Food while traveling
 

It's clear from a number of posts and from my own experience that food onboard a flight is now only for First or Business Class. Steerage can starve. <BR><BR>So what is your strategy? American's bistro bags aren't bad IF they're fresh, but they aren't really to my taste anyway. But what do you do to keep from starving ESPECIALLY if you have a tight connection and don't have time to run into the airport to get a bagel?<BR><BR>

There is always food on international flights. You won't starve if you won't get food for one day. Pack your own bagel before you leave home and some fruit. But there is always food served even in a couch class on international flights. <BR>Why to so many posters here is foo so important when flying?

There is also food on domestic flights for Steerage like you

No, there isn't food for flights that are not in the air during a very short "window" for each supposed meal time on domestic flights (international flights always do provide food, such as may be). From coast to coast, if you have a noon connection in a hub, say, Chicago, you may well be limited to Chex mix or nothing, because you are on the ground during the putative "lunch" window. Happens all the time. Ditto if you have an afternoon flight to a hub and then a connection sometime after about 6 pm. No dinner there, either. <BR><BR>

With the cutbacks I think most airlines are not serving meals on flights of less than 4 hours even if at normal mealtime. On a short flight the other day a man in coach asked for a red wine and the DL attendant said they weren't stocking wine on non-meal flights either (she got him some from first class). <BR><BR>Due to quality of food I had already started arranging my eating around my flights--always eating before leaving home even if made for early meal, taking my own sandwich, fruit, trail mix, and water. Even though international flights always have food, I like to take on something I enjoyed eating at my destination to make the experience last a little longer.

No wonder so many people are heavy. Thinking too much about food

No wonder so many people are broad in the beam and look as alert as lobotomized wiemeraners: they spend their entire day scrambling around the internet looking for something acerbix to write.

In my post-9/11 flying experience, meals have not been served on "short flights" (even BOS to Vegas). Since I don't like airplane food, this is fine with me, now that I know not to expect any food on board. So I eat at the airports, or if connections are tight, pre-pack some food and usually eat while waiting at the gate. My only suggestion for people who bring food on board is to consider how the food will smell...hot food odors wafting through the plane most likely is not pleasant for most of the other passengers. I get physically ill if I don't eat, so I plan for myself. And BTW, I'm a broad, but not "broad in the beam"!