WChou

Did someone say cajun chicken on corn salad?

AA 85
JFK-SFO
763
3:30PM-7:06PM (sked)
4:09PM-7:14PM (actual)
March 18, 2013
Lunch
PDB: Water, OJ, and "champagne"

Menu identical to FlyerBeek's flight in Post #244 except for the salad dressing. A poppy seed dressing was boarded instead of the pepper cream.

FitTraveler

SFO777
AA EXP, Delta PM, AS MVPG, EK Gold, TK Elite

THANKS for all your contributions.

This member always has excellent posts and great photos... and he does a whole lotta flyin' and a whole lotta airline food eatin'!

Kreative03

AA 2034
PHX-MIA
737
10:55p-5:55a ("overnight")
March 16
Refreshment. Or beverage. Or....yeah. Not listed.

PDB: Anything you wanted, surprisingly.

Nuts served with oatmeal cranberry cookie. I'll take worst combo for $500, Alec.

Maybe I'm insane, but i'd love for them to sub a breakfast snack on this route....

WChou

And a heckuva nice guy too. Met him on a SJC-ORD flight once and he is class act all around.

FlightNurse

The morning flight is MUCH better as well as the evening flight MIA-PHX. Two of the best AA meals I haven't had...

CMK10

That's disappointing. Compare that to what DL served me last year on an ANC-SLC flight, which incidentally is a mere 125 miles longer and also left at 1:12 AM:

sts603

AA's meals exceed DL EXCEPT on JFK-SFO/LAX flights. And on red-eyes, I could care less as I never eat it. On balance, I'll still take AA in a heart beat.

And that's a terrible looking meal - two pieces of cheap, processed ham?

SFO777

Thanks FltTraveler and WChou for your kind comments.
Hope to see you on another flight soon.

CMK10

That would actually be cheap processed TURKEY!

Still, I'll take a crappy sandwich over nothing, I'd rather have the option to have food.

pigx5

MAR 2013
JFK-LAX
Lunch

JY1024

Late March
Westbound midcon
Breakfast flight

- Cereal with fruit
- Breakfast quesadilla with eggs, cheddar, and turkey bacon; side of salsa, roasted potatoes, and smoked chicken sausage.

(Great, attentive flight attendant in F. Full PDB during boarding process, then drink orders for post-takeoff were taken right after doors closed at gate!)



Late March
Westbound midcon
Lunch flight

- Moroccan lemon chicken served with basmati rice, grilled asparagus, and mango chutney
- Steak salad served with pepper cream dressing and hard-boiled eggs

dcfrequentflyer

03.29.13, LAX-IAD (737, new seats, new livery!), 9:00 departure, breakfast

This is probably the WORST service I have encountered in AA first.

Typically, this route gets full transcon service. But on this route, thanks to lazy FAs:
1. No sparkling mine/mimosa tray (even though boarding was done 10 min. early, the FAs chose to chat in the galley about now boarding was done so early instead of do any PDBs)
2. I watched the two first class FAs take the menus and say "we don't need these!" and shove them in a cart instead of handing them out.
3. One FA, who I shall call "bird's nest" since that is what her hair and wrinkled uniform looked like, came around with a plastic bin from the cart and had us pick a bottle of water out of the bin.

We took off. As the FAs moved the carts in the galley around about 10,000 times, once we hit cruising altitude (not before) beverages were offered. The FA came up to me and called me by the WRONG first name (not last name) and then, when corrected, said "I'm not wearing my glasses" (instead of, say, "sorry" or "I apologize" or even "oops!")

Breakfast (remember, no menus) was described as either:
1. Oatmeal, or
2. "An egg/sausage THINGY"

The "thingy" turned out to be an egg/sausage panini. Before I tell you how it was, let me describe how breakfast was served. When reaching over me to give the tray to my seatmate, the FA picked the OJ off the tray...and then dumped it all over my seatmate (who, thankfully, was wearing her blanket). She then half-a**ed wiping it up; the result was sticky OJ all over the armrest throughout the flight.

The panini was gross. WAY too much bread, dry and chewy, no sauce. Oddly, our breakfast bread choice was a HALF-bagel (not heated).

Beverages were not refilled (on a transcon!); instead, the FAs gabbed in the galley. When I went to the bathroom, I noticed that one of them was reading one of the "for DUMMIES" book and thought to myself "well, that's about right." I did enjoy overhearing them chat about how they love breakfast flights "because they are so easy...no sundaes or any of that."

Cookies were served about an hour before landing...but no mints (even though the bag of mints was sitting on the galley counter).

As we left the plane, another passenger asked bird's nest "is this a new plane" (I presume because it had the new livery). Bird's next rolled her eyes and said "it's JUST a new PAINT JOB" and then proceeded to return to looking at her cell phone (not even thanking this man for flying) as the passengers deplaned.

Thumbs DOWN.

SFO777

Sounds like a senior crew mailing it in. I'd complain, but just state the facts.
You'll get a few 1,000 miles and maybe someone will get written up.

FlightNurse

I agree with SFO777 let AA know, it is one thing to come to FT and ..... about it, but write AA and let them know of the unprofessional attitude of the FA's. Since you had plenty of time to come on FT to write this, you can spend the same amount of time letting AA know. NOTHING will change unles people notify AA of this...

dcfrequentflyer

04.01.13, DCA-DFW (MD-80), 4:00p departure, snack

Hot nuts

Choice of:
1. Roast beef wrap
2. Buffalo chicken salad

I had the salad--just fine.

Cookies followed.

Excellent service.