For the last four years, Australian ex-pat Nik Loukas has hopped on hundreds of flights just to sample their culinary offering. Along the way, he’s eaten everything from steak and lobster to satay and sushi – and he can certainly tell you which airlines have the best, and the worst, food.
Speaking to MailOnline Travel, Loukas said that his passion began in 2011 when he moved from Australia to Europe.
As he worked in the airline industry, around 30 per cent of his time is spent in the air for work. He started collecting menus and soon built these into his website, www.inflightfeed.com, where he now catalogs his own flights as well as news from the industry.
Since the blog was founded in 2012, he’s taken over 400 flights, tallying up to more than 400,000 miles – or 17 times around the world.
Greek Aegean carrier is one of Loukas’ favourite gourmet airlines. While travelling from Brussels to Athens in business class, he started the gastronomic experience with a chicken salad.

On the same Aegean flight, he also had the grilled fillet of chicken with Lyonnaise potatoes, green beans and turkey bacon with lemon thyme sauce.

To finish, Aegean served up a selection of Greek pastries with an Illy coffee, which was Loukas’ favourite coffee
Singapore Airlines is Loukas’ absolute favourite airline to fly for food. With Singapore Airline Suites, he tried a lobster thermidor and it was ‘amazing’.

On a one-hour flight from Izmir to Istanbul with Pegasus Airlines, Loukas enjoyed a steak with grilled vegetables,  potato bake and Turkish salad before rounding off the meal with a chocolate cake.

AirBaltic, which will feature in the documentary that Loukas is making, served him a simple Caprese salad, chicken with grilled seasonal vegetables and a chocolate cream cake on a flight from Riga to Brussels.
Speaking to MailOnline Travel, Loukas said that his passion began in 2011 when he moved from Australia to Europe.
As he worked in the airline industry, around 30 per cent of his time is spent in the air for work.

The Dublin-based frequent flier told MailOnline Travel: ‘I love everything about airline meals. I wanted to show passengers what they could eat in the air.
Loukas, who says that he travels and collects these menus, and now photographs, for fun, spends a substantial amount of his savings on the flights but also takes advantage of his frequently flier points for business and first class upgrades.
The airline food enthusiast said: ‘Sometimes I travel to a destination just to sample the food. Recently, I flew from Paris to Taipei with EVA Air just to try their Hello Kitty meal.’
That offering, he said, was very memorable – not least because it was designed for children and his fellow travellers were more than a little baffled by his meal option.

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