Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
At least on international D1 flights, when you go to select your meal there's a "no main meal" choice. Since this prevents food from being wasted, it would be courteous to select this option, assuming that you can do it without spending hours on the phone. You seem to be sure that you won't want a meal.
OTOH FAs tend to eat unclaimed FC meals, so perhaps they like it when people refuse the meal and there's a spare for them to share.
Not offered on domestic flights. (Even domestic D1 flights I've been on don't offer it)
I've been told crew love it when leftover meals that are normally preselect order only. If I'm not going to eat, (say short JFK-UK/IRELAND/CDG/AMS or vv) I order a preselect order meal so that they can offer it to a passenger or crew member. There's always someone very happy to have ti. Especially crew since they eat whatever is left of the D1 meals on all their flights. There's also regularly a passenger that hears about a preselect meal and wants it. (Or didn't read and realize had to preselect it to get it)