Nearly 50,000 people purchased prepackaged airline meals are available for home delivery. It was just not vacation travel that they missed, but also the airplane food.
A company called Imperfect Foods sells surplus grocery products and misshapen produce. They ship directly to your doorstep. This month, subscribers to Imperfect Foods discovered $9 JetBlue Airways snack packs of mixed cheeses, plus dried cherries and crackers. Imperfect Foods offered them at an attractive price of $3.
Imperfect Foods CEO said, (quote) “This was one of our first COVID-19 food waste recovery opportunities. We could only take a fraction of what this airplane meal supplier had.”
The airlines have donated snacks that cannot be sold to food banks such as Feeding America. United Airlines collected almost 100 tons of food from their kitchens and airport lounges. Then gave it away to several food banks. Southwest donated in-flight items that filled 13 tractor-trailers.(The Washington Post)