ANA to Offer New Inflight Meals with an Emphasis on Healthy, Sustainably Sourced Offerings

23rd February 2022

  • New menu options feature plant-based and sustainably sourced ingredients, decreasing the passenger’s carbon footprint
  • Meals will be available to all passengers on international flights departing from Japan beginning on March 1

All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan’s largest and 5-Star airline for nine consecutive years, will begin offering expanded inflight meal options on select international routes, featuring healthier dishes and ingredients with less environmental impact. Available from March 1, the new dishes align with the values of ANA Future Promise, the airline’s initiative to promote sustainability and social good.

“These new meals demonstrate our commitment to prioritizing sustainability and openness while still providing an unrivaled passenger experience,” said Junko Yazawa, Senior Vice President overseeing Customer Experience Management & Planning. “The meals include healthy, sustainably sourced ingredients and are prepared with the same degree of precision and dedication as all of our inflight cuisine.”

Passengers traveling in business class will be able to select a healthy rice bowl topped with a plant-based cutlet. In addition to being meat-free, this sustainable meal contains less fat and fewer calories, presenting a satisfying option for health conscious travelers.

ANA has long been recognized for the excellence of its inflight dining options, and recently launched a series of healthy meals in collaboration with its elite “THE CONNOISSEURS” culinary partners. Made up of distinguished chefs and sommeliers from Japan and abroad, THE CONNOISSEURS work to ensure that ANA is able to offer a diverse set of culinary options that are prepared with the finest ingredients and the highest possible attention to detail.

Separately, economy class passengers on international routes departing from Japan will be served salads including soft kale grown from ANA’s composting operations. This sustainably-sourced fresh soft kale will improve the flavor of inflight salads.

At ANA Catering Service, approximately 248 tons of food waste and 28 tons of oil is collected every year (as of 2019), and since 2008 the ANA Group has recycled 100% of the waste into compost and animal feed. Moving forward, ANA will utilize more food products produced through this composting operation in keeping with its commitment to the goals of ANA Future Promise.