The Greatest Airline Meals of the 20th Century

The Greatest Airline Meals of the 20th Century
A Bill Oakley Culinary Event
Presented by Alaska Airlines

📅 Saturday, November 14, 2026
🕢 Dinner 7:30 PM · After-Party 10:00 PM – 12:30 AM
📍 The Museum of Flight, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA 98108

For one night only, we’re bringing back the glamour of the Jet Set era, when airline food was extravagant, ambitious, and sometimes completely unhinged!

The Greatest Airline Meals of the 20th Century is a seven-course seated dinner that takes you back in time, through food, from the earliest passenger flights of 1919 to the final Concorde service in 2003. Each course is drawn from real vintage airline menus, prepared with modern technique but grounded in original recipes, photographs and menu archives.

From the rickety, unpressurized passenger planes of the Depression era to the glamorous 747s of the 1970s, when Pan Am and TWA competed for jet-set travelers, food (the fancier the better) was a critical way to win business. At this event, you’ll step back in time and taste it for yourself.

We’ll be dining in the glamorous Great Gallery of The Museum of Flight, surrounded by legendary aircraft, with every course brought back to life by the fantastic chefs of McCormick & Schmick’s.

Yes, lobster and caviar will be served (among other delights).

Yes, there will be cocktails and vintage airline uniforms (and many other surprises).

Elegant and/or vintage dress encouraged!

Your Host
Bill Oakley, the Emmy-winning comedy writer and former showrunner of The Simpsons, will host the evening with a funny slideshow and commentary on a century of dining in the skies. Bill is also a food personality who appears regularly on the History Channel’s The Food That Built America, and The Greatest Airline Meals is his latest culinary storytelling project, following his nationwide series of American Culinary Curiosity Dinners. The first edition, at Portland International Airport earlier this year, sold out in about 32 hours.

Two Ways to Fly

✈️ Dinner Ticket, $220
The seven-course Greatest Airline Meals dinner in The Museum of Flight’s Great Gallery, two hosted drinks of your choice (beer, wine, or cocktails), and Bill Oakley’s slideshow presentation.

✈️ Dinner + After-Party Ticket, $270
Everything in the Dinner Ticket, plus the After-Party in the Red Barn, Boeing’s original factory building, from 10:00 PM to 12:30 AM, with two more hosted drinks of your choice.

Additional drinks are available for purchase throughout the evening.

Please Note
IMPORTANT: Due to the custom nature of this meal, special orders and food allergies cannot be accommodated, sorry.
Gratuity is included in the ticket price.
Guests must be 21 years of age or older.
All sales are final. No refunds.

Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime event!

Thank You
This flight is made possible by our presenting sponsor Alaska Airlines, with coffee service courtesy of our flagship partner Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Thank you both for helping us take to the skies in style!

Hosted at The Museum of Flight · Catered by McCormick & Schmick’s
Poster art by Donald Scott Masterson