Originally Posted by
danib62
I don't really have time to make it down to Union Station before my trip and I don't expect it to make a difference. The agent actually took down my info and called me back. Seemed that she had to check in with a bunch of different departments. She confirmed that kosher is an option with contemporary dining and a note was added to the manifest manually to add meals for me. It's just crazy that they switched to contemporary dining over a year ago and they still haven't ironed out how special meal requests work.
A lot about the kosher meal request process is crazy, although this is definitely a big step backwards.
(For instance: If you are planning to use a 12-hour upgrade coupon on Acela, there is simply no way to request a kosher meal, since kosher meals need to be requested at least 24 hours in advance, but kosher meals can't be requested in business class, even in anticipation of an upgrade to first. I was watching an agent punch in my meal request at NYP, and everything appeared fine until he submitted it, and the system threw up an error message and wouldn't accept it.)
Good luck.