What airline no longer serves meals on international flights? I need to update my no fly airline list. So far there are no US based airlines left that I want to travel on and I’m hearing mutterings about British Airways.
Well I'm not sure what Aer Lingus gives you is really a meal TBH...
Its far worse than it used to be - which was already pretty bad - when all other airlines were giving free drink they were not.
There were a couple of years they tried it - but did not last long at all.
Anyway they have reduced the quality and cut some things out - I was shocked just how bad it was last time.
No bread with the meal now either - it was the only decent thing - there was a slice of prepackaged Irish Brown Bread.
Also the cheap wooden utensils they use - leave a really bad taste in your mouth making it all the worse.
They used to give you an Irish Breakfast - its was minimal but better than the scone they give you now.
On my last flight we did not even get that as the flight got in over an hour early and only the first few rows got the breakfast.
My wife asked for it on the way out - they don't eve give you Kerry Gold butter many more - they switched to a cheaper brand.
My wife said TAP was not bad at all - I slept through it so cant say. the good thing about them is the flight leaves at 11:30PM so you can work all day and then go to the airport and don't get in too early and you can usually get a free stopover in Lisbon (or Porto) for a few days before you fly onto somewhere else.
Hop over to the Cruise Line Forum where folks don't think twice about spending $20,000 to $25,000 for a stateroom for seven days.
I did 5 cruises from 1980 to 1988, Paquet, NCL (twice) RCCL (twice) and those cruises included round trip air fare, a hotel the night before the cruise, and there were no extra cost restaurants, the Main Dining room was top flight dining all the way.
Now they nickel and dime you death with extra cost options. I believe Remy on Disney is $95 dollars a person. Mind you, you have already paid for dinner that night in the main dining room. That is a LOT more than a land based restaurant charges of similar quality, not counting, again, that you already paid for dinner in the Main dining room.
No doubt - I was going with the most basic advertised fairs.
My parents did that splurge for there 50th anniversary and enjoyed it - Norwegian I think - when you have limited mobility I guess it makes sense - but I'd prefer to just travel somewhere nice and enjoy a city for 1/5 that price.
I've done several Disney cruises back in the beginning of the cruise line (the first two ships) and was never impressed with any of the food except Palo. Sitting on the veranda was nice for a short time - but 7 days is too much for me - we mostly did it for my parents sake.
When we get older and cant do it all on our own anymore we may do a river cruise since you can hit a bunch of cities in Europe and its easy enough.
Maybe a Mediterranean cruise as well.