Originally Posted by
Diplomatico
Let me get this straight - you ate the meal provided in F and then also requested a snackbox? If that's what I'm reading, I'm not surprised the FA didn't want to get one for you....considering he needed to sell them to hungry passengers in Y who weren't provided with complimentary meals in the premium cabin.
I've never seen them totally run out of snackboxes... now, the fresh menu items, yeah.
In fact, they seem to be stocking less and less of several of the fresh items on my recent flights; they've been out of at least two of the items the last few times I've bought anything. (Most annoying was last week when, as one of the first E+ pax offered BoB, I discovered "some woman in the back" had bought all 10x turkey sandwiches they'd boarded and all the chicken wraps, too. The FA was very apologetic and seemed in shock that 1 pax bought "16 or 17 meals" and said apparently she was traveling with a large group.)
But they always seem to have some variety of boxes... which probably unlike the fresh choice items have a half life approaching the heat death of the universe.
Originally Posted by
SANUAFlyer
Regardless of whether or not someone has eaten the meal provided in First, I think it is quite bizarre that UA refuses to accept payment from ANYONE for one of the snackboxes onboard. If a passenger is willing to pay for the BOB... why shouldn't they be able to do so?
Yeah, that has always confused me.
And to agree with the OP, I do sometimes get hungry on those longer flights even with the meal service. I've never tried to buy additional food, but I do wish UA would offer a small pre-arrival snack in F (beyond the cookie or whatnot) on IAD-SFO, etc.