Flight comes with dinner if booked on AA?
Oct 17, 2022, 4:57 pm
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Flight comes with dinner if booked on AA?
We just booked the same coach one-way AS flight from DTW-SEA, under 2 different pnrs
When I added their conf codes (AS’s version) to the app, one says meal: dinner under flight details, the other says meal: no meal
available. As far as I knew, there’s only paid meals, any insight to why this shows this way?
one of the flights was booked on AA (as we had trip credits that were expiring). That is the one that says meal:dinner on AS mobile app.
The flights booked with AS miles on AS, says meal: none
When I added their conf codes (AS’s version) to the app, one says meal: dinner under flight details, the other says meal: no meal
available. As far as I knew, there’s only paid meals, any insight to why this shows this way?
one of the flights was booked on AA (as we had trip credits that were expiring). That is the one that says meal:dinner on AS mobile app.
The flights booked with AS miles on AS, says meal: none
Last edited by sea_flyer_17; Oct 17, 2022 at 5:05 pm
Oct 17, 2022, 6:46 pm
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(Both use it but they're different systems, for instance the PNRs in both systems are different if you have an AA booking with AS flights/AS booking with AA flights).
Oct 18, 2022, 1:07 am
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There is no way meal would be served in Y (except for MM, I think 100K receive additional snacks in Y so that counts as well?), flew many times on AS on Transcon/Hawaii routes.
Oct 18, 2022, 5:36 am
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How does one find whether there are meals or snacks served on an AS flight? I understood that this was 670 miles as a base. Is this out of date?
Oct 18, 2022, 6:09 am
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Oct 18, 2022, 10:41 am
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Oct 19, 2022, 5:43 am
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Reminds me to write into AS. Redeye ANC-SEA on Monday had "snack" showing. (Per Expertflyer) Traditionally this meant we got real food. We got... snack basket.
Oct 19, 2022, 8:28 am
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Oct 20, 2022, 10:44 am
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Oct 21, 2022, 9:18 am
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Unless the AA booking includes time travel back to about 2000, nobody will get a meal in coach.
At best, if you are sitting in the forward part of the coach cabin, you will have buy-on-board opportunities. Or you snag some sandwiches in Detroit before boarding...
I can't remember the last time I received a full meal in coach in the continental US. It was probably on Midwest Express or maybe the AA Love Field service around the turn of the century. I don't think it exists anywhere anymore, except maybe the premium transcon services like LA/SF - NYC/DC.
At best, if you are sitting in the forward part of the coach cabin, you will have buy-on-board opportunities. Or you snag some sandwiches in Detroit before boarding...
I can't remember the last time I received a full meal in coach in the continental US. It was probably on Midwest Express or maybe the AA Love Field service around the turn of the century. I don't think it exists anywhere anymore, except maybe the premium transcon services like LA/SF - NYC/DC.
Oct 21, 2022, 9:39 am
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Oh totally agree, not really expecting to get dinner. That said, if I flew and didn't get a dinner, and wanted to raise a stink because the app definitively said I did --- who would i complain to in this situation? (i don't plan to btw, this is more curiosity than a concern)