable in europe as we are not used to “quick hops” all of the time when we fly abroad.

can you blame them?

wow…getting too profit-minded i see.

Britannia charge for meals. £10!

Swiss did the same, KLM and Austrian are about to do the same. I think this is the way the industry will go.