The Vegetarian Useful resource Group Weblog

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by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD

When you journey by air, chances are high that you just’ll spend a while in an airport ready in your flight. When you’re like me, you carry vegan meals with you however generally, flight delays or being hungrier than you anticipated can immediate a seek for a vegan meal. How straightforward is it to seek out that meal? It varies from airport to airport. We checked the web sites of the ten busiest airports in the US in December 2025 to see how useful they’d be at figuring out airport eating that included vegan meals.

In keeping with the FAA, in 2024, the ten airports with the best variety of business plane enplanements (passengers boarding a flight) served greater than 350 million individuals. We went to every airport’s official website and spent a couple of minutes looking for institutions providing vegan meals.

1. Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport: The web site has a hyperlink to a 2020 article on vegetarian/vegan choices which has not been up to date however might be a beginning place. There may be additionally a drop-down menu that lists 22 locations with vegetarian/vegan choices. A number of of those are both juice bars or pizzerias (unlikely to supply vegan choices). There isn’t a indication of which locations serve vegan, versus vegan/vegetarian meals. You’d want to go to every institution to see what they provide.
2. Dallas-Fort Price Worldwide Airport: A seek for “vegan” on the web site resulted in 4 places with merchandising machines. There isn’t a indication on the web site as to which eating institutions have vegan choices.
3. Denver Worldwide Airport: A drop-down menu lists 14 locations with “vegetarian” choices, a few of that are juice bars. Some listed locations have hyperlinks to their menu; none that we checked indicated which menu gadgets have been vegetarian or vegan. You’d want to go to or individually contact probably eating websites to see what they provide.
4. Chicago O’Hare Worldwide Airport: A drop-down menu means that you can select eating websites with “vegetarian/vegan” choices. Many choices are seize and go markets or merchandising machines. Eating places have hyperlinks to menus (though some have been damaged). Menus don’t seem to point which gadgets are vegan/vegetarian. You’d want to go to or individually contact probably eating websites to see what they provide.
5. Los Angeles Worldwide Airport: No itemizing on web site for institutions with vegetarian/vegan choices. Some menus point out vegan gadgets, however you could evaluate every eating institution individually.
6. John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (New York): An interactive map permits a seek for “vegan” and resulted in a listing of twenty-two institutions, 15 of which seemed to be bakeries, markets, merchandising machines, or espresso outlets. There have been no hyperlinks to menus. You’d want to go to or individually contact probably eating websites to see what they provide.
7. Charlotte/Douglas Worldwide Airport: This web site means that you can choose a “vegan” filter which resulted in 17 locations, 10 of which have been espresso outlets, markets, or bakeries. There have been no hyperlinks to menus. You’d want to go to or individually contact probably eating websites to see what they provide.

8. Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (Las Vegas): The web site doesn’t permit you to seek for vegan (or vegetarian) eating places. You’ll be able to see a listing of all eating institutions, not less than a few of which have hyperlinks to menus. Useful if in case you have lots of time to individually examine restaurant web sites or in case you’re acquainted with chains which have vegan choices.
9. Orlando Worldwide Airport: A seek for “vegan” resulted in a single itemizing for a juice bar.
10. Miami Worldwide Airport: A seek for “vegan” had one outcome which listed a few vegan choices on their menu. There was additionally a tab for “vegetarian/vegan” which had 10 outcomes, most of which regarded like doable locations to get a meal. Most had hyperlinks to menus though just one indicated vegan choices.

If you realize you’re going to be searching for a meal in an airport, some advance planning could assist except you could have a protracted lay-over and need to try eating places as you stroll across the airport. Forward of time, you’ll be able to see which eating places are in your terminal and call doable venues and ask what they provide vegans. In any other case, chances are you’ll get fortunate and discover a place like Moe’s Southwest Grill within the Dallas Love Discipline Airport which allowed us to customise a Burrito Bowl which was ready in entrance of us and the place the employees have been educated about which gadgets have been vegan.

Lastly,  on a aspect notice, BWI airport (Baltimore/DC) has one nice restaurant with gadgets clearly marked vegan: https://www.silverdiner.com/bwi

To learn extra about meals for journey see:

Vegan Meals for the Airplane

Price range-Pleasant Airport Suggestions for the Aware Vegan Traveler