{"id":5067,"date":"2010-04-14T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2016-12-16T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T00:43:03","slug":"no-free-food-in-coach-steak-beer-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/no-free-food-in-coach-steak-beer-at-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"No free food in coach; steak, beer at the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1155\" title=\"continental\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/continental-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"flights\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/continental-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/continental-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/continental.jpg 1479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Continental Airlines on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=continental-airlines-flight-deals&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_blank\">Continental Airlines<\/a><\/strong> has announced that it will join other legacy carriers by dropping free meals on coach <a title=\"Cheap flights, cheap tickets on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_blank\">flights<\/a>. Didn&#8217;t know Continental still offered free meals in coach? It did, in meal-time windows that had become so miniscule that you can be forgiven for not knowing. By the fall, free grub in the back of the bus will be gone, except on those few Continental domestic flights that exceed six hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Palm<\/strong>, a New York steakhouse that has, er, staked out a nationwide presence, has come full circle and opened a branch of the chain in Terminal 4 of New York\/Kennedy Airport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lufthansa<\/strong> has opened a beer garden in one of its business-class lounges at Munich. Located in a lounge in Terminal 2, the garden opened on March 23 and is a cooperative effort with Franziskaner, a noted &#8220;weiss bier&#8221; brewer. Of course, there&#8217;ll be pretzels and draught beers tapped from a barrel. This is Bavaria, after all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Related Orbitz resources:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Business travel on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=roadwarrior&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_blank\">Business travel<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a title=\"Cheap flights, cheap tickets on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_blank\">Flights<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Joe Brancatelli is editor and publisher of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joesentme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JoeSentMe.com<\/a>, a  non-commercial Web site for business travelers. Copyright 2009 by Joe  Brancatelli. 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By the fall, free grub in the back of the bus will be gone, except on those few Continental domestic flights that exceed six hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2216,421,170],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","tag-business-travel","tag-continental-airlines","tag-lufthansa"],"acf":{"api_active":null,"api_title":null,"api_excerpt":null,"api_featured_image":null,"api_lob":null},"posts_api_cpm_point":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No free food in coach; steak, beer at the airport | Orbitz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/no-free-food-in-coach-steak-beer-at-the-airport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No free food in coach; steak, beer at the airport | Orbitz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Continental Airlines has announced that it will join other legacy carriers and drop free meals on coach flights. 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