Delta Air Lines Is Bringing Back Free Food in Coach on 12 Routes
Photo Credit: Coach customers on some longer Delta Air Lines flights will receive free food, including cheese plates, starting on Dec. 1. Delta Air Lines
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Back in the day, airline passengers used to love complaining about bad domestic airline food. But Delta customers should be happy about this development. They'll be getting fresh, relatively healthy food on long flights.
Years after Delta Air Lines, like its U.S. competitors, removed free meals from its domestic flights, America's most profitable airline is bringing them back — at least on some routes.
Delta, which made more than $6 billion in pre-tax income last year, said Thursday it soon will feed passengers substantial food on 12 of its longest U.S. routes. It says it'll be the first airline to offer free food "from nose to tail" on coast-to-coast routes since Continental Airlines removed its snacks in 2010. The plan, Delta said, is to give away food in the airline's "most strategic markets."
Delta's announcement comes three and a half months after it began surprising customers with food on some flights between New York
