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Old Jan 24, 2023 | 8:15 am
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Originally Posted by Oxon Flyer
I'm pretty sure someone in Finnair's catering team is currently facepalming themselves in disbelief when they read a customer describing "Vasterbotton cheese mousse with pickled kohlrabi and seaweed caviar" as "cheese spread". I found the dish intensely flavourful, and the 3 chunks of salmon sashimi were lovely too. Best airline starter I've had for ages. Very Nordic, and absolutely appropriate for this length of flight.
Well, how would you describe it if you hadn't seen the menu? It was cheese crumbles and a creme fraiche like dairy product mixed together. It was not bad at all, and yes, it was flavourful. But it was just a cheese spread. Nothing more, nothing less.

I also liked the salmon (and the shimejis), nothing wrong with that except for the portion size. I agree with you on the fact that there was quite enough food for a six-hour flight, though. Problem is, AY serves the exact same amount of food on a 13-hour flight.

Originally Posted by MaxFlyer
Will do. Having failed to try and reach Finnair CS to change the time of my connecting flight I'm hoping that the check-in staff might be able to do it, however, I'm not holding out as contract check-in staff may not be trained up.
My guess is they will just tell you to take care of it at HEL, unfortunately. While the A333 is marginally slower than the A350, the flight times are well-padded, so the equipment change won't automatically mean that you will arrive with a delay, though.

Last edited by NewbieRunner; Jan 25, 2023 at 6:46 am Reason: Please use multi-quote
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