The way for AA to get it's 'premium' customers what they want is to ask them prior to boarding, either at check-in or earlier. How hard can this be? If I paid to sit in J or F and got offered 'whatever was left' I'd be mighty upset. LGW-DFW last week they loaded 3 pastas for a full BC cabin of 35 (at least that's better than the 1 that andrzej reported on a previous flight). I ended up with the 'vegetable plate' - some wild rice, three slices of way-overcooked carrot and something swimming in a sort of cream sauce, which I accept was leeks, based on what the menu said..... a menu that the FA had to borrow from me as they didn't have enough for the people at the back of the cabin.

What really made the meal service a pleasure was when, having finished eating, the FA approached from behind and dumped a half-eaten bowl of nuts on my tray. As I sat there for a few moments, my mind reeling as I tried to figure out what on earth I was supposed to do with this, the FA grabbed the whole tray (including the half-eaten bowl of somebody else's nuts) and walked off to the galley without a word.

I can't imagine why anybody in their right mind would pay serious money for this sort of service. Personally, going forward, I won't even be paying AA $250 each way to use my miles - I have far better uses for the money than to use it to pay for AA's increasingly-mediocre service.