You have a very high upgrade rate considering your status! Are you sure your'e not going to just keep going for 75k this year? :D Also the lukewarm snickerdoodles are common on the supper flights. Those flights don't serve hot meals. I think the procedure for most flights is they heat up the meals and put the cookies in after just to warm in the residual heat, but they don't have that on late evening flights, so they end up just putting them in the over for a few minutes and not long enough to really heat up.

AFAIK, I have taken my last AS flight of the year :eek: The cookie was still good and I had half of it, which was more than I was planning on having.

I just read last night that they will be changing the menus again soon, if they haven't already.

-J.

Had the newish menu this morning SJC-HNL (sorry, no pics). Ordered the scrambled eggs and Portuguese sausage plate. The eggs were really creamy and actually quite good, and a it was a decent portion of sausage which was also tasty. It came with a few sliced potatoes on the side. What I noticed is that there was no Ellenos yogurt or fruit bowl - instead, it was now a bowl of yogurt, with a applesauce consistency pineapple sauce on top, with 2 slices of kiwi stuck into that. There was a tiny paper cup of chocolate granola to mix in on the side.

Got a snickerdoodle cookie mid flight and the snack basket about an hour out.

This was on offer on BWI to SEA last Thursday. Thought about it but then decided surf and turf from an airplane galley was probably not going to be up to standard. Had the BBQ burger instead which was quite good. It had that burrata/caprese dish as well which was first time for me. Very, very good IMO.

I haven't had either and didn't see anyone post about the jerk chicken. A quick Google search turned up this...complete with some pics. I opted for the jerk chicken, seeing that the steak and shrimp was getting a lot of mediocre reviews on here.

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Both turned out to be quite tasty, it was on the ORD-SFO flight. I had mostly the BBQ bacon burger, my wife mostly the jerk chicken. She had actually ordered the mediterranean lentils, but Alaska was out of it, so she got some miles as an apology.

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That dessert seems rather cagey!

Southwest Ranchero Eggs on SAN-IAD this morning. Good service and a pass of the snack basket before landing. The egg dish was very slightly spicy and I enjoyed it.

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For follow up. The Peruvian steak over rice is essentially the beef stir fry over noodles with the beef over rice without the flavor.

Next time will choose the chicken or burger.

Pulled pork breakfast scramble, IAD-SEA this morning. Very good execution - the pork was tender; the eggs were creamy, as promised in the description. The croissant was mediocre, but my expectations there were low. Friendly service; snack basket went around before landing with verbal encouragement to "take as much as you want", which is always appreciated.

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Pulled pork breakfast scramble - pork carnitas, scrambled eggs, peppers and onions, potatoes, salsa. Served with croissant, yogurt and granola.

Thanks for the review and picture! I was eyeing that, so now have it pre-ordered for my next AS flight. :tu:

Nov. 9, 2023 AS 274 ANC-SEA

This was what the F FA called the "Intermittant Fasting" flight. The flight should have been catered at SEA. The FA's were told it would be catered at ANC. AS has not had catering at ANC in DECADES!! So, no food onboard for either cabin heading South. The F FA was dealt a bad hand and made the best of it. She explained our situation while still at ANC and brought levity to what could have an upsetting situation.

Once in the air, all drink requests were filled promptly and the Snack Basket came out until there was nothing left. Our FA has over 40 years with AS and her positive attitude before and during the flight turned hat could have been an awful flight into one that was actully enjoyable.

Note already sent to Alaska Listens praising her positive attitude and care for her PAX!!!

I guess I don't understand the logic here...with so many F meal flights out of ANC to SEA, LAX, ORD, HNL, etc., why wouldn't there be catering? With every flight being double catered, I can see how easy this could happen. Kudos to the FA for making lemonade out of lemons but those passengers in F are due at least some small compensation which hopefully happened directly from the flight crew.

Thanks for that. Was interested to see how the Jerk Chicken tastes, as that's my choice on my IAD/SFO return on the 24th of NOV.
Anyone have a review/pics of the Parmesan Eggs? That's my meal choice on the outbound next Monday. Thanks!

Had the steak and shrimp today from JFK-SFO. Got. 2 pieces of french bread and so did everyone else in my row. Mine came out medium rare and warm, but wasn't a very tender cut of meat. It would be disappointing in a steakhouse but it's about what you'd find at a Chili's so I found it perfectly acceptable. It's hard to do a steak right in the sky so I'm pleased they tried and it wasn't awful. It's probably not something I would order again - I'd like to try the burger or jerk chicken next time, but I wouldn't be disappointed if those choices were unavailable and this was the only choice left. The bruschetta with burrata was actually my favorite part of the meal.