Which airline serves the best food?

Airline food has never been famous for being exactly gourmet - but these days some carriers are going all out to up their game .

Travel and Leisure recently asked its readers to assess the best from the worst in terms of mile-high meals.

Airline food from all over the world was rated to help the magazine refine its list of the best and this year's winning domestic airline in the US was Virgin America.

Richard Branson's airline is well know for its excellent customer service and travellers can even send each other drinks, meals and snacks via their 'send-to-seat delivery' package.

Others making the top five included Hawaiian Airlines, Jet Blue, Alaska Airlines and Sun Country.

Internationally Singapore Airlines beat out the competition to steal first place for food.

This famous carrier doesn't take any chances and even has its meals tested in a pressurised room to make sure the food tastes just as good in the air as it does on the ground.

Singapore Airlines was also ranked the best airline in the world recently, beating Emirates to the title.

International runners up included Emirates, Turkish Airlines, Cathay Pacific and All Nippon Airways.

However, maybe it's not surprising that airline food isn't always up to scratch given how many millions of passengers are travelling each year.

According to Travel and Leisure there are more than 500 dishes sampled before a new menu is released on Virgin Atlantic, 1.94 million bottles of wine were drunk on Swiss's economy class in 2012 and there are 2.36 million eggs used annually to make breakfast omelettes on board LAN airlines.