Originally Posted by
stellarlight
How about redeye transcon flights SFO/LAX - IAD/EWR etc that mostly depart after 9pm? Will the cold plates on these flights stay or disappear? Thanks!
The short answer is that there are no longer cold plates-just a snack basket and something before landing (a overly greasy muffin in my case). I had an FA tell me that they only load enough items to fill the snack baskets twice on the transcon red-eyes, so if you see something you want, shamelessly grab it

(and yes the snack basket was cleared out the last time I flew a red-eye transcon in F)