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[quote user="CMStPnP"]   <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> Sam1:</div> <div>     I spent more than 40 years flying commercial as part of my job. I never got a meal on an airplane that was very good. In fact, after the first couple of years, when the thrill of flying for business had worn off, I avoided the meals on the airplane even though they were priced into the cost of the ticket.   The domestic airlines finally figured it out, thanks in no small part to Southwest Airlines, which never offered meals. Most people want to get from point A to B as cheaply as possible. They don't want meals that are prepared in a commissary, put on the plane, re-heated and served, especially when most of the meals were not as good as folks could get at their local cafeteria. Southwest figured out what the market wants. I made 22 trips between the United States and Australia, where I lived and worked for five years.  Most of my trips were on Qantas, although approximately 25 per cent of them were on United.  The meals on Qantas and United were of similar quality and quantity.  None of them, however, were what one could get at a decent middle grade restaurant.  <div style="clear:both;"></div>   </div> </blockquote>   600k air miles under my belt on American Airlines.    I think their first class service as far as food is concerned is more than acceptable to me.    Never had a meal in First Class I didn't enjoy on American.     My observations of other airlines: America West Coach (pass the candy bar basket........really?........merged into US Scare) Delta Air Lines Coach (Kool Aide as a beverage?.........really?) Midwest Airlines All Business Class Airline (fairly decent meals back when they were complimentary........now the airline is out of business).   Became Frontier, what a CF Frontier is. Never flew Air Scam before Southwest bought them, I tend to avoid the cattle car airlines, life is too short already. [/quote] First class and business class meals tend to be better than those served in coach class, if the coach passengers get a meal, which they usually do on long overseas flights. However, first class and business class is an exception. Very few people can afford to fly either class. And most of those who fly first class and business class are travelling on an expense account. If it were not for the coach passengers, there would be no first and business class. To the best of my knowledge, none of the all first class or all business class airlines have survived.The same concept applies to passenger rail. If it were not for the coaches there probably would be no sleeping cars and no full service dinning cars. Of course, there was a time when all Pullman car trains (Broadway Limited, Twentieth Century Limited, etc.) were viable, but they are long gone.
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