Originally Posted by
RJD1983
What happens to the non-eaten meals? I'm not talking about scraps, but meals that have been loaded, but were never given out to passengers for any reason. I can totally understand on long-haul the food being binned as it's probably no longer fit for Human consumption. But on CE shorter routes, such as domestic flights, if someone in CE doesn't order a meal, what happens to it? Does it get saved for the next flight? Are crew allowed to eat these meals?
In CW, leftover meals form part of the allocation of ‘crew meals’, so we’d normally have these.
But basically anything not used gets chucked at the end of the flight. They’ve often been unrefrigerated for long periods at that point so it wouldn’t be safe to save them for subsequent sectors.
Most galley operators will cook everything for around 40 mins to landing, and crew will normally scoff some of it. It’s only going in the bin anyway.