We can be bought with ice cream. We can be bought with a chocolate chip cookie. Give us both and we are totally yours forever and ever amen.

Air Canada clearly knows this, and have obviously arranged for us to stumble across the photograph of the Executive First Class snack on a London to Toronto flight to mitigate the fact that we heard their service was below par. We're seriously thinking that the service could be done by monkeys as long as they were bringing us our Haagen Dazs and freshly-baked chocolate chip cookie. Apparently they also offer oatmeal raisin cookies if you want a semblance of healthy goodness.

We can't confirm if this is the regular snack available on this flight – this picture was taken in January – but we are seriously considering booking a flight so we can find out in person. Or perhaps we just need a trip to the freezer section of the supermarket.

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[Photo: Archangeli] ]]> amandak 2009-04-29T15:05:52-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/15/175043/519

We know not to expect the best from airline food but this cheese toastie from BMI Airlines is a little too much to take. According to Flickr member kh1234567890:

This delicacy - a cheese 'toastie' was served on the BMI transatlantic ORD-MAN flight. Accompanied by a couple of pieces of mouldy pineapple and some two days old coffee. Yummy.

Why can't airlines just serve cereal or granola? Provided the milk isn't mouldy, it can't be too hard to screw up can it?

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Is this really a first class chocolate chip cookie? We're well-qualified cookie connoisseurs and although we're told that this choc chip one is served warm, we're still a little reluctant to give it a first class badge, even though this is what they serve in the first class cabin of American Airlines flights--or at least they did on a recent flight between Chicago and Denver.

The rest of this first class meal looks like a reasonable snack--it's a turkey croissant sandwich with salad, if you're squinting to check--but still, it doesn't quite have the pizazz we're expecting for first class. Non-matching plates, no garnish on the cookie and a slightly sad looking salad don't really make up for the price jump to get this seat. Indeedy, if you just remove the plastic wrapping from the sandwiches in coach and slap 'em on a plate in first, it doesn't look that much differnt.

Of course, we're probably just jealous that people can afford to fly first from Chicago to Denver.

Enlighten us coach sufferers with your first class travel snacks here.

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[Photo: Scorpions and Centaurs] ]]> amandak 2009-04-03T14:26:31-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/3/103250/9546

Hunger may be the best sauce, but outrage will do: Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologize after taking a flight attendant to task about not getting him the meal he wanted.

Rudd took a 23-year-old flight attendant to task when he was aboard a flight in January on a Royal Australian Air Force plane between Port Moresby and Canberra. Apparently there were no meals available for Rudd's special diet, for which he eschews red meat. (Uh, eat around it, dude?) Rudd told reporters as he arrived in London, "All of us are human I’m human. I’m not perfect, you know."

We still haven't completely nailed down our own personal food-on-the-plane strategy, though of course it depends on the flight. (In one of our Google searches on the subject, the top result was for canned cat food. Don't think so.) Marie Claire travel blogger Sarah Wexler recommends packing pita pockets (hold the mayo), Cup Noodles and individually wrapped candy to keep the angries at bay. Others swear by trail mix, power bars, or their own homemade PB and J. What do you pack to avoid hunger pains in-flight? Tell us in comments below.

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· Airline Food coverage [Jaunted]]]> egw 2009-04-03T10:52:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/3/16/124633/712

Only months after Southwest Airlines announced their turn to cashless cabins, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins has hinted at going beyond selling soda and Monster energy drinks in favor of peddling full in-flight meal service. Although this would be a wonky move for a carrier so wrapped up in its own no-frillsness, it would definitely improve customer satisfaction and make Southwest a favorite among diabetics and others who'd prefer to have more than a packet of peanuts on a 4-hour flight.

Don't take your plastic out after takeoff just yet, however, as the idea to vend food in-flight is still in the brainstorming stages over at SWA. Since we like having options aside from which end of the aircraft to use the bathroom, we're into this idea, but suggest they take it a step further and leverage their Twitter account for public response. Perhaps a monthly special as voted on by @southwest's followers? Because let's face it, that's just about the only way we'll be able to get some decent roast beef at 33,000' above Oklahoma.

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[Photo: ChicagoEye]]]> JetSetCD 2009-03-16T13:28:21-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/2/18/115110/316

There is at least one airline listening to passenger's calls for better meal service and an attention to eco-responsibility. Qatar Airways has just announced a complete revampment of their in-flight food service for flights to and from England, and surprisingly the focus is on quality in economy class.

Instead of sad, beige plastic trays with the airline logo, Qatar Airways will be rolling out clear, 99% recyclable lightweight trays and serving sets which will be set onto a placemat in a color of your choosing. ]]> JetSetCD 2009-02-18T16:01:07-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/10/17/141947/41

Yesterday, Virgin America announced that it would start serving mixed-in-the-cabin cocktails, a move another airline has tried before. But that obscured the real news of the day: First class passengers will get free, freshly baked, warm cookies on red eye flights.

There's only one other airline handing out cookies these days, and it's the one that invented the idea: Midwest. And while we applaud any effort to please passengers that involves sugary goodness, at least Midwest hands out treats to everyone.

By flouting the age-old rule about cookie sharing like this, Virgin clearly isn't counting on any first grade teachers being on board.

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[Photo of Midwest's cookies: azalea]]]> pbb 2008-10-17T14:30:46-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/