Airline Food
Monday July 23, 2001

The following list shows how much each airline spends on food per passenger.

U.S. Air spends $3.04
TWA spends $3.41.
Delta spends $4.10
Continental and Northwest spend just over $4.80
United spends $7.53.
American spends $8.00.
And the big spender, Midwest Express drops $10.05 per passenger!!

Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Airline food is nothing to write home about, but some carriers try

Northwest won't say how much it's spending annually on catering or whether it has managed to reduce food costs. American Airlines, however, spent $698 million on food service in 2002, down 10 percent from 2001.

September 02, 2004
According to Black Aviation Solutions (as reported in The New York Times) Alaska Airline spends the most per passenger on airline food: $3.93. Southwest spends the least: $.35. The biggest change in spending is America West, which spent $2.60 per person ten years ago and $.60 now.

December 26, 2004
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American Airlines is dropping free food service in coach class aboard domestic flights of three hours or more on Feb. 1 and broadening its food-for-sale program.

It will offer passengers the option of buying snack boxes for $3. A morning snack box contains a muffin bar, dried cranberries, bagel chips and cheese spread. The afternoon box includes cookies, salami slices, cheddar cheese and dried fruit mix.

On 120 transcontinental flights and 40 flights to Hawaii, American is also offering a $5 breakfast sandwich or tortilla wrap.

American expects to save $30 million a year by eliminating food service in coach.
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Lunch on American's jets may cost you
By AMY CULBERTSON
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Posted: Feb. 1, 2005
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American, which reported $761 million in losses for 2004, aims to save $30 million by ending main-cabin hot-food service and replacing complimentary in-flight meals with the new food sales. The new program will replace free Bistro lunch bags on about 200 flights and add food service to 300 flights that now serve no meals, the airline says.
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