National airline takes the biscuit from the mouth of Irish farmers

ON a recent Aer Lingus flight from New York to Dublin I was somewhat shocked when it came to serving the so-called ‘meal’ on board.

On close examination of the neatly packaged cartons of food, I discovered, to my nationalistic horror, that Aer Lingus buys its on-flight milk from Minnesota, cheese from Vermont and biscuits from Illinois.

Best of all was the fact that Aer Lingus buys its on-flight water from Connecticut. This is from a State-owned airline whose country of origin has some of the highest annual rainfall anywhere in the world.