What’s the deal with the airline food, Lufthansa?

IF you find a tray of warmed-over chicken curry and a pocket-sized Greek salad at 35,000 feet an unappetizing prospect, you’re not alone. The world’s airlines don’t much like it, either.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG is exploring options including a sale for its catering arm LSG Sky Chefs, people with knowledge of the matter told Joyce Koh, Manuel Baigorri, Richard Weiss, and Aaron Kirchfeld of Bloomberg News this week. With HNA Group Co also in effect selling off half of its Gategroup Holding AG in-flight meal unit via a convertible bond issue to Temasek Holdings Pte and RRJ Capital, about half the global market in airline food has been put up for sale this year.