Travel

Why you should always order the least popular meal on a flight

Jun 05, 2017

Imagine for a moment, if you will, approximately a thousand passengers all boarding the same airbus plane for an international flight. Each and every one of those passengers are going to take time to sit down, get themselves comfortable, remember that they’ve left something in the overhead compartment, attempt to retrieve said item, make their way back to their seat and then settle in for the long flight ahead.

But the flight is just about to begin, and before too long the flight attendants will make their way through the cabin to dish out the meal of the day. Row after row, people will ask for their meal preferences, and undoubtedly, many will get disappointed that their food option wasn’t available.

Rather than becoming one of those passengers, we all know the ones, who gets annoyed about the remaining food options, making the effort to make life a little bit easier for the cabin crew. It can be a helpful decision, as one frequent flyer recently revealed in an online forum on Reddit.

“Whenever I’m on a flight that has a free meal, I ask the flight attendant to just give me whatever is least popular,” the frequent flyer said. “I always get fantastic treatment after that.”

The thing is, whenever the most popular meal runs out, it’s generally the flight attendants that cop most of the blame. So, by ordering the least favoured meal of the flight, you’re letting the cabin crew know that you’ve got good intentions and you want to be as polite as possible to the people who are just doing their job.

That way, the flight attendants have one less difficult passenger to deal with, and you can benefit from being so helpful. This might also mean that they will be extra accommodating to you when you need them throughout the flight.