Two lenghty E145 flights last week. First one, a morning flight YYZ-IAH with a scheduled flight time of three hours fifty five minutes...OUCH! We left at 7:35 AM and our breakfast snack consisted of a package of eight quarter sized slices of beef salami, two crackers, a tub of parmesan cream cheese, small Hershey bar, and a package of dried fruit chews. Would've been better if we had been offered a small individual box of cereal and a small container of milk at that hour of the day instead, and I'm guessing the cost for the cereal bought in quantities would be about equal to what we had, without much additional weight on the aircraft if that was subsituted for the snacks.

Return flight on the same route with the same aircraft type, was scheduled for three hours eight minutes during the dinner hour, and we got the slightly larger turkey or ham sub with mayo, Hershey bar, and fruit snacks.

No more mainline aircraft on the YYZ-IAH route, after having at least two B737's in addition to the ERJ's a few months ago.

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