Apr 8, 2016, 10:40 am
Last edit by: rustykettel
How to find out what the meal service will be for a specific Alaska Air flight:
What *specifically* is offered in first class for B, L, D, or S is the source of much discussion in this thread.
Sometimes a S (snack) will seem more substantial than what's offered as L (lunch). That's where searching this thread can be of assistance.
As near as I can tell for the coach section:
1) On the website, use the "Explore" tab and select "Flight Schedules" from the left-hand side of the drop-down menu.
2) Plug in your city-pair and your week of travel, and the site will pull up all of the Alaska Air flights for that week.
3) Find your flight number on the list. From there you can see what's offered for the meal service. There are two columns corresponding to first class and coach.
2) Plug in your city-pair and your week of travel, and the site will pull up all of the Alaska Air flights for that week.
3) Find your flight number on the list. From there you can see what's offered for the meal service. There are two columns corresponding to first class and coach.
A) In first class the codes are (B-breakfast; L-lunch; D-dinner; S-snack).
B) For coach the section may be blank (meaning beverage service and for-purchase cold snack-packs). Or it may show "F" or "F,F" to indicate there are other items for purchase on longer routes like a cheese plate, or in some cases the Beecher's breakfast sandwich or one of the Tom Douglas items.
B) For coach the section may be blank (meaning beverage service and for-purchase cold snack-packs). Or it may show "F" or "F,F" to indicate there are other items for purchase on longer routes like a cheese plate, or in some cases the Beecher's breakfast sandwich or one of the Tom Douglas items.
What *specifically* is offered in first class for B, L, D, or S is the source of much discussion in this thread.
Sometimes a S (snack) will seem more substantial than what's offered as L (lunch). That's where searching this thread can be of assistance.
As near as I can tell for the coach section:
Blank = snack packs only;
"F" = snack packs and cheese plates offered;
"F,F" = snack packs, cheese plate, plus one other item on offer.
Please feel free to edit if that assumption is not correct."F" = snack packs and cheese plates offered;
"F,F" = snack packs, cheese plate, plus one other item on offer.
What Will Alaska Be Serving In First Class On Your Flight? (2016 edition)
Sep 4, 2016, 12:23 pm
#961
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SEA-LAX. 8am Departure. Water, OJ or coffee for pre-departure. Choice of eggs/sausage/waffle or granola.
Sep 4, 2016, 3:50 pm
#962
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Sep 4, 2016, 4:10 pm
#963
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8/23 AS 562 PDX-LAX - snack (light dinner)
8/23 AS 567 LAX-PDX - cookies
8/24 AS 562 PDX-LAX - snack (light dinner)
Chicken & ravioli previously reviewed here. Interesting how different FA's plate the same meal.
(The crumpled cookies were my fault. I was rearranging the plate and smashed them.)
8/23 AS 567 LAX-PDX - cookies
8/24 AS 562 PDX-LAX - snack (light dinner)
Chicken & ravioli previously reviewed here. Interesting how different FA's plate the same meal.
(The crumpled cookies were my fault. I was rearranging the plate and smashed them.)
Sep 7, 2016, 1:52 pm
#964
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: ANC
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AS 112 ANC-SEA 7am
Breakfast served
Choice given was of waffle or cold cereal
Hot towels, followed by Delta Biscoff
Waffle option plated with sausage, eggs, danish, fruit.
Pretty good, didn't care for the sausage and didn't try the danish.
Choice given was of waffle or cold cereal
Hot towels, followed by Delta Biscoff
Waffle option plated with sausage, eggs, danish, fruit.
Pretty good, didn't care for the sausage and didn't try the danish.
Sep 7, 2016, 3:57 pm
#965
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oh, hell no.
please report this. please.
AS catering is as sharp as a bowling ball and we need to start drawing some serious attention to it. almost every post in here lately has some sort of catering error/oversight/gap/etc. whether it's too few menus, menus not matching food, missing dishes, etc...or now this...we need to start casting light on it.
please report this. please.
AS catering is as sharp as a bowling ball and we need to start drawing some serious attention to it. almost every post in here lately has some sort of catering error/oversight/gap/etc. whether it's too few menus, menus not matching food, missing dishes, etc...or now this...we need to start casting light on it.
Sep 8, 2016, 1:49 pm
#967
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Sep 8, 2016, 2:42 pm
#968
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TUS/PDX
Programs: WN CP/A-List, AS MVPG75K
Posts: 5,798
9/8 PDX-PHX 930a departure: I decided to not be a vampire and fly the nonstop, daytime flight. The snack was the exact same fruit and cheese plate from coach. Looked as good as always (didn't eat it though). Excellent PDX based crew.
I've always found the danishes are either super sweet (like diabetes inducing sweet) or extremely dry. Still, they're a heck of a lot better than the old breakfasts on the coasts which were routinely the breakfast sandwich from coach on a plate. Nothing beats the heart-attack inducing biscuits on AA with some butter on them. 
Sep 12, 2016, 8:13 am
#969
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9/11 BOS-PDX 4:40 PM Departure.
Salad: baby arugula and mesclun mix with warm roasted butternut squash, toasted pumpkin seeds and goat cheese. Warm roll.
Entree choice: panko crusted chicken dijon with maple demi-glace, mashed sweet potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts
or
Cheese Tortellini with cherry tomato sauce, sliced italian sausage, and fresh arugula.
Dessert: Chocolate Walnut Brownie with rum whipped cream.
Salad: baby arugula and mesclun mix with warm roasted butternut squash, toasted pumpkin seeds and goat cheese. Warm roll.
Entree choice: panko crusted chicken dijon with maple demi-glace, mashed sweet potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts
or
Cheese Tortellini with cherry tomato sauce, sliced italian sausage, and fresh arugula.
Dessert: Chocolate Walnut Brownie with rum whipped cream.
Sep 12, 2016, 10:31 am
#970
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Location: Treasure Coast, FL
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9/11 BOS-PDX 4:40 PM Departure.
Salad: baby arugula and mesclun mix with warm roasted butternut squash, toasted pumpkin seeds and goat cheese. Warm roll.
Entree choice: panko crusted chicken dijon with maple demi-glace, mashed sweet potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts
or
Cheese Tortellini with cherry tomato sauce, sliced italian sausage, and fresh arugula.
Dessert: Chocolate Walnut Brownie with rum whipped cream.
Salad: baby arugula and mesclun mix with warm roasted butternut squash, toasted pumpkin seeds and goat cheese. Warm roll.
Entree choice: panko crusted chicken dijon with maple demi-glace, mashed sweet potatoes, and roasted brussels sprouts
or
Cheese Tortellini with cherry tomato sauce, sliced italian sausage, and fresh arugula.
Dessert: Chocolate Walnut Brownie with rum whipped cream.
Arugula is a horrible taste to me. Not sure why AS just can't do a simple salad. Greens (romaine, spring mix), veggies (carrots, cucumber and tomatoes), and dressing.
Sep 12, 2016, 12:40 pm
#971
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Although I don't care for dandelion leaves (oh wait, I mean "arugula"), it at least makes sense in a salad....where it makes no sense is dumping it on top of a pasta dish. For what it's worth, the the FAs actually put the arugula on the pasta so if you (like me) prefer the pasta without it, just ask them to leave it off when you order.
Sep 19, 2016, 10:07 pm
#972
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS
Posts: 2,295
9/19 SEA/ SLC. #706. Departure 2:20pm
Snack
Ancient grain salad with grilled chicken.
Arugula, quinoa , red peppers and sliced grapes. Cold pieces grilled chicken on top,with feta cheese. Balsamic dressing and warm bread stick.
Seattle chocolate-toffee
Very good for such a short flight.
Still eating when decent was announced
Snack
Ancient grain salad with grilled chicken.
Arugula, quinoa , red peppers and sliced grapes. Cold pieces grilled chicken on top,with feta cheese. Balsamic dressing and warm bread stick.
Seattle chocolate-toffee
Very good for such a short flight.
Still eating when decent was announced
Sep 20, 2016, 3:30 am
#973
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The shorter meal service flights seem to be quite a challenge for AS. PDX-LAX last Friday, meal for us in Row 3 was served about the time we started our descent and not everyone before us ordered a meal.
Unfortunately, one realistic possible answer to complaints about the pace of service would be to discontinue it altogether. Two things I think that would help would be PDBs and taking orders on the ground rather than waiting for 10kft to start that.
Unfortunately, one realistic possible answer to complaints about the pace of service would be to discontinue it altogether. Two things I think that would help would be PDBs and taking orders on the ground rather than waiting for 10kft to start that.
Sep 20, 2016, 4:28 pm
#974
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 599
9/19 SFO - SEA 6am departure.
biscoff snack, some chicken-egg-scramble-crepe type thing with guac/salsa, fruit plate.
coffee drinks etc.
biscoff snack, some chicken-egg-scramble-crepe type thing with guac/salsa, fruit plate.
coffee drinks etc.
Sep 20, 2016, 8:09 pm
#975
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Seattle, Wa
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2 Mediocre Cookies both ways on my Recent SEA-LAX RT. Now granted they were night flights but irregardless of that - 2 cookies is a joke in F on a 2:05 minute flight on a 739