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The Situation
It would be really nice to know which routes ex-SEA was going to serve trash meals on. All of my meals ex-SEA are sandwich/salad including SEA-JFK, with a bag of chips and prepackaged cookie, but then I am on SEA-SFO in C+ and I see F gets two really nice options. If there was some consistency, I might actually buy F rather than rely on free upgrades to C+ and F.
If I were to guess, anything that's not a hub-to-hub route - I remember them serving a really nice meal on SEA-LAX in F a couple years ago and there was marketing all over the tray about sourcing from local vendors (e.g. Pike Place Market, Ivars, Beecher's Cheese) and there was even a macaron and clam chowder on the tray. That's all gone this year (I got a "vegetable salad" with packaged cookie and bread roll) and they're now running 8-10 dailies on SEA-LAX with 737s, so that's a pretty close second to AS. SEA-LAX is an interesting case because just 6 years ago it was 3 dailies on RJs. But DL's market share on almost all other routes ex-SEA that are non-hub pales in comparison to AS still.