In message , Helen Deborah
Vecht writes

Paul Terry typed

I wish BA would simply drop the idea of serving food on flights of less
than three hours - the quality is generally awful these days, and eating
in such cramped conditions is no fun. I'd personally much rather make or
buy my own sandwich.

I'm afraid I disagree. I often have more than enough to carry without
lugging food and drink.

So why not buy a sandwich at the airport, after you have checked in your
baggage?

I'm usually hungry by the time I've spent a couple of hours travelling
to the airport and another couple of hours checking in, so it's 4 or 5
hours from the time I leave home until I'm airborne.

If you're having to spend two hours checking in, surely that would be a
good time to buy a sandwich - either eat it then, or take it in on board
once you've got rid of your baggage.

We only ever take cabin baggage when going on holiday, and we use auto
check-ins whenever possible, so we rarely wait more than an hour at the
airport (and don't wait at all at the far end) but that still leaves
ample time to get a meal, or at least a sandwich, before departure if we
haven't bothered to bring something with us.

Quite apart from the apparently enormously inflated prices BA pays for
food, the quality in recent years has been abysmal - last time I flew BA
I had what was supposed to be reheated scrambled egg on toast - it was
totally inedible. So was the replacement they fished out. What a waste
of money!

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Paul Terry