Originally Posted by
FlyingEgghead
There's a 6am flight to LAX, so the 4:30am opening makes sense. The FL itself closes at 11:15pm, so it also makes sense that they seat FFD until 10:30pm to give you time to order and eat.
Why do you say F inflight service on LAX-JFK is a joke? It's a decent hot meal. The only real differences now from pre-Covid are no PDB, meal service on one tray with plastic cups, and no sundaes. In any case, yes, you may be hungry again after arrival at JFK, and you should have no problem getting into FFD a little after 9pm.
Thanks thats good to hear, I just felt 1030 sounded a bit late with reduced flights and also the 430am i had no idea FFD actually opened that early. I am near certain I arrived once on the earlier red eye at 6am and was shut out for 2 hours until I could enter FFD. But hey if those hours are accurate then great.
At any rate, I said its a Joke for the following reasons:
The cold chicken app is disgraceful. Its disgusting.
Seems like the food options include a grain bowl all the time and even an additional cold item making only 2 hot items total
No sundae cart (as you said)
No cheese course (very important to me)
No salad
No actual appetizer how it was before (see gross cold chicken above)
No bread basket (possibly the most important thing on this list)
When I said service I was merely talking food sorry should have clarified more. And you add to my list the no glassware and single tray and its even worse (the single tray drives me nuts, i want to eat coursed out but then again there isnt a decent app and salad so I guess it doesnt matter)
I think the new menu at FFD sounds awesome and I am so excited about that. Thinking maybe better to just fly out at 8am and not have any issues as far as being rushed at FFD.