Aircrew food
 

I once read about a rule that "the members of an aircrew must each bring a packed lunch, each man from somewhere different and not share any or hand any round, to avoid the whole crew going down with food poisoning.". Please, is that correct, and where does that rule apply, and when was it started?

Bring my own lunch? I'm working for an airline, not in a coal mine. We do get crewmeals of course, minimum is a tablet with a cold meal, bread, several bread rolls, salad, some cheese and meat, for breakfast jam or some other sweet stuff, as well as some sweets for dessert. Additionally two tablets of fruit for the whole crew. If the flight duty time is longer than 8 hours enough warm meals for every crew member and quite often additional spares. And of course as many passenger snacks as they don't eat, quite a lot usually.

We don't have any fixed rule anymore about not eating the same stuff, but usually tastes are suitably different anyway that it is not a problem.

I'm not sure if you've ever watched the aviation safety documentary Airplane, but disaster nearly struck when all the crew had the fish.

It was friday

But to answer the original questions,

1) No

2) Nowhere

3) 8th May 2012 16:46

Shirley you can't be serious?

The only vein of truth in that is the bit about crew eating different meals; a lot of airlines provide different meals for the captain and first officer so they don't eat the same thing.

Our ops manual also cautions eating the same thing from the same restaurant either on airport standby, but more so down route.

Crew food: S***t,

Bit like airbourne school meals.

Passenger food: Now you're talking!!

p.s. Stay away from the fish

Different menu, same conditions
 

The food items might be different ie FISH CHICKEN BEEF.....(assuming you can tell the differene), but the prep areas might be the same, the extras might be the same, the delivery vehicle, the same, the aircraft galley, and prep areas, and serving areas are the same.....

There is always a risk, when away from base, and ones "trusted" caterers......

Eat in seperate restaurants and drink seperate water, (bottled), and NO salads when down the route...always good advice.

Use aircraft bottled water, as a guarantee of quality, (unless with certain ME airlines who will fire you for this offence).....

In corporate pax meals and crew meals are almost interchangeable, so safety is reasonable... I eat steak, my Co-Captain eats shell fish.....just waiting for him to get the old Delhi Belly.

Now spotted dick and custard....perfect cure for all main course ills.....

Just my 1 fils worth...

hospital ?! what is it ?:}

It's a large building with lot's of windows, but that's not important right now.

Coffee Johny?

:}:8:):cool:

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Roger Roger.

Clearance Clarence?

Love this thread, no worries we have an autopilot!

With an autoinflation tube ?

No worries 300 hr Microsoft Sim passenger will land the great silver machine

ha haaaa you guys made my day !
don't call me shirley:cool:

Tell me Johny, have you ever been in a cockpit before?

I think this thread belongs in Jet Blast by now. It began with a sincere question on this matter and now jokes fly around. Next we'll see some Parkinson's or Alzheimer's jokes on the appropriate threads.

He's always on TV these days selling life insurance plans for the over 50s. Not sure if it covers food poisoning....