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Old May 13, 2008, 4:31 pm
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FAQ: First & Business Class Meal Offerings (Domestic and Int'l with pictures)

I see the same questions popping up again and again, so I've decided to create a master meal offerings thread with pictures. This thread will provide helpful information on what kind of meals F & C passengers will receive for both domestic and international flights of various lengths. This is all the tricks in UA's bag. There will be variations, but this is the core of all meals and you should expect the following:

Domestic and North America (Region 1) First Class on mainline

(2 cabin first and 3 cabin domestic first essentially have the same offerings, with 3 cabin first class using better china)

Shorthaul at all times

For flights under 800 miles and Business1 ORD-MSP [with the exception of Business1 non-stop flights between Chicago O’Hare (ORD) and: Boston Logan (BOS), Washington D.C. Reagan (DCA), Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW), Newark (EWR), New York LaGuardia (LGA), or Philadelphia (PHL). ]
Routes include but not limited to: LAX-SFO, ORD-MSP, DEN-MSP, ORD-STL, DEN-STL etc
Beverage service with prepackaged pretzels/nuts.
For flights between SFO and SEA during lunch and dinner times:
Cheese plate
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For Business1 non-stop flights between Chicago O’Hare (ORD) and: Boston Logan (BOS), Washington D.C. Reagan (DCA), Dallas/Ft. Worth (DFW), Newark (EWR), New York LaGuardia (LGA), or Philadelphia (PHL) during lunch and dinner times ONLY:
Snack plate: cold deli with fruit and cheese
Note: No meals will be offered during breakfast times.
Flights between 801-1200 miles during breakfast times:
Routes include but no limited to: LAX-DEN, SFO-DEN, etc
Breakfast breads: bagel , croissant, bear claws, danish, and or muffins.

A fruit appetizer

An egg dish: omelette, frittata, quiche, etc

or (usually only the egg dish is provided, but with the occasional choice of)

Fruit plate (No yogurt or cereal)

For Both Standard Midcon AND Transcon


For all flights between 1200 and 2000 miles during breakfast hours (i.e. 6am-10:00AM): Routes include but not limited to: LAX-ORD, SFO-ORD, DEN-LGA, DEN-IAD, DEN-BOS, etc
Breakfast breads: bagel, croissant, bear claws, danish, and or muffins.

A fruit appetizer

An egg dish: omelette, frittata, quiche, etc

or

Fruit plate (No yogurt or cereal)

For all flights 1200+ miles during lunch hours (i.e. 10:30-2:30PM):
A salad entree topped with cold meats (shrimp, chicken, beef)

or

A warm sandwich with potatoes or with soup

or

A wrap with potatoes

or

A cold seafood plate with cheese, fruit, and crudite

Both may or may not come with soup

and dessert:

brownies/chocolate cake with cherries

carrot cake

or

or chocolate chip cookie
For all flights between 1200+ miles during dinner hours (i.e. 3:30PM-7:30PM)
Dinner bread

Appetizer salads
Dressing: Asian ginger, caesar, ranch, thousand island, or Javanese

Entree choices:
Beef (short ribs, tenderloin, etc)
with potatoes and vegetables (occasional potato or rice cakes)

or

chicken (oven roasted)
with potatoes and vegetables

or

Pasta (tortellini, lasagna, pasta trio, etc)

or

Fish (mahi-mahi, halibut, salmon etc)
with rice/starch and vegetables.

Dessert:
Piece of cake: eli's cirtus, eli's caramel, eli's chocolate etc

or

brownies

or chocolate chip cookie
For late night/red eye flights of 1200+miles (i.e. past 7:40PM)
Snack plate: cold deli with fruit and cheese

For an alternate meal option, call UA and pre-order the low fat meal or high fiber and you will receive:

Cold chicken breast deli plate with pasta (with or without salad)

or

Beans with pasta

or

Hot chicken breast with rice

served with a dinner roll and snackwell or vegan cookies.
For flights on 737s with no ovens:
[Indent]A wrap or salad with meat similar to those buy on board boxes.

Prepackaged cheese

chocolate


p.s. flights First Class


For p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) during breakfast times (i.e. 6AM-9:59AM)
For p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) during lunch and dinner times (i.e. 10:00AM-7:00PM)
Bread basket

Appetizer (smoked salmon, warm tarts, etc)

Appetizer salad

Charlie Trotter Entrees:
Beef, chicken, pork, or fish
with vegetables and potatoes

or

Pasta with grilled vegetables (i.e. Capellini galette)

or

Sauteed seafood (i.e. scallops and shrimps)
over noodles and bak choy.

Dessert

Fresh fruit with sour cream dip (i.e. strawberries)

and/or

Ice cream sundae with toppings

and/or

cheese plate

prior to arrival

A chocolate truffle
For redeye p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) (i.e. 8PM and beyond):
Fruit and cheese plate

or

Cold deli chicken or seafood plate

For an alternate meal option, call UA and pre-order the low fat meal and you will receive:

Cold chicken breast deli plate with pasta

or

Beans with pasta

served with a dinner roll and snackwell cookies.
p.s. flights Business Class

For p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) during breakfast times (i.e. 6AM-9:59AM)
Breakfast breads: bagel, croissant, bear claws, danish, and or muffins.

A fruit appetizer

Pancake/French Toast with Meat

An egg dish: omelette, frittata, quiche, etc

or

Fruit and cereal plate

prior to arrival [NOTE: The prior to arrival meal has been temporarily cut. It might come back, or might not, but don't expect it]

snack plate with bread

fruit and cheese

or

chicken/seafood cold deli plate

and knotts berry farm prepackaged cookies[/URL]
For p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) during lunch and dinner times (i.e. 10:00AM-7:00PM)
Bread basket

Appetizer (shrimps with asparagus, parma ham, etc)

Appetizer salad

Charlie Trotter Entrees:
Beef, chicken, pork, or fish
with vegetables and potatoes

or

Pasta with grilled vegetables (i.e. Capellini galette)

or

Sauteed seafood (i.e. scallops and shrimps)
over noodles and bak choy.


Dessert

Sundae with sauce, fruit, whipped cream, and nuts

and/or

chocolat chip cookies

For redeye p.s. flights (LAX/SFO-JFK) (i.e. 8PM and beyond):
Fruit and cheese plate

or

Cold deli chicken or seafood plate

For an alternate meal option, call UA and pre-order the low fat meal or high fiber and you will receive:

Cold chicken breast deli plate with pasta (with or without salad)

or

Beans with pasta

or

Hot chicken breast with rice

served with a dinner roll and snackwell or vegan cookies.

Hawaii First Class


For nonstop flights to the islands of Hawaii during breakfast hours (i.e. 6AM-9:30AM):
Breakfast breads: bagel, croissant, bear claws, danish, and or muffins.

A fruit appetizer

An egg dish: omelette, frittata, quiche, etc

or

Fruit plate
For nonstop flights to the islands of Hawaii during lunch and dinner hours (i.e. 10AM-7PM):
Breadbasket

Enhanced appetizer salad with heart of palms, artichoke hearts, or tropical fruit

Entree

Trader Vic's seafood entrees with island flavors (i.e. prawns, mahi mahi with papaya sauce, etc)
with rice/noodles and vegetables

or

Trader Vic's Poultry entrees with island flavors (i.e. tenderloin, teriyaki chicken etc) with potatoes/rice and vegetables

Dessert:
Piece of cake: eli's cirtus, eli's caramel, eli's chocolate etc

or

brownies

or chocolate chip cookie
For nonstop redeye flights to the islands of Hawaii (i.e. 7:30PM and beyond):
Fruit and cheese plate

or

Cold deli chicken or seafood plate or chicken katsu

Low Fat Meal


For midcon and transcon breakfast:
For transcon lunch and dinner:

International First Class

All international flights with 3000+ miles at all times (note, int'l flights under 3000 miles may have simplified service including smaller/cold appetizers and a slice of cake instead of a Sundae i.e. NRT-ICN, IAD-FRA/AMS, etc)

For Breakfast
Assorted Breads

To begin:

Fresh fruit plate

Cold cereal and or yogurt

An egg dish with meats

or

French toast with fruit compote and meats

or

Continental Breakfast

Prior to Arrival

Hot snack: Sandwiches

For Asian routes: dim sum and satay

To finish: chocolates
Lunch and Dinner Flights:
Sampling of warm appetizers

Enhanced salad (with toppings if appetizer is not available)

Soup (tomato, cream of mushroom, etc)

Entree choices:

Beef (filet mignon, etc), chicken, pork
potatoes and veggies

or

Seafood dish (fish with lobster sauce, prawns and scallops, etc)
with rice or potatoes

or

Pasta with sauteed/grilled vegetables

or

Regional offerings such as flights out of NRT:
Washoku zen selection
Appetizer of grilled pepper shrimp, grilled duck with burdock-flavored miso, scallop with egg, stuffed shiitake mushroom, simmered vegetable sushi roll, poached shrimp and snapper marinated in rice vinegar and buckwheat soba noodles with simmered eggplant
A main course of marinated broiled sea bass, simmered shimeji mushroom, water chestnut, crab leg, ginkgo nut and gluten flower served with steamed rice and Japanese pickled vegetables
Served with green tea


Dessert

Fresh fruit with sour cream dip

Ice cream sundae with toppings

cheese plate

Prior to arrival or to Start

An egg dish: omelette, crepe, etc with fruit.

or

fruit and yogurt

or

for longer flights: a warm sandwich with potatoes

or

Regional offerings such as flights out of LHR:
Afternoon tea service with assorted sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and preserves, and your choice of tea.

During the flight: a variety of candies, cookies, sandwiches, and ramen noodles available upon request.

International Business Class

All international flights with 3000+ miles at all times (note, int'l flights under 3000 miles may have simplified service including small/simplified or no appetizer and a slice of cake instead of a ice cream and cheese plate i.e. NRT-ICN, IAD-FRA/AMS, etc)
Cold appetizers (i.e. crab salad, sushi, smoked salmon, etc)

Simple appetizer salad

Entree choices:

Beef (filet mignon, etc), chicken, pork
potatoes and veggies

or

Seafood dish (fish with lobster sauce, prawns and scallops, etc)
with rice or potatoes

or

Pasta with sauteed/grilled vegetables

or

Regional offerings such as flights out of NRT:
Washoku zen selection
Appetizer of grilled pepper shrimp, grilled duck with burdock-flavored miso, scallop with egg, stuffed shiitake mushroom, simmered vegetable sushi roll, poached shrimp and snapper marinated in rice vinegar and buckwheat soba noodles with simmered eggplant
A main course of marinated broiled sea bass, simmered shimeji mushroom, water chestnut, crab leg, ginkgo nut and gluten flower served with steamed rice and Japanese pickled vegetables
Served with green tea


Dessert

Ice cream

cheese plate

Prior to arrival or to Start

An egg dish: omelette, crepe, etc with fruit

or

fruit and yogurt

or

for longer flights: a warm sandwich with potatoes

or

Regional offerings such as flights out of LHR:
Afternoon tea service with assorted sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and preserves, and your choice of tea.

During the flight: a variety of candies, cookies, sandwiches, and ramen noodles available upon request.

That's all I can think of at this point....feel free to add...

p.s. the distances and times are my own approximation...I think it's close enough.

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Old May 13, 2008, 4:57 pm
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I don't think your classifications are right. We flew YVR-SFO (800 miles) during dinner time yesterday, and got prepackaged snack mix only.
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Thanks for posting.
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Old May 13, 2008, 5:04 pm
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Wow, what a resource! Thanks for putting it together BlissWorld, very impressive!^
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Wow, looking through this thread just made me really hungry!

Overall, a pretty nice job laying everything out with attached pics. I know this is a bit technical but a few links for F show pictures of C meals. I know sometimes the food is the same, just the china is different.

Also, for SFO-SEA-SFO flights, the cheese plate is only served during the dinner window. Of course, VX offers a full meal service but that's another thread.
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Old May 13, 2008, 5:15 pm
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Originally Posted by N334AA
...for SFO-SEA-SFO flights, the cheese plate is only served during the dinner window...
Thanks. I'll keep updating. I know I probably have made a couple of mistakes...so please do let me know.
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thanks for putting this together^ I just did SFO-KOA at breakfast time and KOA-SFO lunch/dinner, and this was spot on!
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Looks real good....thanks for the information.

The only update I would give is on the IAD-TUS flight in F at dinner time. At 1933 miles, you get one of those plastic trays (like a hungry man's meal) with a wrap of some sort, small wilted salad, packaged cheese, with a couple of crackers, and the "dessert" is a couple of square chocolates.

The worst food for a dinner flight (in F) of that length in the UA system...period!!!
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Originally Posted by BongoVIP
Looks real good....thanks for the information.

The only update I would give is on the IAD-TUS flight in F at dinner time. At 1933 miles, you get one of those plastic trays (like a hungry man's meal) with a wrap of some sort, small wilted salad, packaged cheese, with a couple of crackers, and the "dessert" is a couple of square chocolates.

The worst food for a dinner flight (in F) of that length in the UA system...period!!!
I hope this was on an ex-Shuttle plane, if not
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Old May 13, 2008, 5:31 pm
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Originally Posted by BongoVIP
Looks real good....thanks for the information.

The only update I would give is on the IAD-TUS flight in F at dinner time. At 1933 miles, you get one of those plastic trays (like a hungry man's meal) with a wrap of some sort, small wilted salad, packaged cheese, with a couple of crackers, and the "dessert" is a couple of square chocolates.

The worst food for a dinner flight (in F) of that length in the UA system...period!!!
Was that on the 737 with no ovens? I forgot about the food on 737 with no ovens....I think you get exactly what you just described! Let me update.
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Old May 13, 2008, 5:54 pm
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This is great - why not post it in the Wiki instead/also?
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Originally Posted by N334AA
Also, for SFO-SEA-SFO flights, the cheese plate is only served during the dinner window.
I was actually told that it's during lunch AND dinner hours, which has also been my experience.
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Originally Posted by BlissWorld
Was that on the 737 with no ovens? I forgot about the food on 737 with no ovens....I think you get exactly what you just described! Let me update.
This was actually on a A-319 with ovens, etc.
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GREAT WORK ^^^^

Better than the .bomb description !
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Thanks BlissWorld for this great post. Are you looking for help in gathering photos for this post?

This also provides a reference for those who ask me about the meals on UA now I have a resource to direct them to. ^^^
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