In its Centennial year, Delta is elevating its inflight dining with refreshed menus that bring seasonal flavors onboard. The airline’s latest enhancements showcase its commitment to delivering a premium culinary journey, especially in Delta One.
Delta’s international routes are getting a culinary upgrade. In May, Delta launched its first-ever flight to Sicily with new daily nonstop service between New York-JFK and Catania—the only direct connection between Catania and the U.S. The route’s unique menu highlights, like spinach and ricotta rotolo with cherry tomato sauce and fried basil leaves, are featured in Delta One.
In July, Delta One customers can also try dishes like handmade artichoke ravioli with panna sauce, roasted cherry tomatoes and Parmesan. While previously offered exclusively on flights out of Atlanta, positive customer feedback has driven the expansion of James Beard award-winning chef Mashama Bailey’s dishes to additional international and domestic routes. As such, customers in the mood for savory, tangy flavors should try Chef Bailey’s shrimp and grits, with spicy creole sauce and scallions, available on select flights.
Delta’s onboard wine program refreshes every three months. Earlier this year, Delta introduced a partnership with Taittinger, bringing more luxurious beverage options to Delta One customers.
This season’s wine program includes five varietals each in both domestic and international Delta One.
The airline also continues its successful partnership with women-owned and women-made wine brand Une Femme, bringing their first-ever still wine cans onboard, available in Delta Comfort and Delta Main. At the beginning of the year, Delta customers enjoyed an exclusive first taste of Une Femme’s new Chardonnay and Red Blend California wines before the products’ national retail launch in June. These wines join Une Femme’s flagship wine, The Betty (sparkling brut), available across all cabins and one of the most popular choices for customers.
The team also expanded its popular advanced meal selection option to Delta Comfort. As of May 2025, customers in international Delta Comfort can prepare for their upcoming journey by selecting meal options ahead of time, choosing from chipotle chicken or mushroom mezzaluna.
This option is now available to Delta Comfort customers on transoceanic and long-haul Hawaii flights with meal service, with a few exceptions. Customers can select their meal in advance beginning seven days prior to departure, either via an email link or on the Fly Delta app. Customers must make their selection within 24 hours before departure.
In response to customer desire for additional healthy meal options onboard, the airline began offering selections from Farmer’s Fridge for purchase on select flights for a limited time. After receiving positive customer and employee feedback, Delta has made the Farmer’s Fridge items the standard Fresh Flight Fuel option on flights over 1500 miles departing LAX. Customers can choose from a variety of chef-curated meals from either the morning or afternoon and evening assortments.
In other culinary news, Cheez-It baked snack crackers are making their return onboard this summer. The cheesy, crunchy complement to the airline’s iconic Biscoff cookie joins Garden Salsa SunChips to round out the snack lineup in Delta Main.
Now, even more customers can enjoy Shake Shack burger with the expansion to seven new cities in June and the addition of Detroit in early July. Delta First customers flying on routes more than 900 miles can enjoy Shake Shack’s Cheeseburger onboard, complete with 100 percent Angus beef, a toasted potato bun, ShackSauce and toppings, so customers can create their own ShackBurger. Along with the Cheeseburger, the meal features Crinkle Cut Potato Chips [inspired by Shake Shack’s Crinkle Cut Fries] and a rich dark chocolate brownie with crunch cocoa nibs and flaky seat salt, inspired by Shake Shack’s Shack Attack Concrete, and developed by the Shake Shack team specifically for this partnership.
The most recent expansion makes the burgers available in a total of 13 markets, including each of Delta’s hub cities.
To learn more, visit www.delta.com.
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