Originally Posted by
pdisme
I'm on SAN-DTW in FC right now and the guy in the row in front of me is apparently allergic to milk products so he's decided to have the dietary equivalent of a dykwia moment because he missed out on the chicken salad option, the FA started up front even though we're on an odd-numbered flight and he now only has the philly cheese steak choice available; apparently anything from the Y cabin has cheese on it too. The FA did offer to pick the cheese off the philly for him before it gets microwaved but he didn't want that.
If you have special dietary requirements that would, from my experience, very rarely be met by airplane food since most involve cheese or milk products of some sort, wouldn't you make other arrangements in advance and bring something rather than get stuck with the chips and salsa snack box from the Y cabin?
Anyway, just made me curious if DL lets people with food allergies put in special requests before a flight?
Is it possible the person had a special food request order in and it it didn't get catered. I was on a LAX/DTW flight in July in F and the lady sitting across from me told the FA when he was taking meal orders that she had a special meal request in. We were still at the gate with the door open when he started taking orders and said he would look into it and came back and told her he was seeing the request but catering didn't fill the request and she ended up ordering pasta (not sure what her meal request was for).
I also flew LHR/DTW last month in J and the lady in the seat beside me had put in a request for a hindu meal and that also didn't get catered but she did eat some of the food (she was on a paid J ticket not an OP UP so I could see why she was upset).
It is also possible on a domestic flight that the person could have gotten upgraded at the gate or SDC'd which would make it impossible to put in for a special meal request.