Originally Posted by LeisureFirst

Flying BA117 eleven days ago in F, I noticed a rather unwelcome menu change. The main menu consisted entirely of breakfast dishes, there was just one item on the "bistro" section (pumpkin tortellini, iirc) , and then there was afternoon tea was served about 10am New York time, an hour before landing.

I've flown that flight in F at least twice before and my recollection is a mixture of breakfast and lunch dishes, although I do recall a disappointing lack of proper puddings even on the last occasion. It seems very odd to go straight from breakfast to afternoon tea, and as most people on that flight will have been awake for around four hours by the time the first meal is served (and may well have had quite a few plates of eggs benedict in the CCR) I would have thought some lunch options would be welcomed by most.

They also had a rather delicious dessert wine, which I chose to have when they brought round the nuts after take-off as I couldn't see when else I was going to fit it in. To top things off, they didn't offer me afternoon tea apparently because I'd eaten a bistro dish after my snooze shortly before afternoon tea was served, although they did correct this with a very hurried serving of tea during the descent.

As for new F: not bad but too dark. The new cabin windows look nice, but you lose the wonderful sense of being flooded with daylight that you had in the old F 747 nose.