Airline launches restaurant serving in-flight food
Are you missing in-flight food during the pandemic? Well, look no further. Thai Airways has opened a restaurant delivering the full experience
I don't know about you, but the flight is one of my favourite parts about going on holiday. That amazing feeling of an adrenaline rush as the plane takes off, followed by an in-flight movie before being served with a tray of various food items, which I think all taste amazing but in reality I'd probably send it straight back at a restaurant on terra firma. All nonsense of course if you are lucky enough to fly business or first class.
So imagine my joy when I heard that Thai Airways have launched their own restaurant, serving their meals on the ground, after being forced to ground their entire fleet, since April, as a result of the global pandemic.
It's not the first airline to have been rather innovative in this current climate; Qantas have recently launched a flight that goes 'nowhere' – that's right! It takes off from selected cities in Australia and takes passengers on a seven hour (or so) flight around the various sights in Oceania.
What's this all about?
Essentially, Thai Airways have transformed their Head Office restaurant in Bangkok into a restaurant. Customers enter the restaurant by going up those iconic 'plane steps'. To enter, customers are given a boarding pass that is scanned on arrival. The experience starts before you've even sat down!
Inside the restaurant itself they have created that in-flight experience by using old parts from aircrafts, so customers sit on old plane seats and the tables are made from old engine parts. You can even choose what 'class' you want to sit in, whether economy, business or first.
The restaurant floor is operated by Thai Airways' cabin crew, brought back into work to assist this initiative. Sadly, not all cabin crew members are brought back, but the initiative has gone a long way to help staff.
Is the food as good as it is in-flight?
Most of the options available are only served in-flight, to give customers that authentic experience. Combine that with being served by cabin crew in full uniform, I'd say that's authentic indeed.
From 07:00, it's a lighter 'bakery' menu, then switching to an 'all day international menu' from 09:00. Meals typically include Caesar Salad, Japanese yakisoba, and shawarma kebabs and tend to cost around £2-£4.
When's the next flight out?
Sadly, due to travel restriction we can't jet off IMMEDIATELY, to try this out. But, perhaps easyJet or British Airways will give this a try?
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Bizarre idea, but interesting.
After two times, we will think about various other restaurants. How many times you like: chicken or pasta? A bread you can do anything with, but not eat, because of no taste. A sad salad and some nuts or cakes, that tastes like the bread. The coffee at least was good every time. But thinking of coffee, I think of a nice cafe somewhere 😊