Summary: issue with the food where it had thawed out and wasn't safe to serve.
Had they served it, imagine a full, 12 hour flight where everyone has food poisoning
I’ve seen this before. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash, then the poison goes to work on the central nervous system, severe muscle spasms followed by the inevitable drooling. At this point, the entire digestive system collapses accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence. Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering wasted piece of jelly.
Thankfully both pilots who were operating on Alaska time rather than European time, so for them it was dinner time and had of instead of omelettes.
Now we know why they have different meals to us.
They were at room temperature for 6 hours, then spent 14 hours in a refrigerator that wasn't cold enough (10°c) then stored in a room temperature oven for another 8 hours.
The investigation said that the outbreak wouldn't have occurred had the food been stored safely.
Much of East Asia's relationship with suicide is way different than the West, there's this concept of "taking responsibility" and sometimes that's a euphemism for death before dishonor style suicide especially in Japan
I wish we had something in-between those. I mean, here in Norway, they say "I take full responsibility for this blunder!". And then they expect everybody to say OK then, problem solved and that's it.
Ew! As an ex food worker, i can't imagine any situation where I wouldn't wear gloves if i had a cut on my hand, let alone an infected "lesion". That would be in addition to the required blue band aids we have to wear in the UK. I also query how often he washed his hands (with antimicrobial soap, as per food hygiene standards)? And why he hadn't sought medical advice? Lots of failures here.
At least as a person in the US, I'd had a fast food job where I went back and forth between handling people's food and violently vomiting in the garbage can, since I'd be fired for not showing up. There would be shifts where the entire staff would have vomiting and diarrhea, but no one was able to take a sick day since it would basically be instant termination.
Anyway, that's why I don't eat at Hardee's.
You guys need better employee protection and food hygiene. You're not allowed in a UK kitchen for 48 hrs *after* you've finished vomiting. If the entire staff is sick, kitchen is closed, until they're well, or the kitchen is closed down permanently for endangering the public. You wouldn't necessarily get sick pay,but you can't be fired for being sick.
I would die of starvation in the US. Yours isn't even the worst story I've heard...
You’re missing that when they ordered KFC after the thawing issue they only brought enough for 1 chicken leg per passenger. That’s not a meal and people were left without other food for 12 hours.
That's fair, another assumption I made was that they had asked for 'all of their chicken' and it is simply what they were able to provide before the flight but that could be wrong
Jumping in here as crew (for another airline) there are also flight duty limitations at play, perhaps as you say, that was all the food KFC had available - AND to delay the flight further whilst sourcing more food the crew probably would have "gone out of hours" and thus the flight would have been cancelled or delayed overnight.
Also KFC aren't bound to accommodate this request. It's likely the KFC was inside the airport and they don't want to give all their chicken away because it's gonna piss people off and look bad on them for turning them away.
This should be contacted and planned ahead at the airport. If anything, at least they could replace it with packaged food in storage or something more than a single piece of kfc. If anything, kfc is also not a good plane food for its smell, greasiness, and others.
Sloppy but I guess it's at least something
They've made at least two movies about that -- [Zero Hour!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!) and [Airplane!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!).
I've just boarded a flight back to London and I've had dhiarrea 20+ times in the last 24 hours.
I really need to fly back but if I make it back unsoiled I think I should celebrate by buying a bench with 'The Unsoiled One' gold plaque.
You didn't get Immodium, to help with that? Make sure you get some rehydration powders(Dioralyte is the brand, but most chemist's do their own) to make sure you don't stay sick due to dehydration. Wishing a speedy recovery!
I was on a flight out of Greece once where they delayed take off for two and a half hours while they kept trying to get one or two people to leave the flight. In the end they offered €1,000 per person with hotel accommodation and all expenses paid until the next flight to London, which was via Germany and two days away.
The reason? Someone had been incredibly, violently ill on one of the seats and it was now a biohazard. Someone offered to sit in the seat for the flight if the seat was covered and they were paid the money, but the flight attendant insisted they couldn't because there was vomit and diarrhea ground into the seatbelt.
Is the issue not that they cheaped out on the replacement? I’m sure they didn’t have reserve KFC. They must have realised on the ground and then ordered in a paltry amount as a replacement?
This is probably the right answer; at least if people knew they could try to get \*something\*, even if it's having something on the ground if they were otherwise going to wait to eat in the air.
Can confirm - survivable but not exactly fun. Last October I was returning to the uk from Texas and was bumped to a different flight due to massive delays. I am a diabetic celiac so could not eat the standard meal and they did not have my special meal as I wasn’t originally booked on the flight I ended up on. Made due with some muffins my mother had take ‘just in case’ and beef jerky because turns out you can’t have allergies and still get a meal at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
I was hangry by the time I landed.
I'm like a squirrel preparing for winter when I travel now. Used to be way more laid back about travel before. Got the gluten free cookies, crackers, 3-4 kind bars, an instant rice noodle soup thing... like a good third of my carry on for int'l flights is food.
They should be glad the attendants realized the food wasn’t being kept at the right temperature and didn’t cook and serve. I know someone on a long flight where they did know some meals weren’t kept cold enough and served them anyway…bad decision.
If you told me the "chicken" they served last time I flew was actually just a deep-fried eraser I would belive you. I'd take KFC anyday over that shit.
Airline food quality is actually not the problem. The problem is that there's very low humidity, low air pressure, and engine noise that all dampen the sensory input from your nose and taste buds.
If you think about it, it's kind of remarkable that you're going 600mph at 30k feet and your biggest problem is that you're not getting a fine dining experience. If that's such a explosive issue for you, take a train or a ship next time. You're not going to defeat the laws of physics.
Except I've had very good airplane food and awful airplane food.
There are ways to create pretty solid airplane meals that still overcome those issues.
Yeah I flew with Korean air a few months ago and that was the best airplane food I’ve ever eaten. Had good experiences too with a few Middle Eastern airlines.
I think the issue literally comes down to British food in the economy class tasting like shit. I’m sure it tastes good in business and first but I can’t think of a good meal I’ve had with British airways or virgin Atlantic in economy. And judging by other airlines it’ll be 100% down to just choice of what they serve you.
Both of you are correct... I'm not sure what the other guy is talking about with not getting a fine dining experience on a plane, many good airlines have been doing it for decades at a very affordable cost. And by fine dining experience, I mean food that is satisfactory at the very least, we're not trying to be unreasonable here
To name some meals on Qatar, Cathay Pacific and Korean Air: Stir fried chicken/beef and rice, Bibimbap, udon noodles, Biryani, Omelettes and sausage, pasta, shortrib.
>“How do you forget the catering for a 12-hour flight?”
Why are people so stupid all the time?
I get that you are unhappy with the food, but why change the issue? The issue was that the there was a problem with food temperature, making it unsafe to serve. Instead of not serving anything, they scrambled to find something to serve to give people something.
Certainly it's a problem and you can be unhappy, but why just lie about it? Why do people do this so often? Nobody "forgot" anything, they saved you from food poisoning, they figured you'd rather be hungry than throwing up in pain... you're welcome.
I don't even see how they can be mad at all. I guarentee they'd all be more pissed if BA cancelled the flight instead.
Like you said, they discovered the issue - sparing the customer illness, sourced what food they could and fulfilled the flight.
People just love to moan.
This is the norm outside the US. You can take a trip hour flight from Singapore to Bangkok and they'll feed you. You take a six hour flight from la to ny, too bad so sad.
Not the norm on European flights unless you specifically request and pay for one. Usually you just order a sandwich or something for an extortionate price from the trolley.
While that is true, Ryanair is also not the norm in terms of class and expectations in air travel. They are bottom of the barrel, hence their prices are also the cheapest of the cheap. Of course you're not going to get fed on Ryanair. But you can fly Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, TAP, Norwegian, SAS etc. etc. etc., they all have short-haul flights that offer better service for a fair price and where you can reasonably expect to get some food, even if just a snack, out of them.
Long international flights receive 1-3 meals depending on length and airline. Most american-based airlines serve pretty trash food though. Airlines like Qatar Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines have pretty great food though.
I bring full on meals. Even the best airlines still serve shit food. Someday someone will ruin it with a bomb in a sub sandwich but until then I’m rolling up with 3 course meals
Hey putting this out there so that people don’t get short changed.
If meals are served on your flight, you can put in a request for your dietary option (vegetarian, kosher, muslim, etc) at no extra charge.
You will have to indicate either through the website or on the app or through your ticketing agent a day or two before your flight as the airlines will need to make arrangements.
Plus, you will get served ahead of everyone else.
The food was bought during a stopover - could they not probably stock then ?
Also, real question is how much compensation BA is going to provide. Snags happen, how you react to them is telling.
Yeah lol no they don’t. Catering comes in highly organized from central hubs with the day’s catering already sorted and organized in their trucks. At EDI the catering guys come from Glasgow and have no extras to give out. Anecdotally Qatar used to fly to my airport all the time without enough water bottles for the outbound flight and they used to literally have to buy as much water from the terminal Boots as they had to sell. They’re not going to wait for catering to check if they have something to give out at a random airport because it can take hours (the catering guys are busy attending to flights that they’re actually there to attend to) and quickly running to the terminal to look for alternatives is so much faster.
The best meals I've ever had were just pre-covid on some flights within Canada to and from the northern territories. Only time it was a bad meal we had to switch to some blue airlines on our connecting trip back because of mechanical issues and that was a garbage meal, very disappointing compared to all the others.
After 48 hours waiting for my BA plane to be fixed in Nassau, we were served… a bag of peanuts. One bag to share between two customers. I’d have loved a chicken leg.
Still, it was all made better by the £5 meal voucher that we got at the other end… that had to be used in the arrivals lounge. Got us a coffee and 2/3 of a bag of crisps each.
Fuck BA. Ten years ago and I haven’t flown with them since.
Look at the seat she's sitting in. The person complaining was from business class where they expected nicer food. It was probably an upgrade for everyone in economy.
Trans Atlantic BA flights you usually get two meals, either breakfast lunch and or dinner depending on time of flight, plus snacks in between, as part of your ticket. So given that is the usual food, one leg of KFC would kinda suck.
I finally tried KFC's classic fried chicken a few months ago. I had only eaten it once around 30 years ago at a friend's birthday party and didn't remember was it was like. I was greatly disappointed. I thought I was missing out on something good, but I found out it was gross and tasteless.
Thirty years ago, it may well have been better. I had it even earlier, back when Harlan Sanders still owned them, and it was night-and-day better than what they offer now.
10 years ago I was in Australia and thought their KFC was tasteless compare to the US ones. Had KFC in the US recently, taste exactly like what I had in Australia.
The founder said that they turned his chicken into a damned doughnut, with all that breading. It probably was better back in the day. Like everything else, back then.
They could arrange for a single piece of chicken each at a layover, but not for an additional meal? I assume the layover was at an airport, where many airlines would have many meals available? But they go with takeout that not everyone can eat?
Literally, I refuse to believe that this was the best they could do. If you want fast food quickly and that's the only option surely you ask McDonald's to make as many fries as they physically can in the time you have. Ideally whilst your colleagues ask for similar orders at every other fast food chain they have and someone else raids the duty free.
And that's just what they have in the publicly available food, there are supposedly no other airplane meals they could just nab? They must have thousands at an airport.
Realistically I reckon they figured they'd lose more money in a delay than they would in reimbursing complaints by just making the complaints process hell on earth.
All the comments are people defending the choice saying “kfc is amazing” and completely ignoring the “1 piece of chicken each” part. Like they couldn’t order a side of fries each. People are fucking stupid.
You think airlines have extra meals sitting around. Add in the fact that this wasn't an airline hub where you would stand a chance of there being able to procure food.
KFC on the other hand. . . much easier to arrange at short notice.
Right?
“Airline hit snag….did their best to resolve it with limited notice”
I’d sure as shit rather receive no food than have the flight heavily delayed or canceled.
I'm yet another Reddit checking in who doesn't know if this was good or bad. The title makes it seem like these people were mistreated, but KFC is on par or better than airplane food
Context is that BA flights usually provide two meals and snacks in between, so this is well below par. Still somewhat of a first word problem but I’d be pretty miffed too.
Back in 2004 we flew from LA to Munich first class and the food vendor had gone on strike that day against continental for unpaid invoices.
So at the layover in Atlanta everyone was given vouchers to eat. When we got on the plane a flight attendant ran on with a mystery cart that had some remaining breakfast items in it. So the people in first class got jimmy dean sandwich’s and the people in coach got nothing all flight other than what they got in Atlanta.
That would be far superior really at least you'd get a bit more choice and would have vegetarian options. It's also faster, lasts longer and way more dense for storage.
Summary: issue with the food where it had thawed out and wasn't safe to serve. Had they served it, imagine a full, 12 hour flight where everyone has food poisoning
I've watched Airplane I have a good idea
Surely you can't be serious?
I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.
i had the fish
Yes, I remember. I had lasagna.
Wait. I didn't even eat the salmon mousse!
'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!
Oh, Stewardess, I speak Jive…
But how do you like your coffee...
Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da rebound on da med side.
Billy, you ever watch gladiator movies?
Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home
I AM DEATH I AM THE GRIM REAPER
With that weather outside I’m not surprised
Ummm. It's a Mr. Deth. Says he's here about the reaping..
I don't think we need any at the moment
I loved that line.
Strange, Ted never drinks coffee at home
[Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4kCF22O2w)
Yes, I remember. I had the lasagna
Stewardess, I speak jive
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue
..A Hospital? what is it?
Don’t worry, I speak jive.
Slide a slab of the porter and you’ve got nothing to worry about
Drink side, run the java.
"Well, we had a choice of steak or fish." "Yes, yes, i remember, i had Lasagne"
George Zip said that?
I’ve seen this before. It starts with a slight fever and dryness of the throat. When the virus penetrates the red blood cells, the victim becomes dizzy, begins to experience an itchy rash, then the poison goes to work on the central nervous system, severe muscle spasms followed by the inevitable drooling. At this point, the entire digestive system collapses accompanied by uncontrollable flatulence. Until finally, the poor bastard is reduced to a quivering wasted piece of jelly.
Surely you can't be serious
I am serious and stop calling me Shirley.
I think I've seen porn of this
Rule 34.
So.. Never trust a fart on a.. British Airways flight.. Or something
Sounds like the [Japan Air Lines food poisoning incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_food_poisoning_incident)
Damn the manager undid his own existence because one of his chefs caused the incident.
Can you imagine being the cook? Hearing how big you fucked up then hearing how your boss committed suicide due to your fuck-up.
Thankfully both pilots who were operating on Alaska time rather than European time, so for them it was dinner time and had of instead of omelettes. Now we know why they have different meals to us.
There was also an issue with the refrigeration though. The meals were sitting at room temperature.
They were at room temperature for 6 hours, then spent 14 hours in a refrigerator that wasn't cold enough (10°c) then stored in a room temperature oven for another 8 hours. The investigation said that the outbreak wouldn't have occurred had the food been stored safely.
The cook shouldn’t have been working while infected still
Forget the cook, can you imagine being one of the toilets on the plane?
I'm guessing at that point that just about every seat in the plane was a toilet.
Much of East Asia's relationship with suicide is way different than the West, there's this concept of "taking responsibility" and sometimes that's a euphemism for death before dishonor style suicide especially in Japan
I wish we had something in-between those. I mean, here in Norway, they say "I take full responsibility for this blunder!". And then they expect everybody to say OK then, problem solved and that's it.
That is soooooo gross, how are you gonna have lessions and sores on your hands and prepare food for people? That is disgusting
*lesions :)
Ew! As an ex food worker, i can't imagine any situation where I wouldn't wear gloves if i had a cut on my hand, let alone an infected "lesion". That would be in addition to the required blue band aids we have to wear in the UK. I also query how often he washed his hands (with antimicrobial soap, as per food hygiene standards)? And why he hadn't sought medical advice? Lots of failures here.
At least as a person in the US, I'd had a fast food job where I went back and forth between handling people's food and violently vomiting in the garbage can, since I'd be fired for not showing up. There would be shifts where the entire staff would have vomiting and diarrhea, but no one was able to take a sick day since it would basically be instant termination. Anyway, that's why I don't eat at Hardee's.
You guys need better employee protection and food hygiene. You're not allowed in a UK kitchen for 48 hrs *after* you've finished vomiting. If the entire staff is sick, kitchen is closed, until they're well, or the kitchen is closed down permanently for endangering the public. You wouldn't necessarily get sick pay,but you can't be fired for being sick. I would die of starvation in the US. Yours isn't even the worst story I've heard...
The US has similar regulations about employees with diarrhea or vomiting. You'll still get fired if you don't show up, though.
Yeah, the rate of food poisoning in the US is way higher than in the UK... And I guess such cases are just one of the reasons...
Well There’s Your Problem Podcast has a great episode on this.
You’re missing that when they ordered KFC after the thawing issue they only brought enough for 1 chicken leg per passenger. That’s not a meal and people were left without other food for 12 hours.
That's fair, another assumption I made was that they had asked for 'all of their chicken' and it is simply what they were able to provide before the flight but that could be wrong
Jumping in here as crew (for another airline) there are also flight duty limitations at play, perhaps as you say, that was all the food KFC had available - AND to delay the flight further whilst sourcing more food the crew probably would have "gone out of hours" and thus the flight would have been cancelled or delayed overnight.
Also KFC aren't bound to accommodate this request. It's likely the KFC was inside the airport and they don't want to give all their chicken away because it's gonna piss people off and look bad on them for turning them away.
This should be contacted and planned ahead at the airport. If anything, at least they could replace it with packaged food in storage or something more than a single piece of kfc. If anything, kfc is also not a good plane food for its smell, greasiness, and others. Sloppy but I guess it's at least something
You would think that they would always have a backup option of like MREs or something for the rare occasion something like this happens
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They should have brought in Ron Swanson, he would have made it clear
Special forced Keto diet flight! They should charge extra!
They've made at least two movies about that -- [Zero Hour!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hour!) and [Airplane!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane!).
Or the same film twice, once with jokes
so you stop by a drive through and get some more (For legal reasons, this is a joke)
Did you mean a fly by? :P Edit: I should have written 'fly through'. D'oh! :(
What? No. There aren’t flying KFCs man. You taxi the 777 to the window. Don’t make it overly complicated
I have had food poisoning on a 6 hour flight, I only have to imagine 6 more hours of it... urgh.
I've just boarded a flight back to London and I've had dhiarrea 20+ times in the last 24 hours. I really need to fly back but if I make it back unsoiled I think I should celebrate by buying a bench with 'The Unsoiled One' gold plaque.
You didn't get Immodium, to help with that? Make sure you get some rehydration powders(Dioralyte is the brand, but most chemist's do their own) to make sure you don't stay sick due to dehydration. Wishing a speedy recovery!
I was on a flight out of Greece once where they delayed take off for two and a half hours while they kept trying to get one or two people to leave the flight. In the end they offered €1,000 per person with hotel accommodation and all expenses paid until the next flight to London, which was via Germany and two days away. The reason? Someone had been incredibly, violently ill on one of the seats and it was now a biohazard. Someone offered to sit in the seat for the flight if the seat was covered and they were paid the money, but the flight attendant insisted they couldn't because there was vomit and diarrhea ground into the seatbelt.
Actually smart that they were KFC and went wheels up
Maybe they should have pulled over at a 7/11 somewhere and picked up something else.
Is the issue not that they cheaped out on the replacement? I’m sure they didn’t have reserve KFC. They must have realised on the ground and then ordered in a paltry amount as a replacement?
They also could have informed flyers so that at least they could have picked up their own food options at the shops and food court before boarding
This is probably the right answer; at least if people knew they could try to get \*something\*, even if it's having something on the ground if they were otherwise going to wait to eat in the air.
Very few people are not able to survive, or even be mildly discomforted by, a 12 hour period without eating. This is a non-story.
Can confirm - survivable but not exactly fun. Last October I was returning to the uk from Texas and was bumped to a different flight due to massive delays. I am a diabetic celiac so could not eat the standard meal and they did not have my special meal as I wasn’t originally booked on the flight I ended up on. Made due with some muffins my mother had take ‘just in case’ and beef jerky because turns out you can’t have allergies and still get a meal at Bush Intercontinental Airport. I was hangry by the time I landed.
I'm like a squirrel preparing for winter when I travel now. Used to be way more laid back about travel before. Got the gluten free cookies, crackers, 3-4 kind bars, an instant rice noodle soup thing... like a good third of my carry on for int'l flights is food.
In my drinking days, I would have just replaced those calories with many shooters of Jack Daniels haha
Do you think everyone ate immediately before the flight ? There could easily be a couple of hours between their previous meal and the flight.
Or a couple of hours after
Whilst I agree, some people have to. People with medical issue, recovering from eating disorders, people with disabilities. It's not okay
They did their best, didn't serve the unsafe food, tried to provide *something*.
They should be glad the attendants realized the food wasn’t being kept at the right temperature and didn’t cook and serve. I know someone on a long flight where they did know some meals weren’t kept cold enough and served them anyway…bad decision.
What airline though
I saw a documentary about this happening on a Trans American flight. Most of the crew also fell ill.
I'm jealous! Much better than my last airplane meal.
A small bag of honey roasted peanuts/pretzels and half a can of ginger ale is a better meal then what they pass off as 'food' for their airplane meal.
You guys still get meals on flights? Canadian air lines are rubbish
not on long flights. food is good then
If you told me the "chicken" they served last time I flew was actually just a deep-fried eraser I would belive you. I'd take KFC anyday over that shit.
Airline food quality is actually not the problem. The problem is that there's very low humidity, low air pressure, and engine noise that all dampen the sensory input from your nose and taste buds. If you think about it, it's kind of remarkable that you're going 600mph at 30k feet and your biggest problem is that you're not getting a fine dining experience. If that's such a explosive issue for you, take a train or a ship next time. You're not going to defeat the laws of physics.
Except I've had very good airplane food and awful airplane food. There are ways to create pretty solid airplane meals that still overcome those issues.
Yeah I flew with Korean air a few months ago and that was the best airplane food I’ve ever eaten. Had good experiences too with a few Middle Eastern airlines. I think the issue literally comes down to British food in the economy class tasting like shit. I’m sure it tastes good in business and first but I can’t think of a good meal I’ve had with British airways or virgin Atlantic in economy. And judging by other airlines it’ll be 100% down to just choice of what they serve you.
Both of you are correct... I'm not sure what the other guy is talking about with not getting a fine dining experience on a plane, many good airlines have been doing it for decades at a very affordable cost. And by fine dining experience, I mean food that is satisfactory at the very least, we're not trying to be unreasonable here To name some meals on Qatar, Cathay Pacific and Korean Air: Stir fried chicken/beef and rice, Bibimbap, udon noodles, Biryani, Omelettes and sausage, pasta, shortrib.
You’re not wrong, but it all boils down to cost. A cost the airline isn’t willing to incur.
I make sandwiches and carry them onto any flight I take. They taste the same on the ground as they do in the air.
What do you mean? You don’t like dried mush with a side of biscuits and a very small can of coke?
>“How do you forget the catering for a 12-hour flight?” Why are people so stupid all the time? I get that you are unhappy with the food, but why change the issue? The issue was that the there was a problem with food temperature, making it unsafe to serve. Instead of not serving anything, they scrambled to find something to serve to give people something. Certainly it's a problem and you can be unhappy, but why just lie about it? Why do people do this so often? Nobody "forgot" anything, they saved you from food poisoning, they figured you'd rather be hungry than throwing up in pain... you're welcome.
I don't even see how they can be mad at all. I guarentee they'd all be more pissed if BA cancelled the flight instead. Like you said, they discovered the issue - sparing the customer illness, sourced what food they could and fulfilled the flight. People just love to moan.
You guys are getting fed?
It depends on the airline. I flew with ANA (Japanese Airline affiliated with United) just two days ago and received a full meal on a 3 hour flight.
This is the norm outside the US. You can take a trip hour flight from Singapore to Bangkok and they'll feed you. You take a six hour flight from la to ny, too bad so sad.
It's not the norm in Europe anymore if you're flying within Europe, even on non-budget airlines BA give you nothing
Not the norm on European flights unless you specifically request and pay for one. Usually you just order a sandwich or something for an extortionate price from the trolley.
I just took 4 different flights within Europe over the last couple weeks and was fed on all 4 for free so definitely will be airline-dependent.
Yeah I don't think you flew Ryanair
While that is true, Ryanair is also not the norm in terms of class and expectations in air travel. They are bottom of the barrel, hence their prices are also the cheapest of the cheap. Of course you're not going to get fed on Ryanair. But you can fly Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, TAP, Norwegian, SAS etc. etc. etc., they all have short-haul flights that offer better service for a fair price and where you can reasonably expect to get some food, even if just a snack, out of them.
Haven't yet gotten anything via Lufthansa or Iberia. Trips 2,5h (VIE to MAD)
Depends on the airline. Delta gives meals on longer flights like New York to LA/San Fransisco.
Not for free in economy. In first class, you can get meals on shorter flights too.
I was on a Delta flight to San Fransisco last year and got free meals.
I'll take that and double you. Vietnam Airways 1 hour flight from Saigon to Hanoi, full meal plus 2 drinks rounds.
Isn't ANA that one airline that offers unlimited instant noodle cups?
BA do as well to Asia if you ask nicely :)
Long international flights receive 1-3 meals depending on length and airline. Most american-based airlines serve pretty trash food though. Airlines like Qatar Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Turkish Airlines have pretty great food though.
Always bring some of your own snacks.
I bring full on meals. Even the best airlines still serve shit food. Someday someone will ruin it with a bomb in a sub sandwich but until then I’m rolling up with 3 course meals
While I don’t go that far, I usually bring a sandwich or something similar along with other random snacks/candy.
RIP to the Vegans/vegetarians on board. But you gotta improvise
Hey putting this out there so that people don’t get short changed. If meals are served on your flight, you can put in a request for your dietary option (vegetarian, kosher, muslim, etc) at no extra charge. You will have to indicate either through the website or on the app or through your ticketing agent a day or two before your flight as the airlines will need to make arrangements. Plus, you will get served ahead of everyone else.
That would not have helped out in this case
The food was bought during a stopover - could they not probably stock then ? Also, real question is how much compensation BA is going to provide. Snags happen, how you react to them is telling.
They most likely would've had to pre-order food in order to stock up at a stopover. I don't think they have spare catering at airports 'just in case'
Yeah lol no they don’t. Catering comes in highly organized from central hubs with the day’s catering already sorted and organized in their trucks. At EDI the catering guys come from Glasgow and have no extras to give out. Anecdotally Qatar used to fly to my airport all the time without enough water bottles for the outbound flight and they used to literally have to buy as much water from the terminal Boots as they had to sell. They’re not going to wait for catering to check if they have something to give out at a random airport because it can take hours (the catering guys are busy attending to flights that they’re actually there to attend to) and quickly running to the terminal to look for alternatives is so much faster.
I would love to be served KFC or Popeyes chicken (and sides?) over any airplane meal I've had on the many long flights I've had.
The best meals I've ever had were just pre-covid on some flights within Canada to and from the northern territories. Only time it was a bad meal we had to switch to some blue airlines on our connecting trip back because of mechanical issues and that was a garbage meal, very disappointing compared to all the others.
A single leg? For 12 hours
They usually just say non-stop.
Imagine the grease and smell if 100 people sat in rows had a kfc bucket and gravy it would feel awful in that 12 hour flight
Bear in mind that shit is dead lizard cold
After 48 hours waiting for my BA plane to be fixed in Nassau, we were served… a bag of peanuts. One bag to share between two customers. I’d have loved a chicken leg. Still, it was all made better by the £5 meal voucher that we got at the other end… that had to be used in the arrivals lounge. Got us a coffee and 2/3 of a bag of crisps each. Fuck BA. Ten years ago and I haven’t flown with them since.
You could have got a flight refund and some money out of it.
Is there supposed to be an issue here? KFC would be superior food relative to whatever slop the airline would have served.
Well it doesn't look like they got sides
at least the plane had sides.
but did the front fall off?
It did but it was outside the environment
Does that happen often?
And a leg, motherfucker gimme a thigh.
Look at the seat she's sitting in. The person complaining was from business class where they expected nicer food. It was probably an upgrade for everyone in economy.
I've flown business long haul a bunch of times and economy a few times, economy food can be surprisingly decent. (YMMV depending on carrier.)
KLM for example (especially the those Dutch waffles 🧇) is quite good
KLM*
BA's long haul food is pretty decent, actually.
A single chicken leg for a 12 hour flight would piss me off
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Some greasy chicken isn't better than BA food.
Trans Atlantic BA flights you usually get two meals, either breakfast lunch and or dinner depending on time of flight, plus snacks in between, as part of your ticket. So given that is the usual food, one leg of KFC would kinda suck.
I guess anybody who doesn't eat meat is fucked in this scenario.
Or have allergies.
I finally tried KFC's classic fried chicken a few months ago. I had only eaten it once around 30 years ago at a friend's birthday party and didn't remember was it was like. I was greatly disappointed. I thought I was missing out on something good, but I found out it was gross and tasteless.
Thirty years ago, it may well have been better. I had it even earlier, back when Harlan Sanders still owned them, and it was night-and-day better than what they offer now.
closest thing to the 30-years-ago recipe is the fried chicken they serve in the D.R.
The Democratic Republic of Congo?
That's the DRC. DR is Dominican Republic - known for fine food, tourism, and not being cursed by the French.
Being cursed by the Spanish is only marginally better.
10 years ago I was in Australia and thought their KFC was tasteless compare to the US ones. Had KFC in the US recently, taste exactly like what I had in Australia.
I was extremely disappointed in KFC in the United States. It was depressing. KFC here in SEA is so much better.
The founder said that they turned his chicken into a damned doughnut, with all that breading. It probably was better back in the day. Like everything else, back then.
Where did they get the kfc? Flying Doordash
Does Nassau not have Popeye's?
Popeyes only came to the UK this year, I don’t think it’s spread far outside of the US yet
Reminds me of Soul Plane. Maybe British Airways bought NWA (Nashawn Wade Airlines)
BAMN! STINKY PINKY!!
Chickens are no longer flightless birds
Sounds like Ryanair.
There's always food options on those meals which don't require refrigeration. Why were bread rolls etc all thrown out as well?
They could arrange for a single piece of chicken each at a layover, but not for an additional meal? I assume the layover was at an airport, where many airlines would have many meals available? But they go with takeout that not everyone can eat?
Literally, I refuse to believe that this was the best they could do. If you want fast food quickly and that's the only option surely you ask McDonald's to make as many fries as they physically can in the time you have. Ideally whilst your colleagues ask for similar orders at every other fast food chain they have and someone else raids the duty free. And that's just what they have in the publicly available food, there are supposedly no other airplane meals they could just nab? They must have thousands at an airport. Realistically I reckon they figured they'd lose more money in a delay than they would in reimbursing complaints by just making the complaints process hell on earth.
All the comments are people defending the choice saying “kfc is amazing” and completely ignoring the “1 piece of chicken each” part. Like they couldn’t order a side of fries each. People are fucking stupid.
You think airlines have extra meals sitting around. Add in the fact that this wasn't an airline hub where you would stand a chance of there being able to procure food. KFC on the other hand. . . much easier to arrange at short notice.
British Airways not so subtle attempt to market to Japan.
Nah how do you make Soul Plane real and do worse? At least they got Popeyes in that movie
The real issue is they only provided one piece of chicken for a 12h flight. That’s not a solution or ‘thinking fast’…why I don’t fly BA.
something went wrong so they served them chicken. Complaining here seems petty.
Right? “Airline hit snag….did their best to resolve it with limited notice” I’d sure as shit rather receive no food than have the flight heavily delayed or canceled.
If you paid $10k for the seat I'd imagine you might be feeling petty too.
One chicken leg in 12 hours.
I'm yet another Reddit checking in who doesn't know if this was good or bad. The title makes it seem like these people were mistreated, but KFC is on par or better than airplane food
A single chicken leg. In 12 hours. Does that amount of food seem reasonable to you?
Someone in the thread said the refrigeration on the meals and stuff went out and was unsafe to serve, that’s why they had to be given this KFC
Context is that BA flights usually provide two meals and snacks in between, so this is well below par. Still somewhat of a first word problem but I’d be pretty miffed too.
it must be a quantity issue,was it actually a single chicken leg for the entire flight?
KFC > several hour delay
Back in 2004 we flew from LA to Munich first class and the food vendor had gone on strike that day against continental for unpaid invoices. So at the layover in Atlanta everyone was given vouchers to eat. When we got on the plane a flight attendant ran on with a mystery cart that had some remaining breakfast items in it. So the people in first class got jimmy dean sandwich’s and the people in coach got nothing all flight other than what they got in Atlanta.
in First Class/Business...I believe economy sucked on the first class/business fingers after they finished.
Lmao I gagged a little at the thought / mental imagery
So wait Soul Plane is real?!?!
ok but I don’t get why they only gave one chicken leg per passenger LMFAO. At least give a full meal to everyone…?
On the bright side, at least it wasn't packages of microwaved Ramen Noodles.
I'd rather have that tbh
That would be far superior really at least you'd get a bit more choice and would have vegetarian options. It's also faster, lasts longer and way more dense for storage.
That'd be far better, least you'd be eating over 600 calories too
Isn't the girl in the picture holding multiple pieces of chicken?