The Range

Hi guys,
Just wondering what kind of meals you usually have when on duty. On the plane, at the hotel, at the airport. And, who pays for it? You or your company?
If you don't mind saying the company you work for.

wiggy

Good luck with your quest, unfortunately that's the sort of detailed question the tax inspector is fond of asking , so I suspect you might not get many detailed answers.............

( Me? Eat on the aircraft in flight. My company pays me allowances based on my time away from base on a trip, I use this money to buy my meals when on the ground......)

Redcarpet

A few years ago, the Royal Air Force introduced something called a Chicken Tikka Lasagne. You'd be hard pressed to find anything quite so revolting served from a galley.

mutt

Meals inflight usually consist of unlimited sandwiches, canopies with salmon and cavier, followed by salad, main course choice of about 6, steak lobster, etc, desert, massive fruit baskets, cheese plates....... Unfortunately no wine.

In Hotels, breakfast paid, allowance for eating where u want.

hec7or

canopies don't sound very appetizing, I hope they take the MDC out before they serve them to you!

captjns

And of course the cabin crew would wipe the crumbs off your face too.

I remember the day of MGM Airlines running out of JFK in the 80s and 90s with their old ex-Alitalia DC-8s and Boeing 727s. Hey the sundaes were fantastic too!

Madp1lot

Depending on the flight schedule, I get BF (breakfast), LN (lunch), SN (snack), DN (dinner) or SP (supper) on the Airplane.

- Always have a Light Meal on board (consisting of sandwiches, fruit, cakes, crackers, yogurts, cereal bars and water).

As for the main meals served on board they consist of:
- 2 choices min (fish/meat based with rice/potatoes sides for LN + DN), small pasta plates, chicken fillets or other "lighter" options as well (for SN and SP)
- starter/salad (crappy little thing with no veggies lol)
- desert (choc mousse/pudding/cake/sweet stuff)
- salt crackers + cheese
- bread + butter
- drinks from AC (except alcohol)

Breakfast (varies a lot):
- omelet/Scrambled eggs+meats/sweet crepes+fruit+cream_cheese/meat skewers+grilled veggies/cereals/strange stuff
- breads (white/dark/corn/sweet/cake_like)
- butter/honey/jam selection
- yogurt
- fruit
- juices/milk/coffee/tea

When on stay, according to "when" we're staying out, we get an allowance to eat out at our description (amount based on where we are. Average 28€/meal + 16€/over night). BF included with hotel contract and usually we get discounts (~25% for eating at the hotel and sometimes, as well, "crew meal" - € friendly :P)

If schedule changes, and we are supposed to have meal on board with new schedule, or due catering irregularity, the equivalent will be deposited in € on the next pay check.

the food allowance is more then enough to eat out and you can easily save ~40%-50% of the total (values tax free ~ 600€/month total... more on summer)

Think that's it! hope it helps you out

Company: TAP Portugal (the one and only)

zlin77

On board..all the food you can eat!! The main thing is to refuse at least half in order to ward-off "Boeing Belly"...On the ground, breakfast is included in all our layover hotels ( Enjoyed mine in Shanghai this morning!)..we also receive daily per-diems, ranging from approx. USD $50-100/day depending on our layover port/country....Zlin

captjns

Oh well... time for my bowl of Cheerios.

mutt

Of course they do, with hot linen towels......

B737NG

All the food you eat on board is subject to your income TAX.... in some countries. Therefore the Crew get´s charged with a certain amount of money to pay Tax on the monetary beneficial part of the meal. Sick how jealous some people can get but sadly the reality.

despegue

And how does the tax maffia actually know what meal you eat onboard?!
The less you tell to that maffia the better.

wiggy

despegue



Maybe other countries don't bother to audit crew but the UK HMRC does. The UK tax mafia did an audit a couple of years ago of what crew members ate and what they spent down route, and increased the tax hit as a result. They will be back, so I agree entirely with your comment....

MaxBlow

I had a 'wish sandwich' this morning together with a cup of brown warm water.

Btw. a 'wish sandwich' is a kind of sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you wish you had some meat.

For lunch we had 'rubber biscuits'. If you throw them on the cockpit floor they bounce back right in your mouth. If you don't catch'em you go hungry...

&

(menu was put together by Jake & Elwood Blues)

mackey

The only way we get fed is to buy it from Tesco, sainsburys.......!

Piltdown Man

When in a hotel, a breakfast is always provided. If it is a German hotel it is exceptional quality and of biblical proportions. Others vary from acceptable to "pretty gross" (the Italians can't make breakfast). On the plane there is a "crew tray" comprising of fruit, yoghurt, sandwiches etc. Then there are pax meals. The snacks served to those in the posh seats are very good and those served to the cheaper seats acceptable. In the evenings we are given hot, edible crew meals. What speaks volumes is that crews take them off the aircraft to eat them - not feed them to the seagulls or their pets at home.

Another

North American regional:

i like my steak medium rare. problem is heating it up

whatever you can fit in your cooler bag.
at least beverages are not a problem.

majority of overnights have free breakfasts.

beachbumflyer

B738driver,
How do you guys put up with that?

overun

l remember being provided with quite a few Dingo`s breakfasts......

a pee and a look around !

waffler

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