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Old Mar 8, 2022 | 12:42 pm
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Originally Posted by ualboston1k
Thanks team. UA's website says special meals like GF are returning in Q2. So should be fine for summer.

My concern is since the system says 'No Meal" there isn't even an option to order a special meal should I want one.
to be fair, meal listings on long haul flights have been an issue…always. Display of these is not good. ive seen everything from ‘snack’ on TATL to “1” (or some other number code) on TPACS. Long-haul TATL/TPACS have always included a meal, and highly suspect these are not going away (IIIRC, Pre-merger (I think)) UA did at some point announce they were going to pilot getting rid of free hot meals on IAD-EU and replace with a BOB - but that never even started due to all the negative feedback and so it got rescinded pretty quick.

glad to see they have updated the special meal page - as recently as last week or so I checked -and it talked about how they were planning to introduce Kosher meals on all long-haul flights on some date in January - it was only available on TLV and a few other long-haul routes before then. I want to hope that AVMLs would be back in time for our April 1 flight to LHR - which is typically what my wife and kids have - though I suspect ‘Q2’ means sometime in the quarter, as late as end of June - but hopefully they will at least have a veggie option as one of the options - I think they typically do on TATLs - or at least used to. If they aren’t back as we plan to book a trip to S. India for June - this very well may push us to book on SQ (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing) or LH instead.
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