FAQ: Air Canada New meal offerings for International Business Class Customers
Jun 16, 2018, 3:33 pm
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As always, can only speak from my own experience. In the days when we carried the 3 (Diet Coke/Ginger/Sprite) if asked for "something dietetic", I would proactively offer each. I can recall serving a few Diet Sprite and never a Diet Ginger. I think currently the case for Coke Zero is a good one, and would come at the expense of a Club Soda or Sprite. The drawers of all bars containing pop, pop trolleys, and pop carriers are standardized and adding more of one means reducing another. We have our own "internal" FT and much of the fine tuning is actioned as a result of our suggestions and feedback.
I can only imagine how much galley space that required.
You talk as if adding Diet Gingerale means you MUST remove something else. I guess I agree.
Maybe that something else should be a seat
Jun 16, 2018, 3:43 pm
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When I was but a young boy, I remember getting a hot meal in Y on transcons.
I can only imagine how much galley space that required.
You talk as if adding Diet Gingerale means you MUST remove something else. I guess I agree.
Maybe that something else should be a seat
I can only imagine how much galley space that required.
You talk as if adding Diet Gingerale means you MUST remove something else. I guess I agree.
Maybe that something else should be a seat
Talk about a sugar buzz.
Jun 22, 2018, 4:17 am
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Interesting that with so many new meal options, drink options, especially non-alcoholic haven't really stepped up.
Is the orange and apple juice served in international J minute maid? I'd be very impressed if they could serve some fresh juices/smoothies like other J cabins. Kombucha would be a real treat. Seems like drink options are limited to mediocre alcohols and pure sugar drinks.
Is the orange and apple juice served in international J minute maid? I'd be very impressed if they could serve some fresh juices/smoothies like other J cabins. Kombucha would be a real treat. Seems like drink options are limited to mediocre alcohols and pure sugar drinks.
Jun 22, 2018, 4:30 am
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My specific meal/drink comments-
- still a lack of drink options. Give me different juices, virgin cocktails
- alcoholic need to step up. Jw black doesnt cut it when marketing a new signature service.
- no hot drinks could be served when seatbelt sign on?? 9hrs into a flight and just waking up and being told no chance of coffee is ridiculous in J. FA said with 90min to go in the flight that seatbelt sign will be on until landing. Make it and ice it and give it to me.
- hawksworth duck is terrible. I eat at the resto few times a year and its great. This duck does not do the restaurant justice. Wife thought the same
- the second lighter meal was delicious- ginger chicken with couscous
- kitkats disappeared so fast but saw a couple stashed in the galley when going to use lavs
the signature service rebrand is more marketing than substance
Last edited by YVRYEGYVR; Jun 22, 2018 at 5:01 am Reason: Also no garlic bread
Jun 25, 2018, 7:48 pm
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July menus are now available. Pretty much a totally new menu for eastern TATL. Only the beef and the mixed greens remain as is. Main appetizer will be smoked duck, duck replaced by chicken byriani - with cashew nuts, the fish is the signature dish - sablefish, pastas are ravioli and desert is a lemon cheesecake
Jun 25, 2018, 8:59 pm
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July menus are now available. Pretty much a totally new menu for eastern TATL. Only the beef and the mixed greens remain as is. Main appetizer will be smoked duck, duck replaced by chicken byriani - with cashew nuts, the fish is the signature dish - sablefish, pastas are ravioli and desert is a lemon cheesecake
Surely that must be a mistake given how long the old Hawksworth chocolate cake lasted...
Jun 25, 2018, 9:33 pm
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Changes indeed.....except, that beef has been around for a long, long time
It seems the cheese will never change. Or the ex-Canada salad.
A few I know told me they found the mid-flight Chicken Parmesan Sandwich to be seriously meh, yet it is still around.
This is YVR-HKG/TPE
It seems the cheese will never change. Or the ex-Canada salad.
A few I know told me they found the mid-flight Chicken Parmesan Sandwich to be seriously meh, yet it is still around.
This is YVR-HKG/TPE
Last edited by 24left; Jun 25, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Jun 25, 2018, 9:38 pm
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Sounds good!^
And interesting to see AC offering a pork dish ex-Canada as one of the main options - I don't recall ever seeing a pork main option ex-Canada.
And interesting to see AC offering a pork dish ex-Canada as one of the main options - I don't recall ever seeing a pork main option ex-Canada.
Jun 25, 2018, 9:43 pm
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Jun 25, 2018, 9:57 pm
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Finally Hawksworth is coming up with the black cod the way it's supposed to be, miso-marinated. Instead of these overpowering sauces that detract from the fish.
Glad to see it features also on our next flight out of YYC.
Glad to see it features also on our next flight out of YYC.
Jul 3, 2018, 1:16 am
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Quick note and photos will follow when I have time
Just had the new Miso sablefish on AC 17
It was great.
New cheesecake dessert is quite quite nice but the pieces were tiny, lol
Just had the new Miso sablefish on AC 17
It was great.
New cheesecake dessert is quite quite nice but the pieces were tiny, lol
Jul 5, 2018, 3:13 pm
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PDB of champagne, water or OJ
If you'd told me there was a AC signature cocktail with maple syrup I'd have thought you were being funny. But there is and it's not half bad
Decent salmon dish but there wasn't enough of it. Also, an uninspiring salad
The chicken was actually really good, good flavor from the topping too
I'm not sure what that green cheese is and I'm not sure I want to know
Pie was tasty
The second meal was a bad joke. Cold and tasteless chicken with couscous, crackers, orange slices? Felt like a school cafeteria.
PDB of champagne, water or OJ
If you'd told me there was a AC signature cocktail with maple syrup I'd have thought you were being funny. But there is and it's not half bad
Decent salmon dish but there wasn't enough of it. Also, an uninspiring salad
The chicken was actually really good, good flavor from the topping too
I'm not sure what that green cheese is and I'm not sure I want to know
Pie was tasty
The second meal was a bad joke. Cold and tasteless chicken with couscous, crackers, orange slices? Felt like a school cafeteria.