Here’s what you need to know about food safety before your next flight. Avoid raw food — or anything that’s kept cold ...

Airplane food often gets a bad rap. As it turns out, it's not entirely the airlines' fault that food tastes different at 30,000 feet than it does on terra firma — and it's not all in your head ...

Airplane food often gets a bad rap. As it turns out, it’s not entirely the airlines’ fault that food tastes different at 30,000 feet than it does on terra firma — and it’s not all in your ...

The bigger issue, though, is that the "confined nature of airplane travel makes foodborne illness outbreaks especially challenging to manage," Darin Detwiler, a food safety adviser at Northeastern ...

Food safety experts say tainted airplane meals could be more ubiquitous than reported.

Airplane food has fallen a long way from the glory days of in-flight dining when meals were served on white tablecloths and stewardesses scrambled eggs in the air.

However, given the unique challenges involved in serving hundreds of meals in a confined space with recycled air, it’s fair to ask whether airplane food is really safe to eat.

There have been alleged incidents that include rodents, insects and a slew of food poisoning. While federal agencies work to monitor airplane food, experts say that not everything is as it seems.