Alitalia Express (12 pictures & videos)

6/10

Luigi Vallero

Italy (MXP) to United States (VNC), 27 Dec 2003

Economy Class

Snack/Lunch A cardboard box containing a sandwich, a small cake, a cup of water, a refreshing towel/sugar packet and a paper napkin. (Menu Card)

Only mineral water and/or coffee.

This is the "international" version of the recently unveiled "all in one Alisnack box" concept now adopted by Alitalia and Alitalia Express on domestic and short international flights in order to reduce food, meal, catering costs, and replaces the previous "infamous" plastic box. As you will see it has the same design as the Alisnack domestic box, albeit in a bigger format. In this case the sandwich was a rather bland roll filled with cream cheese, roast turkey and rocket salad, while the cake was a not too bad pre-packaged sponge-style pastry. As per the drink service it is now down to "water or coffee" only! Definitely gone are wines and soft drinks... the run downhill continues! Not much to complain though on such a short sector, and the pretty flight attendant was extremely courteous as it often happens on AZ Express.

Date added: 2008-05-21   //   Flight: 00:00