Using the recently opened travel bubble to the Cook Islands as its testing ground, Air New Zealand is trying out a range of new Economy breakfast options.
The national carrier has posted on Twitter a poll of the four new options that are being trialled – pain au chocolat, a frittata, breakfast wrap or a muesli bowl.
The testing will take place between January 20-23 on flights to Rarotonga, and it’s available to those who have booked Works or Works Deluxe tickets. Currently, the options onboard are a bacon and egg panini or a bagel with cream cheese and conserve.
Air New Zealand General Manager Customer Leeanne Langridge said the airline has been busy working on new onboard offerings.
“While we’ve had less flights in the skies, we’ve been working away on our new cabin experience and there are some exciting developments in the pipeline,” said Langridge.
“Customers can expect to taste some new delights like fresh pastries, vegetarian frittatas and breakfast wraps all served in sustainable bagasse serviceware that was trialled last year. The in-flight trials are all about modernising our food offering and keeping up with the eating preferences of today.”
For the first two days of the trial, the options will be either the current standard hot breakfast, or breakfast wrap with mini pinwheel pastry, or muesli bowl with mini pinwheel pastry, while the second two days will be either the current standard hot breakfast, or vege frittata with mini pain au chocolat, or muesli bowl with mini pain au chocolat.
“The food being trialled is just a representation of a few options we want to offer, so customers can expect to see other tasty pastries onboard for example,” said Langridge.
After tests involving more than 7000 passengers across 100 flights, the airline settled on a new range of in-flight snacks – a monthly rotation of popcorn, crisps, muesli bars and chocolate in addition to the traditional cookie. The previous snack of corn chips made way for the new offerings.
