This thread is to report on and discuss in-flight food and beverage for all Air Canada flights in Business Class (including Premium Long-Haul, Signature Service, and rouge) within North America. From a meal perspective, “North America” includes “Sun” destinations such as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Post your menus, photos, questions, and opinions in this thread. To the extent updates are needed to these initial posts, please advise @
Adam Smith via PM. If you post a menu and/or photos, please add a listing to the wiki in the format detailed in the wiki.
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In order to keep information relevant it is expected that this thread (and its companions on other locations/classes of service) will be periodically refreshed – for example, at the end of 2021, this thread may be closed, and a new thread on the same topic (with the same information from the first few posts) may be created.
COVID NOTE: For most of the pandemic, AC has been offering significantly reduced meal service. As the world starts to normalize, AC is also normalizing its meal service. The posts below largely describe the normal, pre-COVID world, to which we are slowly returning.
However, for the time being, there may be inconsistencies. Please feel free to discuss these inconsistencies and current service levels here.
Overview of AC North America J meal service
AC offers several different types of food and beverage service on its intra-North America flights:
- Premium Long-Haul (“PLH”) service is offered on select routes deemed premium by AC (YVR/YYC/YEG-YYZ/YUL/YOW, YVR/YYC-EWR, YYZ/YUL-SFO/LAX)
- Signature Service is offered on widebody aircraft on PLH routes
- A basic service is offered on all other routes
Breakfast is served on flights departing before 10AM, as well as red-eyes. Lunch/dinner is served on all other departures.
Full meals are served on flights above 2 hours block time. On shorter flights, a snack is served rather than a full meal.
Meal selections change frequently, typically every month, although many items have been in the rotation for years and reappear over and over again.
The different levels of service are detailed in the following posts:
- Basic North America J meal service
- PLH service
- Signature service
- Meal service on shorter flights
- Snack basket
- Beverages