Originally Posted by
greenpau
It’s not even that the wine flights are gone these days — there’s often very little wine at all available on the return flights to the US. For the third flight transatlantic in a row CDG-SFO, there was only one bottle of white wine available that was passed across the aisle and shared sparingly, and no vodka or buffalo trace at all. They now round-trip cater the alcohol from the US to save money, hence they are frequently out of items on the return.
Catering has become a mess in terms of provisioning, domestically and internationally, all in the name of saving $.
I echo these same comments. On my flight a few days ago SIN-SFO there were 2 bottles of champagne on the entire flight! For a flagship route, how can UA claim to be a world class airline with this level of inventory? Also no sparkling wine was offered as pre-departure drink (no great loss since it is plonk anyways).
When somebody asked, they poured a mini bottle from economy class.
Since UA is now round-trip catering alcohol from the US, they should lock down half of the inventory to be reserved for the return flight. Or better still, go back to the original method of fully restocking in the outport city. This cost saving is sabotage to the Polaris product.