Also called: Flight Kitchen Cook, In-Flight Catering Chef
Prepares and packs meals for airline flights in huge kitchens near airports.
You help produce 30,000 meals a day that must be chilled, packed into carts, and loaded onto planes on precise schedules. Menus are designed to taste good at 35,000 feet, where taste buds dull. Food-safety rules are extremely strict.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Culinary training and large-volume kitchen experience.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Trade school, 2-year college. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Culinary Arts.
Growing about average.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Flight kitchens use more automated portioning and packing lines; menu planning and quality stay human.
Classes: Culinary arts CTE, Math, Foods & Nutrition class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 35-1011.
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