A grounded experience for high-flyers turned feather dusters
Outsider knows one or two financial services high-flyers who are normally more than ready to flaunt their triple platinum frequent flyer status but are currently having to endure the more grounded experience of we mere mortals.
Life is tough when you can’t jump the queue and quaff the champers in seat 1A.
Not that Outsider is feeling particularly sorry for these high-flying corporate eagles who COVID-19 has turned into hens and roosters, but he would like to point out that at least one airline is acknowledging their pain and is offering the in-flight eating experience to these corporate nomads without them actually having to leave the ground.
It might seem like an oxymoron to some, but Singapore Airlines has turned one of its grounded Airbus A380 aircraft into a “fine dining restaurant” where you can apparently sit up in first and business class and work your way through the in-flight menu.
Outsider presumes that such mastication is carried out utilising proper crockery and cutlery rather than the plastic and tinfoil that predominates on the flights he takes these days.
Now Outsider acknowledges that there was a time when he got to sit up the front of the aircraft on international flights but these days he sits further towards the toilets up the back and with due respect to the usually polite cabin crew he, for one, is not signing up to sample a Qantas or Virgin snack while grounded.
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