(TAN): While the pandemic is still keeping travel at bay, hundreds of ‘travel-starved’ diners have had lunch and watched films aboard two parked Singapore Airlines jets turned into pop-up restaurants.
Singapore’s flag carrier, which has cut thousands of jobs and grounded nearly all its planes this year, offered passengers the chance to dine on board two A380 superjumbos — the world’s biggest passenger jet.
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Diners checked in at Changi Airport and went through the usual security checks to arrive at the aircraft for lunch. Some diners were quoted as saying that the food was “better than the one” served by the airline onboard.
Some diners took a nap while waiting for their meals to be served, while others watched movies on the seat-back entertainment systems. keeping with social-distancing guidelines, about half the seats were left empty.
Calvin Teo, a 29-year-old civil servant and aviation buff was quoted as saying by Japan Times, “Of course the feeling of actually flying will be better, because there’s the excitement of going to a new destination, to explore a new destination, and even though we can’t do it now due to Covid, this is a good substitute for now, to recreate the feels of taking a long-haul flight.”
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A limited number of diners also took a tour of the double-decker aircraft and took selfies with pilots in the cockpit.
Earlier this month, more than 900 lunch tickets of the concept-restaurant had sold out within 30 minutes of bookings opening. The airline had then announced six additional sessions. They are also offering home deliveries of plane meals.
