What Will Alaska Airlines Be Serving in First Class on Your Flight? (2018)
Oct 16, 2018, 2:56 pm
#931
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Date of Flight: October 07, 2018
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 110 ANC-SEA
Time of Departure: 1:25pm
Length of flight: 3:00
Class of service: First
Meal served: Luncheon
Meal Description: No menus were provided and the FA was pretty vague as to our options. Chicken or some vegetarian dish that I don't recall.
Additional Comments: I believe this was the Persian Chicken. It was delicious with nicely roasted sweet potatoes and this superb rice, onion and raisin mixture. I look forward to my next encounter with it. Delicious!
Nazila
Oct 16, 2018, 4:23 pm
#932
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The chicken dish looks good although I'd remove the raisins from the rice and swap out the sweet potatoes with fried russet potatoes.
Oct 16, 2018, 5:25 pm
#933
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Location: East Ester, Alaska
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Date of Flight: October 13, 2018
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 137 PDX-ANC
Time of Departure: 12:20pm
Length of flight: 3:20
Class of service: First
Meal served: Luncheon
Meal Description: No menus were provided, but we were offered the now ubiquitous Rosemary Chicken Breast or the Gnocchi plate. I've had both and I like 'em both. They've also both been reported upon here ad nauseum. Still, at least now y'all know what's being served on the PDX-ANC route this month, so there. BTW, I had the chicken which was cooked just about as well as you can cook it in an airplane oven - that is to say it was perfectly moist, tender and juicy. I liked them Brussels Sprouts, too. A good dish. I'm flying PDX-ANC again next week and I'll probably get the gnocchi then though I'll refrain from saddling this forum with a review that could only be considered redundant at this point..
Oct 16, 2018, 8:54 pm
#934
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Location: Seattle
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October 16, 2018
AS 37. MSP-SEA
Time of Departure 4:40pm. About a 4 hour flight
First- Dinner
First time for this choice.
Spinach salad with small piece of cooked salmon and lemon vinaigrette. Also, included poached pear slice, sliced grapes, feta cheese ,pickled red onions and walnuts. Seeded roll (WARM!!) with butter and a ROON. Other option was Rosemary Chicken Breast with Polenta cake and Brussel Sprouts. 11 chicken and 5 salads were loaded. Salad went first, gone by end of Row 2.
Also, digi players offered ...no WIFI on this flight, received email morning of flight. Sorry, no pics.
AS 37. MSP-SEA
Time of Departure 4:40pm. About a 4 hour flight
First- Dinner
First time for this choice.
Spinach salad with small piece of cooked salmon and lemon vinaigrette. Also, included poached pear slice, sliced grapes, feta cheese ,pickled red onions and walnuts. Seeded roll (WARM!!) with butter and a ROON. Other option was Rosemary Chicken Breast with Polenta cake and Brussel Sprouts. 11 chicken and 5 salads were loaded. Salad went first, gone by end of Row 2.
Also, digi players offered ...no WIFI on this flight, received email morning of flight. Sorry, no pics.
Oct 18, 2018, 2:47 pm
#935
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Date of Flight: October 18, 2018
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 131 PDX-ANC
Time of Departure: 10:25am
Length of flight: 3:40
Class of service: First
Meal served: Luncheon
Meal Description: It looks like menus have been retired for good. I flew out to New York and back this week and they were conspicuously absent. If Alaska's not going to employ them on West Coast to New York transcon flights where they're up against the big boys, I should imagine they're not going to use them anywhere. Oh well - it was a nice touch while it lasted. As for today's luncheon - a couple of things - First, I'm transmitting live from the flight in question while we cruise high above the Gulf of Alaska. Secondly, today is my first experience with Alaska's new faux wood dining trays and its new inflight crockery. Everything looks great though lovers of cocktail nuts will be disappointed by the smaller size of the ramekins. If you want to see a picture of the new ramekin, you'll probably have to wait until the illustrious Carfield flies on a flight so catered. As to the meal, we were offered a choice of chicken breast and polenta or gnocchi with mushrooms. I went with the latter and found it so good it's gonna be my go-to dish on all future flights on which it's offered. Great service from the crew as well on this flight. ^^ ..
Oct 18, 2018, 3:03 pm
#936
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Location: DCA
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Thanks for the photos. These faux wood trays look very similar to something Delta used to use from about mid-2011 up till their latest refresh a year or so back.
Oct 18, 2018, 6:49 pm
#937
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Was wondering what AS would transition to with its china, as I've seen it appearing in the Boardrooms
Oct 19, 2018, 7:19 pm
#938
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We didn't get the new trays on SEA-PHL and PHL-SEA this past week but we did get menus both directions. So the menus aren't dead and buried yet.
Last edited by Westcoaster; Oct 21, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Oct 21, 2018, 12:44 pm
#939
Join Date: Nov 2017
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Confirmed that there are no menus for mid-con flights, just longer routes. FA was handed a printed sheet from catering with brief description of choices. Flights were using Airbus aircraft. New faux wood trays, AS salt/pepper packet and the cylindrical glassware (as seen in post 935)
Date: 20 Oct 2018
Route: SFO-DAL
Flight Number: AS1710
Departure time: 0620
Flight Time: 3hours 30 mins
Meal description: Breakfast. FA's printed description "Omelette with onion" Omelette stuffed with melted cheese, diced onion, minced chives, and diced pear. Served with Canadian Bacon, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes. Side of cut fruit, (pineapple, watermelon and two blueberries)
Date: 20 Oct 2018
Route: DAL-SFO
Flight Number: AS1717
Departure time: 1725
Flight Time: 3hours 51 mins
Meal description: Dinner FA's printed description "Rosemary Chicken" Rosemary chicken w/sliced grape and honey sauce, Polenta cake, roasted Brussels Sprouts w/Bacon, warmed bread & butter, pre-packaged Pumpkin Spice Rooons.
Date: 20 Oct 2018
Route: SFO-DAL
Flight Number: AS1710
Departure time: 0620
Flight Time: 3hours 30 mins
Meal description: Breakfast. FA's printed description "Omelette with onion" Omelette stuffed with melted cheese, diced onion, minced chives, and diced pear. Served with Canadian Bacon, Roasted Fingerling Potatoes. Side of cut fruit, (pineapple, watermelon and two blueberries)
Date: 20 Oct 2018
Route: DAL-SFO
Flight Number: AS1717
Departure time: 1725
Flight Time: 3hours 51 mins
Meal description: Dinner FA's printed description "Rosemary Chicken" Rosemary chicken w/sliced grape and honey sauce, Polenta cake, roasted Brussels Sprouts w/Bacon, warmed bread & butter, pre-packaged Pumpkin Spice Rooons.
Oct 21, 2018, 1:49 pm
#940
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: NYC
Posts: 280
Date of Flight: October 20, 2018
Flight Number and Route flown: AS 1011 JFK-SFO
Time of Departure: 7:30am
Length of flight: 6:40
Class of service: First
Had the crepes (other choice was frittata.) New trays and menus were provided. Best breakfast I’ve had by far on Alaska. Bacon was perfectly done and eggs were super fluffy.
Oct 23, 2018, 4:26 pm
#941
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 490
Anyone else completely bored with that wheat roll? It's fine, but it's been with every dinner/lunch for years. Seems to be the one thing they don't change. I guess I need to be more vocal with my Alaska listens surveys
Oct 25, 2018, 8:44 am
#942
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Seattle
Programs: AS
Posts: 2,293
AS 1158
SEA/LAX. 10:10am
breakfast - 2 protein Plate/6 frittata catered
bacon,potato and onion frittata with bacon. Smoothie shot. Pretty sparse tray.
protein plates taken by row 1. We were in 2AC.
passengers in 2DF not happy, as vegetarians they wanted protein plates. FA was not able to offer fruit and cheese as Y had sold all. They made their displeasure known .
wood tray, small wedge of frittata with country ham piece on small plate. Raspberry/blueberry/clove? Smoothie shot.
Crew LA based.
FA spent most of her time fulfilling drink orders from Y. I asked for coffee with Baileys. Drink arrived and she said it was probably cold, as She didn’t want to make a new pot. At least she was honest about it.
Hour later asked for water, never arrived.
SEA/LAX. 10:10am
breakfast - 2 protein Plate/6 frittata catered
bacon,potato and onion frittata with bacon. Smoothie shot. Pretty sparse tray.
protein plates taken by row 1. We were in 2AC.
passengers in 2DF not happy, as vegetarians they wanted protein plates. FA was not able to offer fruit and cheese as Y had sold all. They made their displeasure known .
wood tray, small wedge of frittata with country ham piece on small plate. Raspberry/blueberry/clove? Smoothie shot.
Crew LA based.
FA spent most of her time fulfilling drink orders from Y. I asked for coffee with Baileys. Drink arrived and she said it was probably cold, as She didn’t want to make a new pot. At least she was honest about it.
Hour later asked for water, never arrived.
Oct 28, 2018, 9:47 am
#944
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Location: TUS/PDX
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Posts: 5,798
10/24 LAX-PDX 310p departure: choice of turkey sandwich or the protein plate with turkey, raspberries (or some sort of dried berry thing), that nuclear purple "hummus," swiss cheese (bleh) and something else. Went with the protein plate since I had a dinner meeting.
As an aside, the sandwich smelled good.
Great FA up front on this flight.
As an aside, the sandwich smelled good.
Great FA up front on this flight.
Nov 2, 2018, 7:28 pm
#945
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: SFO
Posts: 487
On F, BNA to SFO. Didn’t like the two choices on the menu, so I asked for the fruit and cheese platter. FA told me that they charge for it unless it’s preordered, is this true? He told me he’ll let it fly this time, but in the future to preorder fruit & cheese platters.