Late Night HND-LAX - Inflight Service?
Sep 29, 2017, 11:47 am
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Late Night HND-LAX - Inflight Service?
I remember reading comments a year or so ago that the late evening HND-LAX flight had little or no inflight service - no meal to speak of, just a light snack.
Is this still the case, or did the service get upgraded to a proper full meal with on-demand inflight snacks and pre-arrival breakfast?
Is this still the case, or did the service get upgraded to a proper full meal with on-demand inflight snacks and pre-arrival breakfast?
Sep 29, 2017, 12:21 pm
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I remember reading comments a year or so ago that the late evening HND-LAX flight had little or no inflight service - no meal to speak of, just a light snack.
Is this still the case, or did the service get upgraded to a proper full meal with on-demand inflight snacks and pre-arrival breakfast?
Is this still the case, or did the service get upgraded to a proper full meal with on-demand inflight snacks and pre-arrival breakfast?
See
https://www.ana.co.jp/int/inflight/g...c_201709_m.pdf
English menu in 2nd page.
Sep 29, 2017, 12:26 pm
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So basically I need to mix and match my own collection of snacks and such until breakfast - they really should offer proper meal service, or at least allow customers to pre-order it vs catering the whole cabin if they feel most might decline full dinner.
Sep 30, 2017, 2:10 pm
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Light meal service used to make sense when the flight left after midnight. Now it's moved to 22:55, which is not too late to enjoy a full meal right after take-off given the flight length. SYD flight (22:00) or YVR (21:50) gets a full meal.
Oct 1, 2017, 12:05 am
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Thanks for this thread. I'm on the HND-LAX flight in a couple weeks and didn't realize there was no true meal service after takeoff. I'm rather surprised they don't offer a structured snack type of meal with appetizer, salad, entree, dessert.
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Oct 1, 2017, 4:15 am
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Thanks for this thread. I'm on the HND-LAX flight in a couple weeks and didn't realize there was no true meal service after takeoff. I'm rather surprised they don't offer a structured snack type of meal with appetizer, salad, entree, dessert.
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Oct 1, 2017, 5:55 pm
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Thanks for this thread. I'm on the HND-LAX flight in a couple weeks and didn't realize there was no true meal service after takeoff. I'm rather surprised they don't offer a structured snack type of meal with appetizer, salad, entree, dessert.
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
I was on NH802 SIN-NRT in F with a 6am departure and the catering was truly depressing. A "petite" breakfast followed by anytime light dishes. No real meal on a 7-hour daytime flight in F
Oct 8, 2017, 11:13 pm
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Thanks for this thread. I'm on the HND-LAX flight in a couple weeks and didn't realize there was no true meal service after takeoff. I'm rather surprised they don't offer a structured snack type of meal with appetizer, salad, entree, dessert.
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
Would it be gauche of me to ask them to create a meal, say, of a garden salad, dashi soup, the tuna/cheese focaccia and a cheese plate soon after the initial beverage service?
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Oct 9, 2017, 4:55 am
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I presume all this discussion pertains to premium class (seeing as the above link is a biz class menu). So if there's no meal after take-off in J for this flight, does this mean there's no dinner in coach either? That seems wrong for such a long flight. EVA and CX always serve full dinners in Y on long-haul red-eyes, whether the flight leaves at midnight or 2am. In my experience, at least half the passengers are typically awake to accept the dinner even at that hour. Even DL served a full dinner after take-off when they used to have a ~10pm SEA-HND flight.
http://www.ana.co.jp/int/inflight/gu...y_201709_m.pdf
Oct 9, 2017, 4:53 pm
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Also, feel free to ring the flight attendants whenever and however many times you like for snack requests and drink refills... You're not dealing with the UA grumpy grannies.