Article: Let’s Talk About Airline Meals on Overnight Flights…

[MEL_Traveller]

This is a good question. My assumption is that they're stored super-duper deep-frozen on the ground, to avoid the melting which might otherwise occur between the warehouse & the aircraft ... and I guess if a galley freezer set to -4 is full of rock-solid deep-frozen ice creams then it takes longer than a long-haul flight for their temp to come up to -4?

I thought they used dry ice for this?

For, say eastern Australia originating flights to SE Asia, probably a quick supper before a 5-6am landing, as the only meal, is probably a reasonable option. Most of the flight will have originated in that time zone or maybe -30-60 mins or +2 hrs.

If we take the SQ flight arriving into MEL at that time (~6am), it departs SIN at 720pm. It connects with flights from all over Europe that have departed the previous evening and land in the late afternoon into SIN between 5 and 6pm.

 

[dajop]

If we take the SQ flight arriving into MEL at that time (~6am), it departs SIN at 720pm. It connects with flights from all over Europe that have departed the previous evening and land in the late afternoon into SIN between 5 and 6pm.

Yes, but I did use the specific wording “ Eastern Australia originating flight to SE Asia…•. I would expect that no one on those flights has left Europe the previous evening.!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Yes, but I did use the specific wording “ Eastern Australia originating flight to SE Asia…•. I would expect that no one on those flights has left Europe the previous evening.!

Oh! sorry, got the flight the wrong way around! My bad.

 

[Captain Halliday]

Given the discussion about how long meals take on overnight sector, I was curious to see what QF75 would be like.

Pushback: 2031
Wheels up: 2040
Service commenced for row 1: 2222

So depending what you take as the starting time… pushing 2 hours.

I was keen to get to sleep, so it felt glacial.