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

Well, that didn’t last long. No sooner had British Airways introduced banana bread and flapjack snacks in Euro Traveller (short haul economy) than they have disappeared.

This is a shame, as I’m sure some people were collecting them in order to stick them together and make a whole one 🙂

If you missed our (potentially) award winning review of the Euro Traveller flapjack and banana bread, it’s here.

What are the new Euro Traveller snacks?

This is what you will now get, assuming the new stock has filtered through to all flights.

Breakfast:

• Raspberry & Sultana Bite, or
• McVitie’s Digestive (not sure how many!)

Rest of the day (Bands 0-2):

• Fox’s Rocky Bar, or
• Graze Smokey Barbeque Crunch

Rest of the day (Band 3):

• Milk Chocolate Chunk Cookie, or
• Jacobs Crinklys

Rest of the day (Band 4):

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

Early feedback is that crew seem quite relaxed on Band 4 flights if you help yourself to a couple of items, but I’m sure a clampdown will be ordered soon! On the downside, apparently the Smokey Barbeque Crunch is very smelly and the cabin is not a pleasant place afterwards ….

This is arguably a minor improvement on the flapjack / banana bread – you now get a sweet or savoury option – and, before that, the mini pack of pretzels.

Hat-tip to blurt91 on Flyertalk from whom I stole the joke in the 2nd paragraph!

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