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British Airways proposes to stop serving free meals on long-haul flights.
— Although passengers once took it for granted that on-board food would be free, airline meals began on a Handley Page flight from London to Paris in 1919, when a packed lunch of sandwiches and fruit cost three shillings (just under £8 now).
— Once free meals were the norm, the first carrier to call a halt was South West Airlines, founded in the USA in 1967. It offered free peanuts instead, calling itself ‘the peanut airline’ with ‘peanut fares’.
— Ryanair went one further in cutting frills, charging €2 for a pack of peanuts.
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