The restaurant has wings

All Nippons Airways’ parked, first-class meals on the plane are the airline’s latest attempt to regain the lost revenue in the Covid-19 epidemic.

Chef talking to a passenger on an ANA plane parked at Haneda Airport (Tokyo) Airplane food used to have only two main options: chicken or beef. But now, the biggest airline in Japan started to open high-class food service on a flying plane dubbed “restaurant with wings”, with prices up to more than 12 million VND a meal. A flight attendant prepares meals for the “passengers” All Nippons Airways (ANA) ‘passengers’ can choose between first class seats with meals for 59,800 yen (12.5 million VND) or business seats for half, 29,800 yen (6 , 2 million VND), on a Boeing-777 at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Customers are asked to pre-select their meal from a Japanese or international menu. Main courses include charcoal grilled fish with saikyo miso sauce, Wagyu beef with Kobe mustard, and sautéed sea bass and shrimp soup, served with Japanese sake, plum wine or Krug champagne. Yosuke Kimoto, 42, had a business class meal with his son. She said: “It serves delicious food here. I’m glad my kids like it too ”. They were one of 60 guests who had lunch on the opening day, along with an equal number for dinner. Her son is also very impressed. “The Business Class is very different from Economy Class in terms of both food and seats. This area is very spacious, and the seats can be turned into beds when you lean them back. ANA will provide 22 lunches and dinners this month, each lasting approximately three hours. There is no in-flight entertainment available, but customers will receive a comfortable kit and can also use the airline’s lounge at Haneda Airport. Singapore Airlines was the first airline to take advantage of the public’s in-flight dining needs last October, when the airline began offering meals on two A380 superjumbo jets parked at Singapore’s Changi Airport. Tickets were sold out in just half an hour, although prices can go up to £ 360 (11.5 million VND) to eat in a luxury flight room and watch a movie. Meanwhile, economy class meals are more affordable at just £ 30 (VND960,000) per person. The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the global aviation industry into its biggest ever crisis, with many planes around the world unable to take off due to travel and entry restrictions. Since then a few firms have to get creative to take advantage of airplanes. At ANA, the idea of ​​a “winged restaurant” was devised by the staff. A passenger enjoying a first class meal Surprisingly, the in-flight meal concept is becoming extremely popular. ANA previously opened an international service that sells economy food since December of last year. So far, they have sold more than 264 thousand meals and earned more than 1.3 billion pounds (41.5 billion VND). The airline said within a few minutes that the beef hotpot, creamy hamgburger with fried rice and eggs had been sold out. British Airways has also begun to offer first-class meals home. It includes a four-part meal for two – with fish, meat and vegetarian options. Through food delivery services Do & Co. Starters, dishes include smoked Loch Fyne salmon with mustard sauce, followed by slow-cooked British beef cheek, along with desserts options like dark chocolate, citrus sandwiches and avocado pudding. Likewise, Finland’s national carrier Finnair started selling business-class meals at a supermarket near Helsinki in October last year, and it was also a success at just 12, 9 Euro (350 thousand VND). The Australian Government has invested AD 1.2 billion (VND 21 billion) to halve the fares for 800,000 flights by July this year to assist people in domestic flights. Airlines have seen a surge in bookings as they sell tickets at a 50% discount, after Queensland’s travel restrictions were relaxed. In response to this situation, International Aviation Corporation (IAG) introduced a digital health report card for passengers to help revive the aviation industry, following a record loss of 7.4 billion euros (200.8). billion VND) by 2020. IAG is also working with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create a health verification application. The IATA mobile travel card allows passengers to receive COVID-19 test results and prove that they can travel. Currently, the application is being tested by some airlines.