Champagne taste on a beer budget.
People who say airplane food is terrible have probably never flown up front, where it’s generally not half bad — and there’s a way to get a nibble of the good life without springing for a pricey ticket, a former flight attendant revealed.
Erstwhile Emirates crew member Kamila Jakubjakova spilled to The Sun in a tell-all of her time in the air that’s recently resurfaced — and one of her most surprising secrets was how simple it can be to upgrade your menu options on a long-haul flight.
You may be stuck in coach, but you could be eating like a business or first class passenger, according to one flight attendant.
Were they out of the beef tenderloin by the time it was your turn to be served? Not happy with rubbery pasta and stale bread? Make a (polite) stink.
“Sometimes, if someone maybe didn’t get their preferred meal choice and then complained and made a big fuss about it, we would bring them a meal from business class instead to soften the blow,” she said.
