Originally Posted by
ryanm
I'm looking at flights between Chicago and NYC in November, none of which seem to have meals in F regardless of time, airplane, or airports. I know I've had full meals on this route before; is this a recent change? Was it an exception route before, like NYC-ATL, and isn't any longer? It obviously falls just under the 900-mile threshold.
The exception routes died with COVID in 2020 - I don't expect them to come back. ORD-LGA was one of them. I believe there are some " new exception routes" ex-SEA on routes competitive with AS, but that's it nowadays.