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I think the point has been slightly missed.
This isn’t really about whether an individual has personally managed to keep a sandwich cold for 10 years. Plenty have, and that’s fine.
The point is that if crew are routinely working 12+ hour duty days, often with no access to buy a proper meal, then as a basic standard an employer should either provide food or provide proper, safe storage for it.
Using a cold dashboard surface or the passenger ice drawer isn’t an official or published food storage solution. It works informally, yes, but that’s not really the same thing.
And this isn’t about trading food for duty pay either. Many airlines that provide crew meals also provide duty pay. It isn’t one or the other.
For me, it’s more about basic welfare and feeling valued as an employee than the actual sandwich itself.
I didn’t mean it was one or the other.
Crew meals aren’t free to the business, the cost will be recovered from somewhere. Most likely it will be from crew pay.
If you don’t think you have correct food storage for your duty, that is a massive safety issue! Have you reported it?