Originally Posted by NW Wiki

Domestic First Class Meal Scheduling Parameters
These are the current (as of 7/19/2006) meal scheduling parameters for domestic first class:

Flights longer than 2 ½ hours
Scheduled flight departure time in relationship to the following time windows:

Breakfast: 5:00am – 9:45am
Lunch: 9:46am – 1:30pm
Snack: 1:31pm – 3:59pm
Dinner: 4:00pm – 7:30pm
The lunch, snack, and dinner window will slightly vary for longer flights as well as on the direction of the flight (east bound versus west bound). Some examples:

DTW-LAX’s dinner ending parameter time is 8:00pm vs. 7:30pm
MSP-TPA’s lunch ending parameter time is 1:59pm vs. 1:30pm

Originally Posted by jacksafar

I'm just a bit confused about this. Maybe someone could help clarify for me. I tried a search first but couldn't locate anything relevant. I'm on NW158 SEA-MSP on Sat 19JAN. This flight departs SEA at 900a and arrives MSP at 214p.

I take all these flights often between SEA & MSP and I swear that this flight has always been a Lunch flight. Maybe I'm crazy in the head. But I swear just a few weeks ago I took this flight. Got the BF upgrade when the agent came on to close the door at 9a sharp, I was in 14A getting rained on cause the jetway wasn't covering the gap between the plane and jetway. I headed up front to 2-D. I swear I remember it being a lunch flight, I'm pretty sure I had a ruben sandwich, as a matter of fact. I feel like the fellow to my left had some sort of salad. The flight time didn't change both times it was a 900a departure.

Does this change midweek vs weekend? Or are their times for meals that are set? It just seems screwy that now it is a Breakfast in F and a few weeks ago it was a Lunch. I'm sure theres arguments that could be made for either. I'm happy with whatever, I'm just there for the mediocre bloody marys anyway.