Alan! Why the red face? Of course I've read your trip reports and they illustrate quite nicely why my views on the subject of menu transcripts still remain unchanged. This is not to say that your reports are not overall fine reports but rather that you provide a fairly basic description of the inflight experience. Of course, many FT readers could care less about what happens on board the plane. They just want to read a travelogue about what you did in Barcelona or Fargo or wherever. In this regard you accommodate them quite nicely. ^ ^


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If the primary intent of the trip report is to describe the inflight product (and titles such as SQ F Frankfurt to New York or LAX-BKK on JL/TG F strongly suggest this is the case), the inclusion of a menu transcript goes a long way towards providing a more thorough description. After all, a good First Class meal on a quality international carrier is often a more memorable aspect of the flight than the comfort of the seat or whether the flight arrived on time.

This having been said, my thanks go out to RTW4 for providing some of the finest examples of Trip Reporting on the First Class product. He also writes a pretty mean travelogue as well. ^ ^