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Old Oct 9, 2017, 2:42 am
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Orange.Man
 
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK
EZY running out of certain items is not unusual, it typically starts on the late afternoon flights - although I recently had no bacon butty on an AMS morning flight from LPL.
It's got nothing to do with the time of the day with regards to the flights on EZY. Every time a new crew comes on board a plane at their home base they will be re-catered the following
  • Crew Food
  • Crew Water & Hot Drinks
  • Passenger Cold Sandwiches (& salads)
  • Passenger Hot Sandwiches

Load factors depend on number of sectors the crew are operating & length. Something like a Just a Jersey, you'll get maybe 15 sandwiches in total, whereas an Athens, you'll be looking at around 20-40 of each sandwich. The only exception to new food on an aircraft will be the first flight out of a night stop destination. For the AM Crew, they will not serve any sandwiches on their flight into their home base, for the PM crew it depends what is handed over to them by the disembarking crew, if they've got nothing left.... then the outbound crew can't sell anything.

The bars on board are all day bars. They will be loaded on for the aircraft's first flight of the day out of it's home base. Obviously the AM Night stopping crew will operate the previous days bar on the 1st sector into their home base and then be given a new bar on arrival by the caterers (if they turn up)
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