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Milo Boyd

Ryanair flight attendant always avoids this one item from the food trolley

A Ryanair flight attendant has shared their top tips for ordering from the airline's famous food trolley.

More so than other airlines, the bringing round of the refreshment cart and the sale of scratch tickets is a major part of the Ryanair experience.

Cabin crew working for the Irish company are heavily incentivised to sell as much as they can from the cart and may earn around £300 a month for doing so, one member of staff told The Mirror.

One piece of advice they offered for those perusing the snack menu is to go for the hot drinks.

"The coffee and hot chocolate are actually quite good, particularly the coffee," they said.

The flight attendant said the coffee onboard was good (Alamy Stock Photo)

"The coffee is proper filter stuff. I'd drink it."

One item that they pass on however, is the Twix.

"Honestly, the price of a bar of chocolate onboard," they continued. "It's £2.25 for a Twix. I wouldn't go for that. I would bring my own with me."

The price of a 75g Twix from Tesco is 80p, meaning the cost on a Ryanair flight is almost three times more.

Another flight attendant told the Mirror how it can be very stressful attempting to get everyone fed and watered during a short haul flight.

"A few weeks ago I did a flight in the evening," they explained.

"Ryanair stocks the bar first thing in the morning, so on lates you have whatever is left. The bar was empty when I got in board.

They said they avoided buying a Twix (DAILY MIRROR)

"It was a five hour flight to Tenerife. I spoke to this woman and she wanted food for her kids, I apologised and told her there's no food, there's not much I can do about it.

"But for her it became my fault. She said I'm 'useless', it's 'my fault' her kids are going to stave tonight. I 'should be ashamed'. The amount of times I have wanted to tell passengers exactly what I think of them...."

Other members of Ryanair staff have helped to lift the lid on some of the smaller details onboard the budget airline's planes.

On occasions when passenger behaviour seems to be getting out of hand - often on flights back from Greek and Spanish party islands - staff have a trick up their sleeve.

A Ryanair pilot explained: "Sometimes if the passengers are being annoying then the cabin crew ask us to turn the seatbelt signs on as if there's turbulence, just so everyone sits down and the cabin crew can relax."

A flight attendant added: "We refer to it as our artificial turbulence, and yes it happens."

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