This Monday, American Airlines introduced Hawaiian Cuisine on their mainland-Hawaii flights, inspired and created by famous chef Sam Choy. That’s right, no longer are you stuck with the standard “chicken or pasta”, now you have a variety of choices including: Macadamia Nut Pancakes, Wasabi Salmon and Island Braised Short Ribs.
Of course this only applies of you’re traveling in first class; you’ll notice that all of the meals on the PR page show nice flatware and table settings. Passengers in peasant class are still stuck paying for snacks on the long flight over the Pacific.
What’s nice about American’s change in menu for the Hawaii bound flights is reemergence of some quality in air travel. With all the cutbacks to service across the board recently, airlines are now slowly starting to reinvest in the quality of service at 30,000 feet. Be this new snack baskets on Northwest, extra perks on United or Hawaiian meals on AA, these small improvements upstairs are hopefully an indication of good times ahead in the industry.