Originally Posted by
pogopossum
I guess I don't get it. I can't speak to international flights, but most of my domestic USA flights are not much more than four hours, a bit more with connections. Why should anyone be even concerned about or have to plan on a meal on board?
Apologies to the OP, but why is this even a concern?
Cheers,
Pogopossum
I'm vegetarian. UA doesn't serve veg meals in F in the US, or on flights to/from Canada.
I've been to almost every US state, flown close to a million miles to/from/around the US, and generally with few exceptions the food served in US airports is crap, and vegetarian food often difficult to find. Food in the lounges in the US tends to be junk food, processed crap, especially when compared to the LH lounges in Germany, which are frankly heavenly for a vegetarian.
When flying to/from/around the US I would far rather bring food which is decent then rely on finding something in the airport. (Canada is almost as bad; even those Peek Frean cookies commonly found in Relay shops in Canada contain animal fat, and for all that AC flyers gloat about how much better the MLLs are than US lounges, the food there has an extremely high sodium count, for the most part)