The first is the cost. One of the root causes of bad airplane meals is the price. How much is the plane meal? This specific figure is an industry secret and will definitely not be made public. However, according to industry sources, the average cost of plane meals is 2% to 3% of air tickets. Is it surprising? This average is the average of all kinds of air tickets in a whole year, including discounted air tickets and air tickets redeemed for free points.

How is the flight profitable? In fact, for a flight, economy class can only bring little profit or even loss. What really makes money is first class and business class, except hand freight.

Most first class and business class guests are either rich or expensive, so they seek both hardware facilities and soft services when flying. Aircraft meals are also a category they consider. Why do you always say that first class and business class meals are delicious? Because airlines want to catch more such guests in order to make a profit, the meals in these two cabins are much higher than those in economy class and are specially designed. Therefore, from the cost point of view, it is doomed that the plane meal in economy class will not be too delicious, while the meals in first class and business class are ok. How do you think airlines will increase the cost of plane meals in unprofitable economy class? If you were the boss, would you do such a stupid thing? However, for business class and first class guests who are either rich or expensive, it is still cost-effective for airlines to increase the cost of plane meals and introduce better meals to attract more customers.

Secondly, humans will lose 30% of their sense of taste in the air at an altitude of 10,000 meters. When we are enjoying the airplane meal, the airplane must have completed the take-off and climb phase and entered a stable flight. At this time, the flight altitude of the plane will be 8000 to 10000 meters. At this height, our sense of smell and taste will be seriously affected, which is one of the fundamental reasons why we think airplane meals are terrible. Because the air pressure and humidity in the engine room will drop during climbing, when the flying height exceeds 1000m, the humidity will be lower than 12%, which is already drier than the desert. 80% of human perception of taste comes from the sense of smell. In such a dry environment, our sense of smell will fail, so we can't smell the original flavor of food, which makes us feel that food is indifferent and tasteless.

Another reason is that in fact, hearing will also affect our perception of whether the plane meal is delicious or not. Psychologists have found that people prefer food when eating in a quiet environment. When tasting food in a noisy environment, people will feel that the sweetness and salty taste of food are very weak, which will affect the taste. The ambient sound in the aircraft cabin is generally 85 decibels, which is very noisy, so it will also affect people's perception of food taste.