Not necessarily.

The cost of an airplane meal is usually included in the price of the ticket and will be displayed in the ticket booking information for passengers to check. Whether an airplane provides meals depends on two factors:

Generally speaking, if the flight includes three meals during the morning and noon, the airline will provide airplane meals;

In addition, the flight time is also one of the factors affecting the airline whether to provide airplane meals, if the flight time is shorter, for example, about one hour, the takeoff and landing take up most of the flight time, it is too late to prepare the airplane meal. If the flight time is short, such as an hour or so, takeoff and landing take up most of the flight time, and it is too late to prepare the airplane meal, the airline tends not to provide airplane meal.

On medium and long-haul routes, there may be more than one airplane meal, and because of the time difference, each meal is usually served every five to six hours, and even if the location is not at mealtime, food such as cup noodles may be served between meals.

On shorter routes, such as domestic and international flights of less than two hours, only snacks, refreshments, sandwiches and drinks are served. On some very short-haul routes, only drinks are available.

Expanded:

Airplane meals for different classes of seating differ in terms of cuisine, portion size and cost.

First and business class meals are modeled after fine dining restaurants in terms of food and eating procedures, but they are still different from real restaurants.

Economy class meals are more similar to fast food, with efficiency of distribution, storage volume and cost as the main considerations, and the taste of the food is certainly not something that passengers would expect.

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