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Old Jul 6, 2014 | 5:13 pm
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Originally Posted by GYEWorldTraveler
I think this has to do with the MD90s not having ovens. They get the same lunch/dinner service as the regional jets. I've encountered this a few times and I believe it has to do with the ovens so they cannot serve hot food as you would find on a 737/757/767 route with dinner service. I could be mistaken but I haven't flown many MD90s except on non-meal flights (Florida-ATL mainly) but I thought I heard they had the ovens stripped to add more seats and reconfigure the galleys.
Interesting point. Not a good excuse to not come up with a different salad (maybe seafood or chilled beef, for example) or something else more "robust" for dinner, but this helps explain it.

For future reference, what other aircraft don't have ovens besides the MD90 and CRJs? MD88 as well? B717?
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