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Just how fresh is the food served in your airline meal? - Lonely Planet
As the flight attendant works their way down the aisle with the trolley bearing your hot dinner at thirty-eight-thousand feet, you might wonder idly: how do meals get on the plane, and how long have they been sitting in the kitchen?
Things differ between long-haul and short-haul airlines, and indeed between low-cost carriers and full-service airlines. On most long-haul routes, meals are catered at both the outbound and the return airport. On some shorter flights, though, the plane may be loaded with food less frequently, because not all the food will be used on each one-hour flight, say.
As the flight attendant works their way down the aisle with the trolley bearing your hot dinner at thirty-eight-thousand feet, you might wonder idly: how do meals get on the plane, and how long have they been sitting in the kitchen?
Things differ between long-haul and short-haul airlines, and indeed between low-cost carriers and full-service airlines. On most long-haul routes, meals are catered at both the outbound and the return airport. On some shorter flights, though, the plane may be loaded with food less frequently, because not all the food will be used on each one-hour flight, say.