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European airlines are so cheap. Everything that makes a flight less suffering costs extra. I flew with Turkish airlines once, and they just include a meal for everyone. It’s so much less stressful to fly when you don’t have to worry about food.
Why would you need a meal on a 1 to 3 hour flight?
Honestly I don’t get the need for meals full stop, even crossing the Atlantic.
Airplane food is, at best, extremely mid.
I prefer to just do a fast in the flight and get something local once on the destination.
Especially when i’m heading to a place with great food like Mexico i see little purpose in eating mid flight.
And it’s not like you need the calories just sitting in that chair either.
There are many airlines like Turkish airlines in Europe. You are talking about the budget airlines. Those are extremely cheap but do not provide comfort and charge extra for every little thing.
That’s how they sold tickets for less than 30€. If you included all the “extras” similar to a normal flagship airline, you would pay the same or even more on the low costs
I think I remember flying Norwegian from the US to Europe once (~a decade ago), and it was budget but still had meals included. However I believe they’ve since gone bankrupt, and there’s a new airline called Norse Atlantic that is ultra budget and won’t feed you unless you purchase meals beforehand.
But with a little bit of homework the ultra budget flights can be nice. I did a Paris to Los Angeles flight on French Bee a few years ago and the base fare was under $300, so I didn’t sweat pre-buying seat selection and meals for another 50 or $60.
European airlines are so cheap. Everything that makes a flight less suffering costs extra. I flew with Turkish airlines once, and they just include a meal for everyone. It’s so much less stressful to fly when you don’t have to worry about food.
There are many different European airlines, not all that cheap.
Lufthansa, Finnair, SAS all don’t serve meals for everyone.
Why would you need a meal on a 1 to 3 hour flight?
Honestly I don’t get the need for meals full stop, even crossing the Atlantic.
Airplane food is, at best, extremely mid. I prefer to just do a fast in the flight and get something local once on the destination.
Especially when i’m heading to a place with great food like Mexico i see little purpose in eating mid flight. And it’s not like you need the calories just sitting in that chair either.
I mean if you fly for 1-2h a meal is overkill
There are many airlines like Turkish airlines in Europe. You are talking about the budget airlines. Those are extremely cheap but do not provide comfort and charge extra for every little thing.
You mean budget airlines such as Lufthansa?
I checked some flights out of curiosity - they do include onboard catering. How often do you fly Lufthansa and what class?
On your typical 2 hour or so flights, the only thing you get is a piece of chocolate. You have to pay extra for a meal.
The entirety of Lufthansa’s onboard catering is €0.33 per passenger.
It’s incredible how easily passengers are placated by an 8-cent piece of chocolate.
Lufthansa is considered budget? TIL, the one time I flew with them it was a short flight, seemed nicer than my experiences with other budget airlines
No it’s not, that’s the point.
That’s how they sold tickets for less than 30€. If you included all the “extras” similar to a normal flagship airline, you would pay the same or even more on the low costs
I flew to Asia a few times and there’s always a few meals included. But they were always Asian airlines.
Last time I flew back with a Norwegian airline and I didn’t get to eat at all for the entire way and I was not prepared for that.
I think I remember flying Norwegian from the US to Europe once (~a decade ago), and it was budget but still had meals included. However I believe they’ve since gone bankrupt, and there’s a new airline called Norse Atlantic that is ultra budget and won’t feed you unless you purchase meals beforehand.
But with a little bit of homework the ultra budget flights can be nice. I did a Paris to Los Angeles flight on French Bee a few years ago and the base fare was under $300, so I didn’t sweat pre-buying seat selection and meals for another 50 or $60.
I flew with air Portugal and I had a meal, same with Aegean airlines. Airlines differ.
Sure, but after like 6 flights or so, I just kind of assumed there’s always food when you have such a long flight