Originally Posted by
kettle1
it is simply outsourcing. Delta is selling its own flight kitchen and employees to a vendor.
quality? well that kind of depends on your views of outsourcing in-general.
Originally Posted by
RealHJ
And why does it only affect DL flights out of NRT and HND, but not out of NGO, KIX and FUK?
If food went back to the NW standards that would be fantastic, but everyone knows that Delta is extremely cheap and always cutting more and more corners, so that is not going to happen.
uh... because Delta can't teleport food from Tokyo to those other cities?
Originally Posted by
RealHJ
According to FAs (that was a year+ ago, though, not sure if it's still so anymore) it was done out of Atlanta even for flights departing from Japan, which is why they cautioned against the Japanese meal, which is rather soggy and not nearly as good as it used to be anymore (esp. now that it's all served on a single tray, with considerably cut down variety and amount vs. before). That may have been short lived, though, but supposedly so it was about a year or thereabout ago (if one is to trust FAs).
This isn't close to being remotely correct.
generally the only time out and back catering is done is on shorter flying. (think sacks only) it does have on some random flights but for the most part international C isn't going to be out and back catered.
NRT's vendor (and Delta when it was in-house) will generally always handle NRT-ATL. ATL-NRT will be catered by the vendor (GateGourmet) in Atlanta.
In most cases (at least in the US) GateGourmet will be the vendors. In some other cases it will be a smaller vendor, even in some cases a restaurant at the airport will be the catering vendor.
so for example, ATL-TLH will probably be out and back catered. ATL-AMS will be catered by the vendor in ATL, AMS-ATL will be catered by the vendor in AMS.
Originally Posted by
kettle1
FA's are the last source I go to for "news" in the airline business. So the FA's are reporting that meals are prepared in ATL for C? This is for the flt going and the return from ATL? How about flts from SEA, LAX, DTW, JFK and HNL to not only NRT, but other DL cities in Japan? How about HNL to FUK, NGO, KIX?
If true, I guess DL will now have fresher meals traveling From Japan to the USA.
its not true. In every city you listed they have a local vendor for catering. GateGourment or LSG in pretty much all of those cities FWIW.
not sure why anyone would believe that its even logistically possible to cater all of Delta's flights all around the world by a single kitchen in Atlanta. Not only that, but it would have to be one hell of a kitchen.