<ul class="summary-list"><li>The company that supplies <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/united-airlines">United Airlines</a> with its first class nut mixes is selling bags of the snacks directly to consumers at huge discounts.</li><li>With United and other <keyword id="44023" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="airlines">airlines</keyword> cutting flights and reducing on-board service due to the <keyword id="8763838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="covid-19">COVID-19</keyword> pandemic, suppliers like <keyword id="9830012" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="gns-foods">GNS Foods</keyword> can find themselves holding unneeded products or supplies at risk of spoilage.</li><li>The nuts are available online for as little as $7.99 for a two-pound bag.</li></ul>It's a hallmark of first class airline travel: A small ramekin of warm mixed nuts, washed down with a glass of sparkling wine as you watch the hoi polloi file past on their way to their economy seats and await takeoff. But along with so many trappings of life aloft, the COVID-19 pandemic has done away with that savory snacking. As <keyword id="6354691" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Air-travel">air travel</keyword> demand plummeted in March, airlines pulled back on their catering to reduce cost and limit contact between passengers and flight attendants.That has left GNS Foods, which supplies <keyword id="137254" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="United-Airlines">United Airlines</keyword> with its nuts, with more than 30,000 pounds of excess food. With a year left of ingredient contracts, the company has a warehouse full of baggies of mixed nuts and raw ingredients.Faced with the risk of spoilage, GNS is turning to retail channels, selling its goods at what it says are "near-cost" prices.The overstock situation is just the latest example of how the pandemic has tipped the broader airline industry — which operates on tight margins and tight supply chains — into disarray. Suppliers and contractors have seen sales and contracts cancelled, while a reduced demand for airplanes has impacted planemakers and their long supply chains.<div type="image" title="GNS Foods United First Class Mixed Nuts" height="2427" width="2700" msid="77768696" hostid="261"></div>People looking to stock up on quarantine snacks for cheap can find the two-pound bags of the <a href="https://www.greatnuts.com/elite-status-nut-mix-2-pounds/">Elite Status mix (that's whole cashews and whole almonds) for $7.99</a> on the company's online storefront, and of the <a href="https://www.greatnuts.com/elite-status-hawaii-mix-2-pounds/">Elite Status Hawaii mix (whole cashews, whole almonds, and large whole macadamia nuts) for $10.99</a> — peanuts compared to what you'd typically shell out at a store like Whole Foods.Retailers looking for large quantities can call GNS at 817-795-4671.

Airlines have stopped offering mixed nuts because of coronavirus, so one supplier is selling them directly to customers at huge discounts

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Airlines are offering their leftover in-flight meals to customers who aren't flying, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/02/grounded-beef-airlines-sell-in-flight-meals-to-earthbound-travellers">The Guardian reported</a>. </li><li>Thai Airways, Indonesia's Garuda, and Cathay Pacific have all offered meals for sale, presented just as you'd find them on the plane, the paper reported.</li><li>Airline suppliers have been left with masses of surplus stock because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Air-travel volumes are not expected to return to previous levels for years.</li></ul>Some airlines are offering their in-flight menus for sale as a standalone product to satisfy a growing nostalgia for the experience of air travel, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/02/grounded-beef-airlines-sell-in-flight-meals-to-earthbound-travellers">The Guardian reports</a>.Little trays of sealed plastic dishes, just as you'd find them at 35,000 feet, are being sold by companies including Thai Airways, which has been selling the meals since April, the newspaper reported. Aerofood ACS, the company that makes dishes for Indonesia's national airline, Garuda, is offering its meals as takeout, and airport workers can buy in-flight meals from Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific, according to the paper. The coronavirus pandemic has hit airlines hard, leaving them with surplus stock and a need to bring in money however they can.The International Air Transport Association said in late July that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airlines-coronavirus-recovery-2024-delays-2020-7">the industry was not expected to recover until 2024</a> at the earliest.Of the flights that are operating, many have forbidden eating as a hygiene measure, a further blow to the companies that supply <keyword id="6181" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Food">food</keyword> to airlines.GNS Nuts, which supplies American Airlines, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-first-class-nut-mix-sale-coronavirus-2020-8">was left with 30,000 pounds of excess food in storage</a>, and has resorted to selling nuts online at what it called "near-cost" prices.The situation has led several airlines to sell their surplus in-flight goodies in other venues, the paper reported. Qantas has sold $18 "care packs" including airline dressing gowns, cookies, and sleep masks.

Airlines are selling in-flight meals for people who aren't flying but really miss eating on a plane

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="141575" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Qantas">Qantas</keyword> listed 1,000 bar carts packed with wine, snacks, and candy for sale this week, and they all sold out within two hours. </li><li>The carts came off of the Australian airline's Boeing 747s, which it recently retired. </li><li>Qantas sold full bar carts for just over $1,000 and smaller half carts for around $685. </li><li>With demand for <keyword id="6354691" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Air-travel">air travel</keyword> down significantly, many <keyword id="44023" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="airlines">airlines</keyword> and suppliers have decided to sell excess inventory — like pajamas, meals, and snacks — to bring in some extra cash. </li></ul>With air travel decimated and revenues in the gutter, airlines and their suppliers have been selling off unneeded bits of inventory<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-first-class-nut-mix-sale-coronavirus-2020-8"></a>, to bring in whatever extra cash they can find. Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific have turned to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/airlines-are-selling-in-flight-meals-for-people-not-flying-2020-9">selling in-flight meals</a> as standalone products. GNS Foods, a supplier to United Airlines, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-first-class-nut-mix-sale-coronavirus-2020-8">sold excess mixed nuts</a> to the public for bargain-bin prices. Qantas has outdone them all. After <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qantas-retires-boeing-747-fleet-after-50-years-of-flight-2020-7">retiring its fleet of Boeing 747s</a>, the Australian airline decided to sell off the <a href="https://wine.qantas.com/p/Qantas-747-Full-Bar-Cart---including-delivery/QA747FBC_V">bar carts</a> that once rode aboard the Queen of the Skies. And it didn't just offer the hunks of metal and plastic: It packed the trolleys full of booze, candy, and savory snacks, among other treats. In addition to 160 miniature wine bottles, two bottles of champagne, and various snacks, Qantas threw in four amenity kits, two first-class blankets, and four sets of pajamas with each purchase of a full cart. Smaller <a href="https://wine.qantas.com/p/Qantas-747-Half-Bar-Cart---including-delivery/QA747HBC_V">half carts</a> with less booze and fewer snacks were also available. <div type="image" title="Qantas Catering Carts image2" height="2500" width="2500" msid="78321578" hostid="261"></div>"These pre-loved carts served Qantas and our customers well during their world travels from London and Los Angeles to Singapore and Santiago, with each one averaging around 2,000 flights," the airline's executive manager of product and service, Phil Capps, said in a <a href="https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/media-releases/fully-stocked-qantas-747-bar-carts-set-to-fly-out-the-door/">press release</a>. "While we no longer have use for them, they still have life in them, especially for those with an appreciation for aviation collectibles and an eye for design."Qantas listed the full carts for just over $1,000 at current exchange rates, while the half carts commanded around $685. All 1,000 carts sold out within two hours, a Qantas spokesperson told Business Insider. Apparently, plenty of aviation fanatics are willing to spend top dollar to spruce up their home bars or make their flight simulators a bit more realistic, even if they showed the normal wear and tear you'd expect from a cart that took countless trips up and down the aisle.Qantas has also attempted to shore up its coffers by selling <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/fdcde4f1-5d1a-4614-a731-ade7fdb69fc3">business-class pajamas</a> along with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/qantas-antarctica-flights-sightseeing-coronavirus-2020-8">sightseeing flights that land right back where they started</a>. This article has been updated to include comments from Qantas.

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Airlines have stopped offering mixed nuts because of coronavirus, so one supplier is selling them directly to customers at huge discounts

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Airlines are selling in-flight meals for people who aren't flying but really miss eating on a plane

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Qantas sold 1,000 wine-stuffed bar carts from its retired 747 fleet in just 2 hours

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