Jan 3, 2017, 9:02 am
Last edit by: Seat 2A
How to find out what the meal service will be for a specific Alaska Air flight:
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.
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.
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.
For anyone desiring a more structured or organized submission, here is a template (You'll need to add a / before the last bracketed B as in [/b]):
[B]Date of Flight[B]:
[B]Flight Number and Route flown[B]:
[B]Time of Departure[B]:
[B]Length of flight[B]:
[B]Class of service[B]:
[B]Pre-Departure Beverage service[B]:
[B]Meal served[B]:
[B]Meal Description[B]: .
[B]Additional Comments[B]:
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.
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.
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.
For anyone desiring a more structured or organized submission, here is a template (You'll need to add a / before the last bracketed B as in [/b]):
[B]Date of Flight[B]:
[B]Flight Number and Route flown[B]:
[B]Time of Departure[B]:
[B]Length of flight[B]:
[B]Class of service[B]:
[B]Pre-Departure Beverage service[B]:
[B]Meal served[B]:
[B]Meal Description[B]: .
[B]Additional Comments[B]:
What Will Alaska Airlines Be Serving In First Class On Your Flight? (2017)
Mar 8, 2017, 7:40 pm
#271
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Date of Flight: March 6th, 2017
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 727 RDU-SEA
Time of Departure: 5:25pm
Length of flight: 5:30
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The menu read as follows:
Additional Comments: These were hitherto unknown entreés for me aboard Alaska. This was also the first I'd seen of Chef Douglas' influence in First Class fare. Both meals read deliciously off the menu and although I ordered the chicken, the pasta served across the aisle looked quite good as well. The salad dressing served in the small ramekin was a nice touch. It's nice to see some new entreés come into the cycles. Here's to many more!
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 727 RDU-SEA
Time of Departure: 5:25pm
Length of flight: 5:30
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The menu read as follows:
Today's Menu
Curated by Chef Tom Douglas
Salad
Romaine, oven roasted tomatoes, bacon and Parmesan cheese.
Caesar Dressing
ENTREE SELECTIONS
Roasted Chicken with Thyme and Garlic
Sweet onion mustard, bacon vinaigrette braised red cabbage and spaetzle
Orecchiette Primavera Pasta
Pistachio pesto, cherry tomato relish and shredded Parmesan cheese
Dessert
Ghirardelli's Chocolate Brownie with Seattle Chocolates Rainier cherry truffle center
Curated by Chef Tom Douglas
Salad
Romaine, oven roasted tomatoes, bacon and Parmesan cheese.
Caesar Dressing
ENTREE SELECTIONS
Roasted Chicken with Thyme and Garlic
Sweet onion mustard, bacon vinaigrette braised red cabbage and spaetzle
Orecchiette Primavera Pasta
Pistachio pesto, cherry tomato relish and shredded Parmesan cheese
Dessert
Ghirardelli's Chocolate Brownie with Seattle Chocolates Rainier cherry truffle center
Additional Comments: These were hitherto unknown entreés for me aboard Alaska. This was also the first I'd seen of Chef Douglas' influence in First Class fare. Both meals read deliciously off the menu and although I ordered the chicken, the pasta served across the aisle looked quite good as well. The salad dressing served in the small ramekin was a nice touch. It's nice to see some new entreés come into the cycles. Here's to many more!
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
Last edited by Seat 2A; Mar 8, 2017 at 7:52 pm
Mar 8, 2017, 7:48 pm
#272
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Date of Flight: March 7th, 2017
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 678 SEA-DEN
Time of Departure: 7:40pm
Length of flight: 2:00
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The meal was described by the FA as braised short ribs served atop orecchiette pasta with brocollini.
Additional Comments: For a mere two hour flight, this is about as good as it gets these days. The meat was very flavorful though I wish there'd been a bit more of it. Additionally, the brocollini was surprisingly tender. Overall, a very nice meal.
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 678 SEA-DEN
Time of Departure: 7:40pm
Length of flight: 2:00
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The meal was described by the FA as braised short ribs served atop orecchiette pasta with brocollini.
Additional Comments: For a mere two hour flight, this is about as good as it gets these days. The meat was very flavorful though I wish there'd been a bit more of it. Additionally, the brocollini was surprisingly tender. Overall, a very nice meal.
Last edited by Seat 2A; Mar 10, 2017 at 10:04 am
Mar 8, 2017, 9:57 pm
#273
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Seat 2A, that salad on RDU-SEA has got to be one of the best trans con salads I've ever seen.....right up there with the shrimp caesar salad from a year or two ago....although, as we know, bacon makes everything better 
At first I thought that was corn with the chicken...I like corn, but don't recall ever seeing it served on any airline.
At first I thought that was corn with the chicken...I like corn, but don't recall ever seeing it served on any airline.
Mar 9, 2017, 8:34 am
#275
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Mar 9, 2017, 8:51 am
#276
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These were hitherto unknown entreés for me aboard Alaska. This was also the first I'd seen of Chef Douglas' influence in First Class fare. Both meals read deliciously off the menu and although I ordered the chicken, the pasta served across the aisle looked quite good as well. The salad dressing served in the small ramekin was a nice touch. It's nice to see some new entreés come into the cycles. Here's to many more!
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
Mar 9, 2017, 9:15 am
#277
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Did you see the granola offering? Was it the same paltry portion size as the one they serve on west coast short hops? I really enjoy it on those short flights but I agree for a transcon it would not be appropriate at all unless backed up with a bread basket, a more sizable fruit side, the yogurt, and maybe even something else like bacon or sausage.
I had the omelet and bacon, and both were ^^
Mar 9, 2017, 9:25 am
#278
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Mmmmm. February tomatoes from Logan Organic Farms.
Mar 10, 2017, 8:58 am
#279
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Anchorage, AK
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Date of Flight: March 5th, 2017
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 754 SEA-RDU
Time of Departure: 8:30am
Length of flight: 4:20
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Breakfast
Meal Description: Per the menu:
Additional Comments: The fruit plate was served in one of last year's tapas style dishes. Maybe catering ran out of plates. Let's hope so. I thought the portion was paltry and the presentation poor.
As for the oatmeal, I'll bet there are a few granola heads who'll love the addition of this entree. While I think it's a nice meal, I also think it's an unsuitable entree for a 4.5 hour transcon flight. But that's just me. Who knows, it may be exactly what some people have been writing to Alaska Cares to have added to the menu.
So of course I ordered the omelet. It was every bit as delicious as it looked and the bacon was also exceptional. Overall, a good breakfast with excellent service from our FA.
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 754 SEA-RDU
Time of Departure: 8:30am
Length of flight: 4:20
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Breakfast
Meal Description: Per the menu:
Additional Comments: The fruit plate was served in one of last year's tapas style dishes. Maybe catering ran out of plates. Let's hope so. I thought the portion was paltry and the presentation poor.
As for the oatmeal, I'll bet there are a few granola heads who'll love the addition of this entree. While I think it's a nice meal, I also think it's an unsuitable entree for a 4.5 hour transcon flight. But that's just me. Who knows, it may be exactly what some people have been writing to Alaska Cares to have added to the menu.
So of course I ordered the omelet. It was every bit as delicious as it looked and the bacon was also exceptional. Overall, a good breakfast with excellent service from our FA.
Mar 10, 2017, 9:06 am
#280
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Anchorage, AK
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Posts: 8,259
Date of Flight: March 6th, 2017
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 727 RDU-SEA
Time of Departure: 5:25pm
Length of flight: 5:30
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The menu read as follows:
Additional Comments: These were hitherto unknown entreés for me aboard Alaska. This was also the first I'd seen of Chef Douglas' influence in First Class fare. Both meals read deliciously off the menu and although I ordered the chicken, the pasta served across the aisle looked quite good as well. The salad dressing served in the small ramekin was a nice touch. It's nice to see some new entreés come into the cycles. Here's to many more!
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 727 RDU-SEA
Time of Departure: 5:25pm
Length of flight: 5:30
Class of service: First
Pre-Departure Beverage service: Bottled water at seat
Meal served: Dinner
Meal Description: The menu read as follows:
Additional Comments: These were hitherto unknown entreés for me aboard Alaska. This was also the first I'd seen of Chef Douglas' influence in First Class fare. Both meals read deliciously off the menu and although I ordered the chicken, the pasta served across the aisle looked quite good as well. The salad dressing served in the small ramekin was a nice touch. It's nice to see some new entreés come into the cycles. Here's to many more!
And special thanks to Brian for a spectacular job. His service is a credit to Alaska and FA's everywhere. ^
I was in row 3 and the other option, a vegetarian pasta was already taken by the time they got to me. The FA said that only 4 pasta dishes were catered since it was vegetarian instead of the standard 50/50 split.
No menus were offered but the FA knew exactly what each meal included and made both of them sound very good.
Mar 10, 2017, 12:25 pm
#281
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Originally Posted by dayone
AA has offered corn with red chili onions, truffle corn salsa and corn chowder. DL has offered roasted corn.
Originally Posted by tusphotog
Fly American. They love serving corn. Just had it last week (for the fifth time since November!) on CLT-PHX.
Just in case there's any confusion, the substance in question was spaetzle or more correctly, spätzle. It is not corn. What is spätzle? It's like German polenta.
No, No! Just kidding!
In truth, it's a type of noodle made from eggs, flour and salt. The style served with my referenced Alaska meal was the knöpfle type of spätzle.
Guten Appetit!
Mar 10, 2017, 3:24 pm
#282
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 998
We had this meal on AS287 HAV-LAX on 3 8 2017 except dessert, which was a packaged brownie. I honestly thought that this was one of the best meals I have ever had on AS. The flavors were great and I especially loved the Spaetzli. It was lightly fried, the braised cabbage was very flavorful and the chicken was moist. I think the chicken was a thigh.
I was in row 3 and the other option, a vegetarian pasta was already taken by the time they got to me. The FA said that only 4 pasta dishes were catered since it was vegetarian instead of the standard 50/50 split.
No menus were offered but the FA knew exactly what each meal included and made both of them sound very good.
I was in row 3 and the other option, a vegetarian pasta was already taken by the time they got to me. The FA said that only 4 pasta dishes were catered since it was vegetarian instead of the standard 50/50 split.
No menus were offered but the FA knew exactly what each meal included and made both of them sound very good.
Mar 10, 2017, 6:32 pm
#283
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS
Posts: 2,293
Just in case there's any confusion, the substance in question was spaetzle or more correctly, spätzle. It is not corn. What is spätzle? It's like German polenta.
No, No! Just kidding!
In truth, it's a type of noodle made from eggs, flour and salt. The style served with my referenced Alaska meal was the knöpfle type of spätzle.
Guten Appetit!
No, No! Just kidding!
In truth, it's a type of noodle made from eggs, flour and salt. The style served with my referenced Alaska meal was the knöpfle type of spätzle.
Guten Appetit!
Mar 10, 2017, 6:42 pm
#284
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Mar 11, 2017, 1:54 pm
#285
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Posts: 300
This morning's "Burbank Breakfast" on AS 531.
Same F/A in F as the last time I flew out on a Saturday morning, and I recognized another F/A working coach from a different Burbank flight.
Had Captain Mark who comes out and makes a pre-flight announcement to the whole plane and talks about how he used to fly corporate jets where the VIPs all sat in the back but on Alaska, they fill the plane. I've had him before, I think on SEA-PHX.
Breakfast sandwich is the same I had in December.
Same F/A in F as the last time I flew out on a Saturday morning, and I recognized another F/A working coach from a different Burbank flight.
Had Captain Mark who comes out and makes a pre-flight announcement to the whole plane and talks about how he used to fly corporate jets where the VIPs all sat in the back but on Alaska, they fill the plane. I've had him before, I think on SEA-PHX.
Breakfast sandwich is the same I had in December.