A buyer has his meal on a parked aircraft at Haneda airport in Tokyo.
Tokyo: Airline meals is perhaps one of many final issues persons are lacking through the pandemic, however one Japanese service has prospects flocking to pattern luxurious in-flight meals on its parked planes.
Foie gras, crabmeat mousse and wagyu beef fillet are all on the menu aboard plane belonging to Japan’s All Nippon Airways — for a cool $540.
The airline launched its “restaurant with wings” for only a single day on Wednesday, however with demand proving sky-high, they’re now planning to broaden the providing.
The restaurant provided both top quality or enterprise class meals often served on worldwide flights, with “passengers” boarding a Boeing 777 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport holding tickets designed to appear to be boarding passes.
The expertise got here full with crew bulletins, in response to the corporate, with meals served in cabin seats, although seatbelts weren’t required.
Demand seems robust, regardless of the costs — 59,800 yen for first-class meals and 29,800 yen for a enterprise class providing.
“The tickets for the restaurant bought out in a day,” a spokeswoman informed AFP at present, and the corporate now plans a further 11 dates.
The airline stated it may lengthen the service additional if virus restrictions aren’t tightened.
The “restaurant” already observes virus measures, utilizing solely 60 seats on the aircraft to make sure prospects can keep a ways between them.
The Japanese service isn’t the primary Asian airline to supply meals aboard grounded planes to travel-starved prospects.
A whole lot of travel-starved diners ate lunch and watched seat-back movies on two parked Singapore Airways jets in October final yr, with tickets promoting for as much as Sg$642 ($470).
Like airways all over the world, ANA has been hit arduous by virus-related journey restrictions.
In January it upheld its forecast for a document $4.9 billion web loss this monetary yr to March 2021, in contrast with 27.6 billion yen in web revenue the earlier yr.
ANA Holdings’ nine-month web loss got here to 309.6 billion yen ($3 billion) — additionally a document — and a pointy drop from the 86.4 billion yen in revenue it logged throughout the identical April-December interval final yr.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
