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When it comes to airplane meals, many people always think of the fear of being dominated by chicken rice and beef rice, but nowadays on the flight of Air China or China Eastern Airlines, chicken rice or beef rice can not be eaten casually, no To catch up with the meal, you can only sit on your hungry stomach to your destination.

The reduction of meals on the aircraft has recently provoked complaints from passengers. On the Beijing-Shanghai route that never sneaked away, you may see that the flight attendants are always apologetic to the gold or platinum card in economy class. Passengers, even business class passengers, explained why the plane meal only sent two pieces of fruit or a packet of peanuts to deal with the matter.

It took a lot of money to eat, and the passengers felt angry, but it was useless to anger on the flight attendants. After all, people just follow the rules.

Meal reduction, Air China Eastern Airlines’ “warm upgrade” in midsummer

The original airplane meal that has been there, why was it suddenly cancelled in some flights? Air China and China Eastern Airlines unanimously interpreted it as “safety reasons”, based on the “Opinions on Strengthening Cabin Safety Management” issued by the Civil Aviation Authority in 2012 (hereinafter referred to as Document 96), which stipulates that “20 minutes after the flight takes off.” Cabin attendants must not engage in work unrelated to safety within 30 minutes before landing.”

In fact, when Document 96 was first released, it caused many passengers to worry about taking the opportunity to prepare their own dry food. However, the requirements of the document were not implemented. The company did not reduce the original supply of aircraft.

What is the major airlines’ sudden attention to the regulations of six years ago?

The incident stems from the bumpy and wounding incidents that have occurred in civil aviation in recent years. This year, on June 6th and 17th, there were successive bumps that caused the cabin crew to fracture. The Civil Aviation Authority issued the issue in June this year. Regarding the Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Cabin Order, the Civil Aviation North China Bureau held the document No. 96 again at the work meeting on “Enhancing cabin safety management to reduce the risk of bumps and injuries” in mid-July.

The first response to the General Administration’s call for China Eastern Airlines is to provide dinner only at the meal, as follows:

The planned flight time is 1 hour 50 minutes (110 minutes) or more,

(1) Planned landing time is available during the 07:30-09:30 time period or during the flight time, including breakfast and onboard drinks in the whole cabin;

(2) Planned landing time is available during the period from 12:30 to 14:30 or all of the flight hours, and lunch and onboard drinks are available in the whole cabin;

(3) Planned landing time is available during the 18:30-20:30 time period or during the flight time, including full-course dinner and in-flight integrated drinks service;

(4) The landing time is not within the above time period. In addition to the on-board integrated beverage service, the planned flight time is calculated once every 4.5 hours (optional morning, afternoon, dinner), less than 4.5 hours but more than 2 A snack meal (or dry, sandwich, burger, casual snack) is available once a day.

This new regulation came out, and suddenly caused a lot of spit. The dissatisfaction of the passengers was that even if the flight was not at the meal, it was delayed, and eventually it was only hungry when flying. However, when passengers on the Beijing-Shanghai route were just preparing to switch to Air China, the latter also issued a cabin service flow streamlining announcement:

So, even if you are in business class or first class, even if you have a meal on Air China’s flight, you can only make a few oranges or a small snack with a flight of less than 2 hours. However, Air China is more savvy than China Eastern Airlines. Whether or not the meal is based on the sailing time, and there will be no significant difference between the departure time of the Eastern Airlines and the 15 minutes may be the sharp contrast between chicken rice/beef rice and peanuts.

Looking at the text You may not know how cool the plane meal under the New Deal is. The following are the results of the netizens:

The economy class is a pack of snacks.

Business class is not good enough to go there

Compared with Air China and China Eastern Airlines, China Southern’s approach is much more euphemistic. Instead of simply and rudely cutting off meals, it encourages passengers to take the initiative to abandon their meals and award miles between 300 and 500 depending on the class. The mileage value is not High, but at least reflects the sincerity, unlike the first two services, the food has shrunk, and the fare is not moving, which is also the place where the passengers are dissatisfied.

After a bank in the name of “warm upgrade” to reduce the high-level credit card rights, all the banks have followed suit. Therefore, the majority of netizens have also ridiculed the major food companies’ succession of meal reduction measures as a “warm upgrade” in the civil aviation industry.

Let’s look to Europe and America

For this reduction, there is also a voice in the sound of a spit.It is a general trend that short-distance routes do not provide meals. This phenomenon is very common in the European and American aviation divisions, and domestic passengers are “spoiled”.

Surely, if compared with several mainstream airlines in Europe and America, the domestic aviation division is definitely not bad. For example, the three major US airlines not only have no short-term meals in the territory, and even no free checked baggage on US and Canada international routes; On the short-haul route, it is even more frustrating: 2 people sit in 2 seats, and then pull the curtain between the economy class and sell it as a business class. In contrast, at least the business class in the country is the industry’s conscience; even if it is the Japanese airline that is known for its service, the domestic airline economy class has long provided no free meals. Japan Airlines (JAL) is still in this year. The domestic route introduces a high seat density A359, and the seat spacing is quite impressive.

There is more than enough than the above, this is probably the three major domestic flights. So how is “upper” done? Although the European Airways business class sells dog meat on the domestic business line, it does not dare to ambiguously eat it. At least the business class can guarantee a full meal, and it has always been black.The horrific British Airways can provide a hot meal in the 2-hour flight that takes off in the afternoon, not to mention the few local airlines in the Middle East. Oman Air does not dare to neglect even a 40-minute flight.

What’s interesting is that today’s airlines have shrunk in their meals in order to save costs, but a few decades ago, several airlines in Europe and the United States tried their best to rush out of their meals, and they also made a surface. Unanimously agreed to cut down on meals, secretly secretly giving passengers a meal that makes people laugh and laugh. In 1958, Pan American Airlines and France’s Air France, KLM, Scandinavian Airlines, Swiss Air and a famous lawsuit, for the definition of sandwiches.

As we all know, the early planes were expensive vehicles that rich people could afford. The fares on the transatlantic route were more expensive. In order to expand the source of passengers, the above-mentioned airlines and the International Air Transport Association reached an agreement to launch a discount. Tickets, at the cost of no meals, can only eat sandwiches.

As a result, only the honest people of Pan American gave the passengers a common sandwich. Several European airlines made a big fuss about the sandwiches. SAS provided Europeans with less bread than the United States. A sandwich with rich fillings, and because there are too many three, the cutlery and forks are arranged. It can be said that it is a dinner with a sandwich coat. Air France is also desperately trying to stuff sandwiches with beef tongue, foie gras, steak and more. Pan American believes that European counterparts use their food to gain an advantage and are unfair to themselves, so they have a lawsuit that looks like a paragraph today.

When the aircraft changed from a luxury item to a mass travel tool, the airline’s cost-saving considerations were inevitable. In the case of Tuen Mun, the Americans are at the forefront. The most widely spread and classic example is undoubtedly American Airlines’ “Olive Money Saving Act”: In 1987, American Airlines found that a large proportion of the olives in the plane meal were left, so when the olives were removed from the side dishes, the annual savings were made. 40,000 US dollars. Industry experts believe that the decline in the level of aircraft meals began with the American Airlines.