Fare Eating in economy is unlikely to be a gourmet experience these days. Click on the image to take our quiz. We are in an era in which economy class airline food on domestic flights has almost descended to the level of warmed over vending machine fare. This occurs as travelers in the front of the cabin are being offered fine wines and entrees and desserts that make abandoning diets entirely understandable. This airline offers food so tasty that it even draws business travelers heading for Chicago and willing to make the 90-mile drive in exchange for a few creature comforts.
Wine is complimentary.
Virtually every flight is a meal flight, with food that shows the airline is No. 1 in per passenger food expenditure. Each meal closes with flight attendants distributing chocolate chip cookies, baked in flight. Make No Assumptions Don't assume that booking a flight that departs at a commonly accepted mealtime will actually bring you a meal. Airlines began cutting back on meal service several years ago and they haven't looked back. It's possible to fly connecting flights virtually all day long with little sustenance offered but a small bag of snack food and a plastic cup of soda.