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Can a new kitchen cut flight delays?

 

That's an odd question to be asking, but it's no more odd than realizing that at American Airlines' home base at Dallas/Fort Worth, backups in the kitchens that prepare food for flight delayed twenty planes a day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, a total of 2,300 flights.

American is hoping to change that with a new hyper-efficient $100 million kitchen it's building at DFW, set to open in 2022, forty years after the present kitchen was built. The airline clears about 900 flights a day out of its DFW hub, far more, and far bigger planes in many cases, than it was flying back then.

The actual operation of the kitchen is contracted out to LSG Sky Chefs, a familiar sight to flyers at many airports. Although it's a subsidiary of Lufthansa, it has roots in American Airlines history as well.  Sky Chefs, founded in 1942 and owned by American, was merged into Lufthansa Service Group in 1966.

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