More Delta passengers will be able to grab mouth-watering Shake Shake burgers 35,000 feet above the ground.
In December 2024, the companies coordinated to serve cheeseburgers to first-class flyers departing from Boston.
The sandwich included an angus beef patty, topped with cheese and served on a toasted potato bun.
Passengers could customize their orders with tomatoes, lettuce, and sauce. They also received a side salad, chips, and a brownie.
Now, the companies are expanding the offerings to more passengers.
Some flights out of Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York-LaGuardia, and Seattle’s airports will now carry the offering.
But there are two catches: the burgers are only served on flights that travel more than 900 miles, and only first-class flyers are able to place Shake Shack orders.
‘Customers are raving about the Shake Shack experience onboard our flights after serving more than 10,000 burgers out of Boston since launching in December,’ Stephanie Laster, Delta’s managing director of onboard service, said in a press release.
Passengers in some Delta flights can now order Shake Shack burgers
‘This is part of our work to partner with brands our customers already know and love while continuing to raise the bar for the in-flight experience.’
Flyers must also ‘pre-select’ the meal option before their flight takes off.
First-class passengers can opt for the burger in the Delta app and online a week before their plane takes off.
Changes can be made to the order 24 hours before the flight. If passengers don’t opt in to the burgers a day before their departure, they won’t be able to get the burger.
Redditors have had some mixed reactions to the airplane-based burger meal.
‘Nothing says luxury more than a reheated fast food burger,’ one flyer chided.
Another Redditor said the Shake Shake burgers look ‘leaps and bounds better than the beige vaguely chicken slop I was served on a [recent] flight.’
Delta has partnered with dozens of companies to bring in-flight meals and snacks to its passengers.
Shake Shack’s burgers are now served on flights from five cities after a successful launch from planes departing from Boston
The burgers join a slate of offerings from the major airliner
The company serves Biscoff cookies, Sun Chips, and 88 Acres granola bars.
Delta also serves chicken salad sandwiches, fruit and cheese plates, and snack packs on other 900-mile-plus flights.
While the burgers may look enticing to restaurant-goers, studies show that plane passengers may have the same sense of enjoyment in the air.
According to research commissioned by Lufthansa, human perception of salt is reduced by 20 and 30 percent while flying.
The research showed that nearly 70 percent of passengers’ sense of taste is lost onboard.
‘When people accuse airline food of being bland, this may not be an entirely fair assumption,’ Artemis, the organization behind the study, wrote.
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