Originally Posted by
Polytonic
Boarded a flight today, everything seemed fine. About an hour into the flight, FA starts handing out snacks, and then informs everyone in the front cabin that the ovens are broken, and that they only found out 15 minutes before the flight. Offered choice of cold sandwiches (either vegetarian or mystery meat). Glad I ate in the lounge beforehand. Really unfortunate that they didn't mention it prior to boarding, so that people could buy their own hot meals beforehand.
it wouldn't surprise me that the FAs found out that late, but obviously someone knew since catering was able to send sandwiches (presumably the FAs on the previous flight reported it INOP).
Not really sure how DL would inform you of this in advance, though. Their app updates are pretty rudimentary and seem limited to normal, expected events (gate assignment/change, boarding, etc). I suppose they could have someone call everyone in F and let them know but I certainly wouldn't expect that.