Originally Posted by
pagotto
Huh?
It's like a sub-600 mile flight. What would you get on CO in F? Certainly not a sandwich. If anything, UA's product has improved - it used to be just the premium snack mix on these flights less than 750 miles (ok, during the Business One days it was a meal...) Now, at least it's the snack basket with chips, cliff bars, nuts, etc.
I wish CO would adopt such a basket - I recall an IAH-SLC flight a few months ago (at over 3 hours) where all they served in F was a bag of pretzels.
The CO 5pm today from ORD to EWR (712 miles) gets:
First Class: Light meal featuring a hot sandwich
Main Cabin: Assorted packaged snacks available for purchase
Not a lot farther than ORD-DCA (612 miles).
The ORD to EWR distance would still be a bag of potato chips in F on UA. The UA cut off is 760 miles.
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I might add that this flight violates CO's meal policy:
Continental Flight 281
Chicago, IL (ORD - O'Hare) to
New York/Newark, NJ (EWR - Liberty)
Sun., Apr 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Boeing 737-800
Food
First Class: Light meal featuring a hot sandwich
Main Cabin: Assorted packaged snacks available for purchase
Since the cut off time is 7pm. But I guess ORD-EWR is hi rev - so CO breaks the rules.
Originally Posted by
pagotto
Huh?
I wish CO would adopt such a basket - I recall an IAH-SLC flight a few months ago (at over 3 hours) where all they served in F was a bag of pretzels.
IAH-SLC is a low rev route for CO. Also it has lots of non-rev'ers since CO has a big call center near SLC.