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American Flagship Dining: Start Your Travel Dream Here
I want this:
Not this:
American Airlines Flagship First Class Dining promises to deliver gourmet-quality burgers on the way to a stellar first class experience in the air.
The New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF) celebrates the best of the culinary world including American’s very own Flagship Burger. Flagship First Dining is open to customers traveling in first class on a transcontinental or long-haul international route.
But what if that is your one and only flight of the year?
It’s the air needed for your trip of a lifetime and you do not fly often.
Is there any other way to enjoy this wonderful part of the First Class experience than buying First Class tickets?
You bet there is and we’re talking about that next, right here.
So what does that have to do with starting your travel dream?
This makes me want to fly American first class to try this burger.
Enjoying a delicious burger is a familiar and pleasant experience for many. Thinking of that enjoyment or disappointment that happens along the way on a long day of travel is easy to visualize. It can go a number of ways though and still come out wonderful. Happiness is a safe goal to shoot for and attain, not a lofty one, in the often unfamiliar world of international travel. This is why Lisa and I always begin such travel from our Orlando airport with a stop by Ruth Chris Steakhouse for burgers and a beer. I travel frequently. Lisa does not. It calms her. Burgers + travel = comfortable fit.
I’ve had burgers in a number of countries around the world. It’s a really silly and random reason to travel but it works. Don’t get me wrong. We do enjoy the local fare. This is different and part of a process that has taken us to many interesting places. More later on that as we turn the page on this blog and move along to some unique new topics. Stay tuned. Stay here briefly to see this:
[PRESS RELEASE]
As the official airline sponsor of NYCWFF, American was onsite all weekend celebrating with attendees in its Flagship-themed lounge and participated in the annual burger competition Friday. The popular rooftop party, where chefs and restaurants show off their burger skills, included more than 30 of NYC’s best burgers and featured American’s Flagship Burger.
“We knew we had something special with the Flagship Burger and were excited and proud to be the first airline to have its burger entered into the New York City Wine & Food Festival contest,” said Janelle Anderson, vice president of Marketing for American. “The Flagship Burger was created with local professional chefs and first launched when we opened our restaurant-style lounge at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) last year. We had fun being a part of the competition and know we put up a good fight.”
The NYCWFF burger competition has two awards — a people’s choice award and a winner picked by a panel of judges who participate in a blind tasting. This year’s judges included Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Geoffrey Zakarian, Rachael Ray and Andrew Zimmern. The people’s choice award is decided by the festival attendees who have the chance to taste all of the burgers participating and vote for their favorite.
Professional chefs designed the Flagship Burger using locally sourced ingredients, and the burger made its debut in May 2017 at Flagship First Dining at JFK. American celebrated the opening of its premium lounge and showed off the Flagship Burger to customers and media, including Travel + Leisure who called it the “best airport burger.”
The Flagship Burger is available in Flagship First Dining locations at JFK, Miami International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. Flagship First Dining is open to customers traveling in first class on a transcontinental or long-haul international route.
American continues to invest in the premium experience and plans to open the next Flagship Lounge and Flagship First Dining at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in 2019.
American Airlines Chef John Ogden presented NYCWFF attendees with the signature Flagship Burger.
The Flagship Burger presented at NYCWFF’s annual burger competition.
Photos: American Airlines