Originally Posted by
Unimatrix One
In Japan, JAL serves full hot meals in F on every flight between Tokyo (HND) and Osaka (ITM) -- 45 to 50 minutes in the air. (I think it's around 280 miles, IIRC.) And also at least two rounds of drinks (sometimes three).
I had the pleasure of experiencing this last year… though of course, the Asian airlines are also more generous with staffing. For the 12 F seats on the ITM-HND flight, JL staffed 2 FAs. But at the speed at which the fairly senior FAs assigned to F (who were amazing), one of them could have handled the job. Probably not possible in the US though…