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

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• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  9 Jan9 January 08:01

  “Raspberry & Sultana Bite”

  If you’re really lucky you’ll have one of each in your “bite”

• Jenny says:

  9 Jan9 January 08:05

  Somewhat unrelated, but the article jogged my memory. We flew MantaAir ATR in the Maldives from Male-Ifuru-Hanimaadhoo (approx 2*35 min flights, stay on aircraft during the Ifuru stop). Pre-take off, we were asked to choose a drink (no alcohol of course) from a printed menu. Once airborne, that was served from a trolley, along with the offer of a Mars bar (or similar). Shortly later, a basket of fresh apples was offered. On landing at Ifuru, small cereal bars were handed out for the stop. Then, another drinks run when in the air. Now, I appreciate Maldives transfers are extortionate, but at least they keep you entertained and sustained. A significant step up from Maldivian as well!

• Steve R says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:12

  We were on the flight from Sharm last week & got 1/2 a cup of water to wash it down with (the small cups)

• Andrew. says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:22

  Just give me a little bag of “Party Rings”.

  Thinking of biscuits. I’ve potentially got time to kill at Edinburgh Park in a few weeks. Does anyone know if the Wagon Wheel factory shop is still open? There’s probably just enough time to stalk walk up to Burtons, grab a few boxes, and back in half an hour.

• vlcnc says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:53

  It’s been quite patchy the flapjack or banana bread from experience. My partner had them once, me never. Quite often on many flights we were still getting pretzels or those not so great nutrigrain bars.

  • NorthernLass says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:21

    We got pretzels last month on LHR-DXB! I wonder if they have lots of stock to use up and they’ll appear in the hand out box as the savoury option?

  • planeconcorde says:

    9 Jan9 January 15:06

    +1
    Never saw the banana bread. Since the original change, I still got the pretzels most of the time. Only once in December got a Christmas flapjack.

• jj says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:57

  At the risk of sounding like a fussy eater, I can’t imagine I’d eat any of these. I understand that fresh food would be difficult logistically, but why not a pack of simple, unprocessed, unsalted and unsweetened dried fruit or nuts?

  • AJA says:

    9 Jan9 January 10:13

    The nuts would have to ve withdrawn the moment a passenger notifies they have a nut allergy.

    Quite frankly BA can’t win. They either offer something and everyone complains it doesn’t suit them or they offer nothing and everyone complains that this is not what they expect of a full service legacy airline.

• Connor says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:59

  If it was April Fools day I’d chuckle and go about my day… Alas it’s not.

  The band 4 box to pass down, what even in the hell.

  As for the suggestion to stock up in the lounge or BOB.
  British Airways are fighting on two fronts, against the LCC who are just BOB, and other legacy airlines who still have some snack available. Passengers are fickle enough they’ll gravitate to either when the snacks have been such an insult. But I doubt they’re going anywhere anytime soon. Swan Doyle vowed to bring the pleasure back to flying and make BA a little more human.

  It’ll never happen, but I’d love to see the afternoon tea scones rolled out. That’s pretty quintessentially British and could be relatively cheap to mass produce.

• NorthernLass says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:24

  Tesco value custard creams and bourbons as the sweet choice? If it’s good enough for Galleries lounges …!

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