(TAN): Lufthansa is launching the “Onboard Delights Last Minute” initiative, under which passengers can purchase fresh food products that have not been sold by then, shortly before landing on flights to Frankfurt and Munich on which these are offered, at the lower price of a uniform EUR 3.50 (USD 3.80), and take them with them, the airline said.
This is a further step toward reducing food waste, after Lufthansa already introduced the option of pre-ordering these products this February.
Another new feature of Lufthansa Onboard Delights is that award miles can be collected and redeemed when purchasing food and beverages from the Onboard Delights range. At least one award mile is credited per euro when the Miles & More card is presented.
Sustainability is one of the Lufthansa Group’s top priorities. On short-haul flights, the amount of food waste is to be reduced by 50% by 2025 compared to 2019. To achieve this, the Lufthansa Group is optimizing catering processes, offering passengers the opportunity to order meals in advance, and reducing the amount of products held in stock as standard. As a result, Lufthansa was already able to reduce the proportion of discarded perishable food by 45 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year.
Austrian, SWISS and Eurowings have already been offering unsold food at reduced prices since 2022. As a result, about 80,000 food products were consumed in 2022 that would otherwise have been disposed of.
