First, your flight may have been too short to provide a meal.
Second, you may be traveling on a low-cost carrier.
Although airplanes don't allow liquids to be carried on board, drinks such as tea and beverages are provided on board and you can ask the flight attendants for them.
He might give you a packet of peanuts, or a loaf of bread or a cake or something
Usually planes that take off before 9am give breakfast, those that take off at 12-13am have lunch, and those that take off at around 17-18pm have dinner, which is a regular meal, that is, with rice or noodles
In addition to these times, there are other times when planes are served. p>
Other than these times, you are usually given a drink and a box of snacks with bread and fruit in it.
The flights that are very short, about an hour long, don't have any meals, just drinks.
When China Southern says that they don't serve meals, they mean they don't serve meals.
There are guaranteed snacks and drinks on board.
Because the official website of China Southern says that snacks will be served if there is no meal, and drinks will definitely be available.
--In-flight service:
In addition to the setup of First Class, Business Class and Economy Class, China Southern Airlines officially launched the Premium Economy Class on its domestic routes on March 18, 2010, becoming the first Chinese airline to add the Premium Economy Class to its passenger aircraft. The new cabin is the first in China to add a premium economy class on board a passenger aircraft.
The newly added Premium Economy Class offers 40% more space than regular Economy Class seats, expanding the front-to-back pitch of the original Economy Class seats from 31 inches to 35 to 37 inches, and 24 to 53 Premium Economy Class seats, depending on the size of the aircraft type, separated into dedicated areas by the addition of doors or curtains.
*** About 300 China Southern aircraft were retrofitted by July 2010, bringing a total of 7,000 Premium Economy Class seats to market.
China Southern offers Portable Multimedia Devices (PMDs) on some of its long-haul aircraft, *** featuring eight sections such as Air Cinema, TV Theatre, Music Time, and Blue Sky Bookstore.
Most of the rest of the airliners maintain broadcast audio and video systems.
In-flight reading materials include the official China Southern Airlines magazine, "Contacts", "Home in the Sky" (all in English), and "China Southern Airlines Newspaper", etc.
China Southern Airlines was founded in 1985, and now has an average circulation of 220,000 copies per month.
International flights also offer onboard duty-free sales, including cigarettes, cosmetics and alcohol.