Originally Posted by
ATNotts
I thought the quality of catering on IT flights was largely dictated by the amount the tour operator wanted the carrier to spend on catering. I suppose though, that as tour operators and airlines became vertically integrated there were more opportunities to differentiate the catering product for both tour operator and airline.
Yes, indeed absolutely -
Although when on a charter flight series the aircraft capacity/seats were sold & shared say between 2 or 3 or more Tour Companies they all got fed the same meal that the top payer had specified.
Then we started to go in to the hideous realms of some Tour Companies not wanting meals but some did, some paid, some did not - Again we catered the plane full and all pax usually got a meal. Even flew Laker several times as staff and everyone it seemed still got a full meal on a Skytrain service.
Things then really started to change (horribly) with the BoB ££ concept, which really was the start of the
Race to the Bottom what we have now.