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Originally Posted by goodeats21
What happens when a flight is delayed to a new meal time designation. Is the original meal boarded / served or does is transition to a new service? Obviously, I mean when the delay is due to a late in-bound aircraft...not sitting on a tarmac or something.
I was on flight 350, F-cabin, ORD-PHL, which was supposed to serve Breakfast. The flight was delayed (I think we pushed back around 9:40? can't remember exactly) and we only had a white bag of snack mix. In thinking about it, was it because we actually boarded and departed after a normal time when breakfast would be served?
Just wondering how this works....thanks.
United serves meals based on the scheduled departure time, not the actual (delayed) departure time.
There have been some exceptions where the loaded meals have been adjusted to accomodate the delayed departure time. Such exceptions involve delays along the magnitude of 6 to 8 hours.
There's a great thread in the CO forum where an 8am LAX-EWR departure on CO was delayed to 10pm. In this case they were re-catered from breakfast to redeye service. I think there was maybe 30 people on a 753.