Not all airplane flights offer free meals. Domestic airlines such as Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Hainan Airlines and several other major airlines offer free meals. However, low-cost airlines such as OOCL and Spring Airlines do not offer free catering and can be purchased on the plane at their own expense. The meals provided on the airplane are small in portion and will not be very filling.

1. Domestic airlines such as Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Hainan Airlines and several other major airlines can provide free meals.

2, OOCL and Spring Airlines and other low-cost airlines is not to provide free food and beverage services, can be purchased on the plane at their own expense.

Extended information:

Air China flight time of 90 minutes or more, no matter what time of the flight, basically with a more complete in-flight meal. If it is not a meal point (before 9:30 a.m. 11:00-13:30 p.m. 17:00-19:00 p.m. each airline will be different this is just a reference time) but the flight time of more than 45 minutes will be provided with sandwiches and other snacks meal, some even only provide a packet of peanut rice.?

Breakfast is served from 6:00-9:00, lunch from 11:00-13:30 and dinner from 17:30-19:00. If an hour or less is basically fast food, small burritos, peanut rice and so on. Drinks, meals, newspapers and magazines are free on the airplane. If you don't have enough to eat, you can ask the stewardess for it, and they will give it to you if there is any surplus.

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