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Old Mar 24, 2026 | 1:57 am
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Carfield
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Originally Posted by tfung
Agree about the breakfast service starting too early.. but I guess when you need to serve 50+ passengers, if they try to serve it all 1 hour before landing, it might be a bit too chaotic especially when the aircraft starts to descend and passengers also rushing to go to bathroom, etc..
Especially they have not restored the galley F/A that they eliminated during Covid. However, I still think breakfast can still be done easily 90 minutes prior to arrival, and there are still ample times for passengers to use the lavatory. 60 minutes may be on the rush side, but 90 minutes sound pretty reasonable especially it is no longer a three course meal, which most people here dislike. [I personally prefer the old service but guess the new generation of premium passengers demand a simple service.]

On my last daytime flight from SFO to HKG, they began breakfast service by coming around with linen at 00:55am SFO local time, and then my breakfast tray was handed to me at 1:18am (I was at 21A - last row of J in A350-900 and J was full), and then everything was clear (my tray was collected) at 1:35am. Then lights were turned off again. We did not land until 3:28am SFO (6:28pm HK local time). The newly trained Thai F/A even prepared the cabin for landing before the pilot turned on the seat belt sign. Then of course we were slowed down by ATC control.

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