Sean Peever

Buzzfeed Article: "we need to talk about the stuff Air Canada tries to call food"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tanyachen/d...-ur-food-sucks

D404

I'm glad the 'banana bread' made the list.

smallmj

Is there any way to get breakfast that isn't banana bread on my TATL economy class flight this summer? I'm allergic to bananas but I don't won't to go hungry.

karachi

stick with meat or lamb. the fish is a disaster. had the green curry chicken on Rouge this week. slightly better than cardboard.

jasdou

Get an SPML. I had the GFML (gluten-free meal, or, as yyznomad dubbed it, the girlfriend meal) and I got a dry muffin. Still better than the infamous banana bread.

superangrypenguin

The Wealthy?

Really?! They lost me at that. What a display of being overly dramatic. I'm quoting here. "Oh, my expensive-[expletive removed] flight comes with complimentary stale bread?? Thanks sooooooo much. "

EXPENSIVE?! Bugger off lady.

Sure the food in J is better than the food in Y.

So either fly a lot and upgrade yourself, pay for the J meal (if that's an option which I believe is not an option for international flights), pay the LMU, or redeem for J.

Other than that, flying is more affordable than ever. Quit whining. (not directed at anyone other than the person who did whatever they needed to to make it on buzzfeed)

Cheap entitled people.

JamilD

I flew AC in Y for the first time in a while YYZ-SFO and was surprised at the quantity and quality of food available for purchase (hot food??? what???)

It *is* more expensive than AA/US/DL for transborder routes (esp in Flex, let's not even talk about J)… but I'd ask everyone who's complaining to fly United… and then comment on Air Canada.

Silvercity

I always order a VEGAN meal. Today's GMO modified good will kill you.

Sean Peever

I feel like buzzfeed is learning from the CBC that taking any opportunity to bash airlines will draw a crowd :P.

Diabeetus

SAP! This grinds my gears!

Airfare is cheaper than ever.

I know a lot of people flying a couple of times a year, who otherwise wouldnt' have been able to afford to fly 20-30 years ago. Nowadays, airplanes are Greyhound buses with wings.

People need to stop complaining and enjoy the fact they can now travel to places that their parents never had to opportunity to.

+1

maradori

I've flown Eewnited plenty of times, arguably .... actually even more than I flown on AC.

Each airline has its goods and bads. Perhaps AC > UA if you average out all the factors, but there are a few aspects of UA that I liked better than AC -- for example, I found that the UA "tapas" snackbox is excellent value and, juxtaposed with AC cafe, vastly superior

$8.99 = tapas snackbox (Olive Bites, Roasted Red Pepper Bruschetta, Rosemary Crackers, Hummus, Peppercorn Parmesan Cheese Spread, Herb and Spice Seasoned Pitted Olives, Natural Almonds, BrooksideŽ Dark Chocolate Acai with Blueberry Fruit Flavor)

$9 ...... edit: seems it's $9.95 now? = AC "duo" combo (1 meal item + 1 snack) er.......

Diabeetus

This is my favorite UA Y BOB meal too. Unfortunately, for most people, they think $9US is too expensive for an in-flight meal on a 3+ hour flight.

yulred

...but for the fact that many, many other airlines provide better catering at equivalent or lower prices.

Begs the question (assuming one has the intellectual capacity to free oneself from simplistic 'pax are cheap' or equally simple-minded dogmas)

- how do other airlines do it?

-Are their pax less cheap when they pay equal or lower amounts for similar length flights?

- or are some airlines simply too inefficient too provide equal quality products to their peers?

Besides, the whole 'pax get what they pay for' argument is torpedoed by airline profitability. Since airlines are making record profits, we can comfortably surmise that pax are getting ess than what they paid for.

In any event, the flying is more affordable argument is riddled with logical flaws too. Computers today are cheaper than ever before. And better. Thanks, I suspect, to the same 'cheap' tendencies you decry.

Not that I expect logic to get in the way of one's dogmas. They're mutually exclusive.

eigenvector

I would gladly pay a +$25 upcharge to get better food in Y on international long-hauls. "Buy J for better food" is not really a reasonable argument, when Y is $600 and J is $4000, nor is "buy PY for better food" when PY is rarely below $2000 for a TPAC. I don't think offering a food upsell in regular Y cannibalizes PY sales at all, when PY fares are now 2-3x regular Y for TPAC.

I am willing to pay for better food, but I want it "unbundled" from a higher class of service. Don't airlines love un-bundling?

I think only reason AC does not offer this is because their pathetic food IT and logistics cannot handle it. I mean, they are already incapable of offering pre-ordering for their J customers.

Diabeetus

That's a round about way of calling someone stupid.

I might not be bright, but now you hurt my feelings.