Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
You have to give kudos to AA for serving a snack, which is basically a full meal service, outside of lunch and dinner times. It certainly beats a "snack basket" option (a la USAir, a potential bidder for AA).
Absolutely. I've also seen "Brunch" listed on the departure screens for meal service, which winds up being the same as lunch. In practice, Lunch, Brunch and Snack are all the same meals (at least on midcons).
There's also a "Continental Breakfast" departure monitor designation that makes appearances on the ORD-DFW, ORD-LGA, ORD-EWR, ORD-DCA, ORD-RDU and DFW-DEN flights as examples. Basically it's just one meal option vs. two of the normal breakfast rotation on AA (omelette, cereal, oatmeal, etc.) plus yogurt. This can vary depending on direction of travel (block times are right on the cusp of being in or out of meal windows) e.g. BOS-ORD is "Breakfast" while ORD-BOS is "Continental Breakfast".
Originally Posted by
sts603
The worst are the ex-LAX transcons that leave at nearly 10 a.m., land at JFK after 6 p.m. and serve breakfast??
Particularly when the ex-LAX (and SFO) midcons that depart at 9:30AM for DFW or ORD serve lunch.