Originally Posted by
foodmapper
On a recent IAD-CPH flight in business, the flight attendants didn't even start the main meal service until 2 hours into the 8hr flight. I asked for my meal all at once so I could go to sleep and was told no. 3 hours into the flight we had made it through the appetizer and entree but there was still the cheese course and dessert to go. I asked for my bedding and tried to go to sleep since we were landing in 5hrs. One of the chef-dressed flight attendants came by and bothered me about not wanting dessert when I was clearly getting ready to go to sleep.
I haven't flown much transatlantic business but the meal service seemed incredibly slow and late to me. Everything else about the flight was pretty nice but the slow pace of the meal and weird hassle about dessert would prevent me from flying them again in business.
Was this a fluke or is the dinner meal service normally this slow on SAS transatlantic?
Pretty normal course of events. I experienced this all the time on SK946 to the point where I stopped waiting for the meal and just went to sleep right away. Something the appalling timing of the flight mandates regardless. Getting a 3-4 hour dinner experience followed by the lights being on for another 2 hours is very normal and incredibly FRUSTRATING. Usually the lights go off for 1,5-2 hours before the crew starts throwing cutlery around in the kitchen like drunken apes on illegal drugs.
DL lets me eat and go to bed within 50 minute of take off, with better food, more attentive service, and a focus on getting passengers to sleep given its a night flight.
Years of complaining to SAS made no difference so don't get your hopes up for improvements.