Originally Posted by
AwardBee
In all fairness AA has a pretty nice galley set-up in their 777-300ER's. There's a whole spread of fresh foods like fruit cups, cheese cups, pudding cups and sandwiches/wraps. They don't have these on their 777-200's IIRC.
But the dried snack basket has always been a staple on their long-hauls, including the 777-200's for as long as I've been flying AA (ok not that long, about 2 years). And the stocking of those baskets has always been inadequate. I've been trained, like the youngest child at the family table, to hoard them lest I should have to do without :\
Yes, only the yummy ones are in demand. AA should have figured out by now which ones are yucky.
As I understand it, the 777-200s will be refitted with snack bar areas. The current setup allows only for a basket positioned on a catering cart next to the lavatory.
The provisioning of these snack bars should be related to the length of the flight. The snack bar on our JFK-LHR flight about a year ago (see below) was fabulous but made no sense for a 7 hour night flight on which you haven't even digested dinner before you're being fed breakfast. In contrast, the 13.5 hour ORD-PEK flight had just the small basket of snacks. I felt hungry through much of the flight.
