A Ryanair flight attendant has shared their top tips when ordering from the airline's world-renowned food trolley, and which items you should avoid.
Customers who get peckish during their flights will know all too well how alluring the refreshment cart may be throughout their traveling experience - with an abundance of food, drinks and scratch cards on sale. Cabin crew who work for the Irish firm are heavily incentivised to sell as many goods as they can from the cart, with £300 a month potentially landing in their monthly pay check solely from sales.
One piece of advice they offered for those endlessly browsing the snacks menu is none other than the variety of hot drinks the company offer, according to The Mirror. "The coffee and hot chocolate are actually quite good, particularly the coffee," a flight attendant said - adding: "The coffee is proper filter stuff. I'd drink it."
One item that they pass on however, is the humble Twix, which costs as much as £2.25 on flight. "Honestly, the price of a bar of chocolate onboard," they continued. "It's £2.25 for a Twix. I wouldn't go for that. I would bring my own with me."
The price of a 75g Twix from Tesco is 80p, meaning the cost on a Ryanair flight is almost three times more. Another flight attendant told the Mirror how it can be very stressful attempting to get everyone fed and watered during a short haul flight, explaining: "A few weeks ago I did a flight in the evening.
"Ryanair stocks the bar first thing in the morning, so on lates you have whatever is left. The bar was empty when I got in board. "It was a five hour flight to Tenerife. I spoke to this woman and she wanted food for her kids, I apologised and told her there's no food, there's not much I can do about it.
"But for her it became my fault. She said I'm 'useless', it's 'my fault' her kids are going to stave tonight. I 'should be ashamed'. The amount of times I have wanted to tell passengers exactly what I think of them...."
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