Flight of the eateries: Turks are tops!

Sorry this blog is all about food at the mo, but travel search engine skyscanner has just told us what we already knew, that Turkish Airlines has the best food in the skies.

I've flown Turkish several times (last time, notably, to Tehran, which prompted a blog entry that had a Kevin Costner fan in a tizzzzz). What's refreshing about this survey is that while Turkish might use Kev to suck some more American travel dollars into its coffers, it doesn't use the big name chefs for its menu (eg. Singapore and potty-mouthed Gordon Ramsay, Qantas and old yellow fang, Neil Perry etc).

The airline simply relies on the simple fact that Turkish is one of the most fabulous cuisines on the planet. I have to say I'm surprised at finding Aer Lingus up at number four (the memory of hardened blood sausage and those strange little white, veiny bangers comes to mind) and Aeroflot one point behind Qantas, but am not surprised by the high-ranking Emirati airlines, Etihad and Emirates, though I didn't expect Qatar to be so low. Here are the final scores:

Airline	Score
Turkish Airlines	86
Singapore Airlines	81
Etihad	80
Aer Lingus	78
Emirates	77
Cathay Pacific	75
KLM	75
Qantas	72
Aeroflot	71
Air France	70
Iberia	65
SAS	64
United Airlines	62
British Airways	60
Qatar Airways	57
Virgin Atlantic	57
Alitalia	54
Lufthansa	53
American Airlines	47.5