Goodbye banana bread – British Airways introduces new snacks on Euro Traveller flights

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• lumma says:

  9 Jan9 January 05:49

  Oh hallelujah! Our problems are solved! We have banana bread!

• Alex G says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:02

  “McVitie’s Digestive”

  Really? A whole one?

  • Sideshowbob says:

    9 Jan9 January 06:09

    You need to take a bite and pass it on

    • @thirdpassport says:

      9 Jan9 January 10:39

      Don’t give BA management ideas!!!!

  • John says:

    9 Jan9 January 06:49

    The bite is also singular

  • Rob says:

    9 Jan9 January 07:58

    The internal BA document does use the singular – it’s not a HfP typo.

    • LittleNick says:

      9 Jan9 January 08:07

      Sometimes I think why bother with the snack and just serve proper refreshments, incl tea/coffee, soft drinks etc, ideally both

      • Rob says:

        9 Jan9 January 08:52

        Not sure that is possible now due to ripping much of the equipment at the back to put in extra seats.

        • LittleNick says:

          9 Jan9 January 11:04

          Wow, so they’ve cut the galley areas even more?! BA never learn

        • Rob says:

          9 Jan9 January 11:31

          Remember the new aircraft have the loo in the back wall, to allow seats where the loo would otherwise be on the side. Obviously kit had to be removed to fit in a loo.

        • LittleNick says:

          9 Jan9 January 18:36

          I see. Not been on the new aircraft, is this standard practice amongst other airlines with this new aircraft or just BA?

        • Rob says:

          9 Jan9 January 18:41

          It is a key selling point of the aircraft by Airbus. This article has a diagram of the rear galley showing how the loo – which is VERY narrow – is squeezed in between the snack trolleys https://travelupdate.com/cabins-british-airways/

  • Charles Martel says:

    9 Jan9 January 19:14

    Air New Zealand offer you a Maryland cookie sized cookie on domestic flights – the locals seem to love it and believe its a genuine reason to pay 20% more than Jetstar on the same route.

• Matt says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:13

  When was the banana bread available? They were still serving mini pretzels when I flew to Cologne in December (my most recent short-haul BA flight)

  • Andrew J says:

    9 Jan9 January 06:20

    Likewise. I think the flapjacks and banana breads are just trialed on a few flights.

  • zapato1060 says:

    9 Jan9 January 06:41

    I find the Sour Cream and Chive pretzels rancid. My 10y old on the otherhand finds them like Xmas again.

    • ankomonkey says:

      9 Jan9 January 09:47

      Same with me (rancid) and my kids (pretzels=height of gastronomy)!

  • Mohamed says:

    9 Jan9 January 07:02

    Same here last month to Madrid, HFP need to check his facts.

    • Rob says:

      9 Jan9 January 07:56

      I think the banana bread and flapjack never got rolled out beyond Band 3 in the end.

      • Nick says:

        9 Jan9 January 09:11

        The flapjack did (and was surprisingly tasty). It was on almost all shorthaul in Dec, including domestic, offered alongside a bag of corn as the savoury alternative. I only ever saw the banana bread once though.

• TimM says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:26

  I wonder how many people are employed, how many meetings and overall how much money, that ultimately has to come from the fares, is wasted on such minute decisions.

  Bring your own digestive and travel with a low-cost airline.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:40

    Literally 4 pages of comments on some crap snacks

    Just buy something decent at Pret

    • daveinitalia says:

      9 Jan9 January 13:22

      Speaking of Pret, I’ve only used it occasionally at Heathrow as I will usually eat in the lounge but when I have used it I’ve never had my Heathrow Rewards points post automatically. Anyone had any better luck?

    • VinZ says:

      9 Jan9 January 17:15

      A small lunch at Pret costs more than a BA biz seat to Europe these days… no thanks. I’ll stick with the lounge and complain how bad the food is afterwards. 🙂

• Simon says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:29

  I got to indulge in a bite of flapjack on the way back from Madrid in October and while my wife had a bite of banana bread. When they were handed out we could hear people chuckling and the staff looked a little sheepish at the portion size.

  They may as well have given everyone a single choice from a box of Celebrations, would have made the kids on the plane happier to be honest.

  • zapato1060 says:

    9 Jan9 January 06:42

    😀

  • Alex G says:

    9 Jan9 January 08:10

    The box of Celebrations is only for passengers at the front. It’s called the Club Sweet.

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      9 Jan9 January 08:34

      You win today’s comments 😀

• Glasgow Denver says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:37

  Grace smokey BBQ crunch were handed out on Heathrow to Glasgow leg yesterday….I thought they were better (and bigger) than the pretzels and didn’t notice the smell….probably as I was not fresh myself after 15 hours on the move. Baggage system failure at Denver was like a modern day apocalypse to observe baggage mountains….ours made it remarkably.

• Safety Card says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:41

  I’ve not had a rocky bar since a school packed lunch circa 1998

• Nick says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:44

  “A ‘help yourself’ box of six different sweet and savoury snacks will be passed down the cabin.”

  I had a lovely image in my head of passengers passing food boxes over their heads from a mountain of them at the fromt of the cabin to the back….Coming to a BA flight near you soon!

  • ankomonkey says:

    9 Jan9 January 09:51

    If you’re at the back then there’s no way there will be 6 different choices. And I bet some people will help themselves to more than just one item. I suspect those at the back will find an empty box or a box containing only the choice nobody else wants.

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