Hands up, those of you who like airplane food? Yeah, that’s what we thought… Unless you’re flying first class on a top airline, don’t expect your flight meal to amount to much.
There is, of course, scientific reason as to why food doesn’t taste as good on an aircraft, but sometimes you’d prefer anything to the chicken or fish option. Say, for example, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
A series of passengers traveling from Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos to London recently found out what it was like to have KFC while 30,000 feet up in the air.
The 12-hour journey included a layover in Nassau in the Bahamas, during which the crew realized that there was an issue with the onboard meals not being properly chilled…
This resulted in the airline staff buying several pieces of KFC at the Nassau Airport so that the passengers wouldn’t go hungry, like this post from Andrew Bailey explained.
“With limited options available at the airport, our teams sprung into action and made sure our customers onboard our flight had something to eat,” explained a spokesperson for British Airways. “We apologize to customers that their full meal service was not available and that we had to wing it on this occasion. We’re sorry if we ruffled any feathers.”
While not all passengers were pleased with the makeshift meal, it certainly can’t be the first time that they’ve resorted to KFC in a pinch.