AirAsia Hosts Santan Food Festival

Santan, the inflight food brand of AirAsia, refers to coconut milk in Bahasa language, as one of the key ingredients of Asean cuisine.
The event showcased the gastronomical delights of Santan hot meals from across AirAsia’s network, including the latest signature dish, Thai Green Curry with Rice, an aromatic chicken curry infused with authentic Thai spices served with fluffy fragrant white rice.
AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes said: “Food is a great unifying factor across the region. What we are doing is bringing the wonderful flavours of Asean into Santan to create a unique food experience, with the vision of replicating the on-ground gourmet experience onboard. The flavour profile and pricing of inflight food has always been a challenge but we believe that with Santan, we can create the first restaurant brand in the sky that is both tasty and affordable.”
“In line with our digitalisation efforts, we will leverage on data we have from more than 400 million guests carried over the years to create better, more innovative inflight offerings, including for Santan. We will implement an electronic point of sales system soon that will make ordering and payment as easy as a restaurant and allow us to better understand what our guests want. 
“We are also exploring the use of green packaging and inflight coffee trolleys to enable us to serve freshly brewed premium coffee onboard, and we will continue working with local Asean enterprises and farmers in developing F&B products,” he added.
The “Santan Food Festival” was attended by more than 200 members of the media and key influencers from 16 markets: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Australia.