Meals on the one-hour average intercity flights
across Nigeria are common these days, but Aero
Contractors seems to have upped the ante with
the offering on its Business Class service.
Those who have flown Aero Business Class lately
are commenting in the subdued, demure
excitement of that category of passengers about
the meals. The airline now offers well made,
beautifully packaged and interesting meals.
These include: tortilla wraps, a popular
alternative to sandwiches. Quick, light and
nutritious, the tortilla and wraps are surprisingly
filling.
Of Mexican origin with a variant from Spain,
tortillas have caught on with global cuisine as an
example of good meals-on-the-go. Apparently,
wraps of various kinds are some of the new
offerings on the inflight menu of Aero Business.
There were on offer Spicy Chicken wraps, Caesar
Chicken Wraps as well as Chicken and Steak
Wrap.
Then there were some sandwiches. These taste
very succulent and rich, reminding one of
gourmet variety sandwiches such as one finds in
Marks & Spencer in the UK.
Aero and its catering team deserve kudos for
these interesting developments given its
experimentation with inflight service. After Dana
pioneered the meal pack on board Economy
flights, many of the airlines followed suit.
However, the Aero economy meal packs actually
have better and varied pastries. You can see
many passengers taking their packs away to eat
later! We also noticed that some of their
competition’s meal packs have deteriorated to
dry low-grade crackers as if to say to the
passenger, “we are just fulfilling all
righteousness”.
What is interesting is how Aero has
experimented. It tried in the immediate period of
its crisis to sell meals on-board. That did not fly
with passengers particularly as there was no
discernible improvement on the pre-sale offering
to justify paying for inflight meals on the one-
hour flight. Most passengers demurred.
It has struck gold since last year on the Business
Class with the meal wraps as well as the hot
meals. Look out for the croissant sandwich
pockets or ask for any of the wraps when next
you fly Business Class. The quality of recent
offerings is exciting enough to make one wonder
if the Airline and its caterer could consider
extending the service offline at key airports or
city centres.

Aero meal service makes perfect sense despite offering lower price for their ticket compared to airlines like Arik that charge higher yet offer low quality refreshments in flight