Originally Posted by shedwannabe
Well hey, at least you got something you COULD eat, even if you didn't like it. When I'm on a long haul flight they OFTEN run out of vegetarian options before they get to me.
And yes, I always order vegetarian when I know there will be a meal for sure (like over the Pond). And a large fraction of the time (15%-20% maybe) they don't have my special meal and I go without.
As an analogy, think about when they used to have smoking on planes. Being a non-smoker, I could scarely survive whereas smokers just had to abstain for a couple hours. (Of course one can see this from a different angle - non-smokers just had to put up with some bad-smelling air, but smokers were deprived of a drug they were addicted to. This is kind of how I see the flipping of the "vegetarian inconvenence" above)
I wasn't worried whether or not I would "survive," it just seemed odd and annoying that they would load up 50% + of their meals as vegetarian meals when <10% of the population is vegetarian. If I were on a diet followed by <10% of the population, I would definitely routinely bring my own food (and still may after this, if pushing vegetarian food will be an airline trend, because I often get upgraded into the back rows)