How the "winged restaurant" Japanese airline All Nippon Airways
The airline All Nippon Airways came up with a new way to please its loyal customers that because of the pandemic, miss flying and nutrition in business class. She one day discovered "the restaurant with the wings" in a parked aircraft, but because the people tumbled down the shaft, and now the company plans to continue.
It turned out that people are willing to pay a lot of money to sit in the cabin, to eat and just to remember how it happens!
In this restaurant, all the same, as during the flight – are broadcast announcement of the crew, instead of the waitresses flight attendants, for entry tickets are required, in the form of boarding passes. Visitors occupy the seats reserved for them, but belts can not wear your seat belt.
Menu – the food is usually served on international flights in business class and first class. The food in business class is 269 dollars in the first class – $ 540. For the money, you can taste the foie Gras mousse with crab meat or fillet of Wagyu beef.
Despite the fact that the pleasure is not cheap, tickets, the restaurant was sold out in one day, and now the airline plans to organize at least ten of such activities – provided that the country will not happen tightening quarantine measures.
Now the "winged restaurant" follows the necessary steps distancing in the interior are allowed only 60 visitors to be able to provide some distance between them. The Japanese carrier is not the first Asian airline to offer meals on Board the aircraft out of flight.
Hundreds of eager journeys visitors had dinner and watched movies on two parked aircraft of Singapore Airlines in October last year, tickets were sold at a price up to 642 Singapore dollars (U.S. $ 470).
Like other airlines around the world, ANA is strongly affected by travel restrictions related to the pandemic. In January, she confirmed its forecast of a record net loss of $ 4.9 billion in this fiscal year to March 2021, compared with 249 million U.S. dollars in net profit in the previous year.
Net loss ANA Holdings for the nine months was 309.6 billion yen ($3 billion), which is also a record. So you have to get out somehow!
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