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 30, 2016, 9:17 am
#1006
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS
Posts: 2,293
SEA/ LAX. 452 10:40 departure. Lunch
PDB. Bottled water
Creamy rice with grilled vegetables with breadstick. Side salad with Caesar dressing. Packaged brownie .
Rice flavored with onion and mint, kind of a risotto wannabe. Mixed greens salad was fine.
Pretty solid vegetarian lunch, for those who have requested more non meat meals.
PDB. Bottled water
Creamy rice with grilled vegetables with breadstick. Side salad with Caesar dressing. Packaged brownie .
Rice flavored with onion and mint, kind of a risotto wannabe. Mixed greens salad was fine.
Pretty solid vegetarian lunch, for those who have requested more non meat meals.
Oct 4, 2016, 8:51 am
#1007
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: AS MVPG75K, HH Diamond, Hyatt Explorist, AGR S+
Posts: 366
OO E175 STL-PDX
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Oct 4, 2016, 9:00 am
#1008
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: JNU
Programs: HH D, AS MM/MVPG for life/AL, Awesome Wipes VIP Club, NEXUS, Hertz 5-Star Gold
Posts: 2,893
OO E175 STL-PDX
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Oct 4, 2016, 9:12 am
#1009
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Location: PDX
Programs: AS 75K, BW Plat, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat, Hilton Gold
Posts: 10,733
OO E175 STL-PDX
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Oct 4, 2016, 11:10 am
#1010
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 5,957
OO E175 STL-PDX
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Water bottle at seat, no other PDB.
Hot towel and warmed nuts offered before meal.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better. No snack basket. We were over 4 hours in the air with a 350p departure time - this is awfully weak.
I'm not holding out hope but I'd really like to see our E175s come with enough storage to have actual glassware. After flying an Envoy E175 earlier in the day out of an outstation with a real mug for my coffee and glasses for drinks, plastic cups on a 4 hour flight just doesn't cut it. The F FA also had to raid the Y cart of liquor as she ran out of several up front. Apart from the constraints placed on the crew, their service was good.
Oct 4, 2016, 12:32 pm
#1011
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Location: PDX
Programs: AS 75K, BW Plat, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat, Hilton Gold
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Speaking of food, do you know if the west coast/mid-con breakfast still includes a pastry (danish)...someone upthread reported it was missing from their breakfast but I assume it was a catering error and not a change in food service.
Oct 4, 2016, 5:01 pm
#1012
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: ANC
Programs: AS MVPG
Posts: 244
As 315 sfo-sea
AS 315, SFO-SEA
10/3/16
4pm Departure
Had this same salmon caesar salad offered and had the same anemic portion...not really worth the effort. Did have the salmon and it was not very good...3 or 4 tiny cubes of what must be some canned pink salmon?
Would be a decent snack if there were more than 10 pieces of lettuce on the plate....otherwise service was fabulous with drink orders taken on the ground. FA indicated it was her first time in F on her own and I think she did better than many crews of two. :-)
10/3/16
4pm Departure
Had this same salmon caesar salad offered and had the same anemic portion...not really worth the effort. Did have the salmon and it was not very good...3 or 4 tiny cubes of what must be some canned pink salmon?
Would be a decent snack if there were more than 10 pieces of lettuce on the plate....otherwise service was fabulous with drink orders taken on the ground. FA indicated it was her first time in F on her own and I think she did better than many crews of two. :-)
OO E175 STL-PDX
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better.
Meal was a salmon caeser salad with a warm breadstick and the packaged lemon square. I'm not a salmon fan so I asked if it would be possible to have the salad without the salmon and the FA obliged. To say the meal was anemic would be putting it kindly. I think there were about 14 pieces of romaine and 5 croutons. The plates with salmon didn't look much better.
Oct 4, 2016, 6:53 pm
#1013
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 5,957
I don't think I've ever had salmon on an AS flight which is a bit surprising given that they have a huge painted salmon on one of the 737s....and yes, unlike polenta and kale, I actually like salmon so hopefully it shows up on my plate in F sometime Speaking of food, do you know if the west coast/mid-con breakfast still includes a pastry (danish)...someone upthread reported it was missing from their breakfast but I assume it was a catering error and not a change in food service.
Speaking of food, do you know if the west coast/mid-con breakfast still includes a pastry (danish)...someone upthread reported it was missing from their breakfast but I assume it was a catering error and not a change in food service.
Oct 4, 2016, 8:36 pm
#1014
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Queens!
Programs: Alaska Mileage Plan, Marriott Bonvoy, NEXUS
Posts: 334
Oct 4, 2016, 9:14 pm
#1015
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Location: Bay Area, CA
Programs: UA Plat 2MM; AS MVP Gold 75K
Posts: 35,068
10/2 AS 830 HNL-SJC
Appetizer
Tuna poke with wakami salad and sriracha mayonnaise
Entree
Green curry chicken with Japanese eggplant and steamed rice
OR
Beef filet with chimichurri, green pea risotto and sliced carrots
Dessert
Chocolate ganache tart with raspberry sauce
The appetizer was good, but the it was not poke. The tuna was cooked. Fine, but not as advertised.
I had the Japanese curry, which was excellent (these sorts of dishes tend to reheat well on a plane). Mild flavor, chicken was breast meat, overall a nice dish. Companion had the beef, which was overdone, dry and inedible. She did not eat it and then got a coach meal she was happy with.
Dessert was very nice -- chocolate was very rich, and raspberry sauce was almost a raspberry puree. A couple pax passed on dessert and was tempted to ask for seconds, but decided to be good and not do that.
Appetizer
Tuna poke with wakami salad and sriracha mayonnaise
Entree
Green curry chicken with Japanese eggplant and steamed rice
OR
Beef filet with chimichurri, green pea risotto and sliced carrots
Dessert
Chocolate ganache tart with raspberry sauce
The appetizer was good, but the it was not poke. The tuna was cooked. Fine, but not as advertised.
I had the Japanese curry, which was excellent (these sorts of dishes tend to reheat well on a plane). Mild flavor, chicken was breast meat, overall a nice dish. Companion had the beef, which was overdone, dry and inedible. She did not eat it and then got a coach meal she was happy with.
Dessert was very nice -- chocolate was very rich, and raspberry sauce was almost a raspberry puree. A couple pax passed on dessert and was tempted to ask for seconds, but decided to be good and not do that.
Oct 5, 2016, 4:57 am
#1016
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Location: PHX & AGP
Programs: AA Lifetime PLT, Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, Hilton Gold
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I thought I read awhile back something about the fact that the snack basket was not going to be served on mid-cons like STL-PDX or SEA-ORD. Despite the fact that everyone raves about the E175, it is still a regional jet that doesn't have the storage capacity you would find on the 737 so despite Alaska's best efforts at trying to create the same soft product experience, you're not going to always get the same level of catering that you would get on a 737 and we already know these flights are unable to store the inflight tablets. Flying home from MCI, if I'm in F, I'll always choose the 737 flight via SEA instead of the nonstop on the E175...the extra EQMs helps with the decision too
Oct 5, 2016, 4:58 am
#1017
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Location: PHX & AGP
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I don't think I've ever had salmon on an AS flight which is a bit surprising given that they have a huge painted salmon on one of the 737s....and yes, unlike polenta and kale, I actually like salmon so hopefully it shows up on my plate in F sometime Speaking of food, do you know if the west coast/mid-con breakfast still includes a pastry (danish)...someone upthread reported it was missing from their breakfast but I assume it was a catering error and not a change in food service.
Speaking of food, do you know if the west coast/mid-con breakfast still includes a pastry (danish)...someone upthread reported it was missing from their breakfast but I assume it was a catering error and not a change in food service.
Oct 5, 2016, 12:03 pm
#1018
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TUS/PDX
Programs: WN CP/A-List, AS MVPG75K
Posts: 5,798
Oct 5, 2016, 12:43 pm
#1019
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: PDX
Programs: AS 75K, BW Plat, Marriott Gold, IHG Plat, Hilton Gold
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10/2 AS 830 HNL-SJC
Appetizer
Tuna poke with wakami salad and sriracha mayonnaise
Entree
Green curry chicken with Japanese eggplant and steamed rice
OR
Beef filet with chimichurri, green pea risotto and sliced carrots
Dessert
Chocolate ganache tart with raspberry sauce
The appetizer was good, but the it was not poke. The tuna was cooked. Fine, but not as advertised.
I had the Japanese curry, which was excellent (these sorts of dishes tend to reheat well on a plane). Mild flavor, chicken was breast meat, overall a nice dish. Companion had the beef, which was overdone, dry and inedible. She did not eat it and then got a coach meal she was happy with.
Dessert was very nice -- chocolate was very rich, and raspberry sauce was almost a raspberry puree. A couple pax passed on dessert and was tempted to ask for seconds, but decided to be good and not do that.
Appetizer
Tuna poke with wakami salad and sriracha mayonnaise
Entree
Green curry chicken with Japanese eggplant and steamed rice
OR
Beef filet with chimichurri, green pea risotto and sliced carrots
Dessert
Chocolate ganache tart with raspberry sauce
The appetizer was good, but the it was not poke. The tuna was cooked. Fine, but not as advertised.
I had the Japanese curry, which was excellent (these sorts of dishes tend to reheat well on a plane). Mild flavor, chicken was breast meat, overall a nice dish. Companion had the beef, which was overdone, dry and inedible. She did not eat it and then got a coach meal she was happy with.
Dessert was very nice -- chocolate was very rich, and raspberry sauce was almost a raspberry puree. A couple pax passed on dessert and was tempted to ask for seconds, but decided to be good and not do that.
Oct 5, 2016, 12:57 pm
#1020
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: DEN
Programs: UA1K
Posts: 4,045
poke is raw sushi grade ahi or salmon. there may be other variations as well. i for one, love poke. i go to bear flag fish co in newport beach all the time. excellent poke.