There are a small number of airlines that offer inflight chefs, who generally help with preparing meals in first and business class. In this post, I’d like to talk about that in a bit more detail — which airlines have inflight chefs, and is this just a marketing gimmick, or is there some substance to it?
However, they are also generally trained as flight attendants (in terms of safety and service), so you’ll usually see them in the normal flight attendant uniform for takeoff and landing, and then they’ll put on the chef’s uniform for the meal services. But is there really such a thing as an onboard “chef,” or is this all marketing?
The onboard chef is doing nothing that flight attendants couldn’t otherwise do. On airlines without onboard chefs, you typically have flight attendants working the “galley” position, meaning they’re not actually going to be in the aisle during the meal service, but rather will be in the galley preparing meals, so that the other flight attendants can serve them to passengers.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on One Mile at a Time.
