Coming On a Jet Plane

I have been traveling back and forth to Indonesia for a long time now and I still have these questions about the flight that keep bugging me, which I will write in a few postings so that it won’t be too long and it won’t bore you.

First question: Do they know that their food sucks?
The stewardess must have seen the look on the passengers face when they receive their food (or maybe not, maybe the stewardess are too busy throwing their radiant smile around that their vision are limited). They also must have seen the amount of leftover food, which to the common people logically means that the passengers prefer chewing the seat cushion to eating the food.
But how come they do not do anything to improve their food?

Yesterday when I flied from Indonesia, the air stewardess gave me a fried bee hoon (rice noodles) whose taste was not more than the taste of my house door knob. This budget airline that I took has always given me crappy food. And I saw many passengers ignoring the food right after the first bite. But apparently this was not a strong enough indication that the food was bad. Maybe the stewardess thought that leftover food indicated the passengers loved the food so much that they put some aside for later consumption.

Why can’t they just serve pizza? Everybody loves pizza. I love pizza. It’s easy to serve (I do not even need the stupid plastic utensils), it’s easy to prepare, it’s easy to wrap. How about other fast food? I once fly with a budget airline that served McDonald beef burger. And I did not complain (except for the fact that it’s not Big Mac). Maybe they think that fast food is not classy enough to be served in an airplane.

And the airline executives, what do they eat when they fly? If they eat the airline food, do they really like it? I suspect they are served with other type of food, better food. I suspect they eat pizza.