Originally Posted by
iahphx
Anyone take this flight recently in coach? My wife and I are 1K's flying in Economy Plus on cheapo award tickets from Turkish Smiles. Not expecting to enjoy the flight, but figure it will be bearable on the 767 in coach. I see that UA is serving a free breakfast on the outbound. I'm not expecting much for a domestic coach breakfast,. Do they do an additional snack, or is it wise to bring along some food? As 1Ks, we're also theoretically entitled to a free sandwich or such, but the website says they don't load any on this flight because there's a free meal. Do they sell the $10 prepackaged snackboxes (which we'd also be entitled to)? That would be nice for the 11+ hour flight!
Surprised I received no responses. So here's the deal. The coach food on the flight is dreadful. Bring your own -- enough for 11 hours. Breakfast is a mini warmed croissant with a mini yogurt and a couple of snack packets. The second "meal" was a bag of pretzels. There is no food to buy except a couple of snacks like $5 chips and the bad $10 shelf-stable snack boxes that we at least got for free as 1Ks. Honesty, UA should be embarrassed by this. If they don't want to provide reasonable food for free, they should provide none, tell you this, and sell sandwiches and such.
FWIW, I didn't see any advantage of the bulkhead in Economy+ over the other Economy+ seats on the 767. Emergency exit row has the door that sticks out in front of the window seat that will annoy most. Couples will prefer the 2-seats along the window, but if the flight isn't too crowded, most couples will probably prefer the aisles in the middle 3 seats. Look at the seat map before departure to see how many empty seats there are.