American Airlines confessed to Sun Magazine recently that they in fact were serving one year old meals on their regional flights. The meals were "specialist" options for vegan, diabetic, Asian Vegetarian, Hindu and Muslim diets.





American Airlines told Sun, "We recently moved to a new vendor to prepare our special meals in order to ensure that we are consistently delivering meals with the correct ingredients to our customers with specific dietary needs. With the volume we serve onboard, using pre-prepared special meals ensures the highest level of accuracy and prevents us from serving customers food they cannot consume." Although, each American Airlines meal has a shelf life of up to a year most meals are more fresh, adds AA in a more recent report.

American Airlines strategy is working, unfortunately, the airline food industry is expected to grow to 18 billion dollars by 2021. In our recent report where we discussed the treatment of airline food workers and we showed the unseen realities of where your in-flight meals actually comes from.

Airlines are wasteful of their food. Airlines often over-stock and end up throwing food away. When a flight is delayed the airline is supposed to order more "fresh" food but they often don't because of financial reasons.

Although, all food must be prepared on the ground and not in flight countless airlines don't follow the rules. However, the food may be heated once when the food is in the air during long flights. Adding to the bad taste of food kept in a refrigerator for up to a year, airline food tastes significantly worse in the sky.

Due to low air pressure and higher humidity the food naturally tastes more "gross." Hopefully, you enjoyed reading this article and imagining eating American Airlines food kept in one dirty refrigerator for one year. Now, you know better, to bring your own mustard sandwiches on flights.











