What airlines offer or used to offer birthday cakes?
Inspired by this question: two of the IATA Meal Codes, next to the usual vegetarian, bland, Kosher etc meals, are CAKE Birthday Cake and CLML Celebration Cake Meal.
On which airlines can or could I actually eat cake? The Wiki page above credits CAKE to Scandinavian Airlines, but as a former SAS frequent flyer, I've never heard of much less seen this supposed perk.
For avoidance of doubt, this is specifically about being able to preorder a "cake meal", having a slice included as a part of your regular meal doesn't cut it.
Best Answer
In this list from Amadeus, a company that sells travel booking software, I can see two cake listings:
- Air Austral - Birthday cake (BDML)
- Niki (no longer exists) - Niki special cake (HPML)
Scandinavian is listed there but with no cake listing. I couldn't find any cake listings on other systems either. I don't have the money to travel with Air Austral right now so I can't confirm if the option to book a cake exists, but if you were booking with a travel agent they would theoretically put a request in a SPML (special meal) which is a free text field regardless of airline.
Also according to this forum post from 2011, SAS used to have a cake option.
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