What Food to Expect? (LHR-PHX daytime Business)
Jun 25, 2019, 3:29 am
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Standard procedure on 9am and later flights out of CDG is the meal service begins about an hour after take off. Probably the same out of LHR.
Last edited by Dallas49er; Jun 25, 2019 at 10:03 am
Jun 25, 2019, 3:40 am
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I would focus on the food offerings in the various OneWorld lounges available to you at LHR T3 by virtue of flying in the business cabin. You don’t have to stick with just the Admirals Club. Onboard catering TATL can be less glamorous than the bloggy types make it out to be (ie LH F catering will differ greatly from AA’s J meals).
Rumor has it AA Flagship Lounge is in Rehab.
The BA lounge puts on an excellent breakfast.
CX, if it is similar to CDG, might be a bit sparse.
Agree, food on board probably will not live up to blogger reviews.
Recommend you get to LHR early, go to one or two of the lounges, and NOT get on the plane hungry.
No knowledge on Qantas lounge
Jun 25, 2019, 1:01 pm
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Excellent Suggestion!
Rumor has it AA Flagship Lounge is in Rehab.
The BA lounge puts on an excellent breakfast.
CX, if it is similar to CDG, might be a bit sparse.
Agree, food on board probably will not live up to blogger reviews.
Recommend you get to LHR early, go to one or two of the lounges, and NOT get on the plane hungry.
No knowledge on Qantas lounge
I believe the current recommendations for LHR T3 lounges is CX>QF>BA>AA. But if you have enough time, try all 4 and compare.
Jun 25, 2019, 5:33 pm
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That was our choices last week on our LHR-LAX flight. I opted for the lamb and my wife went for the chicken. If I were you, I would follow up on the advice already given and eat in the lounges beforehand. We stopped off at the QANTAS lounge first and had a buffet breakfast so that my wife could get a flat white coffee from the barista upstairs and then popped next door to Cathy for some dim sum.
If I had known that the food on board was so dire, I would have pigged out more in the lounges and maybe grabbed a bacon butty or two from the BA lounge. I achieved hero status with my wife as I had stuck my head into the AA lounge on the walk to the gate and had loaded up a doggie bag of caramels from the candy ledge, so my wife didn’t go hungry on the flight. I had even asked the FA as to when they would be setting up the inflight snack area as I was getting peckish myself mid flight.
The pre-arrival “sandwich” was pretty dire too!
If I had known that the food on board was so dire, I would have pigged out more in the lounges and maybe grabbed a bacon butty or two from the BA lounge. I achieved hero status with my wife as I had stuck my head into the AA lounge on the walk to the gate and had loaded up a doggie bag of caramels from the candy ledge, so my wife didn’t go hungry on the flight. I had even asked the FA as to when they would be setting up the inflight snack area as I was getting peckish myself mid flight.
The pre-arrival “sandwich” was pretty dire too!
Jun 26, 2019, 8:07 am
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That was our choices last week on our LHR-LAX flight. I opted for the lamb and my wife went for the chicken. If I were you, I would follow up on the advice already given and eat in the lounges beforehand. We stopped off at the QANTAS lounge first and had a buffet breakfast so that my wife could get a flat white coffee from the barista upstairs and then popped next door to Cathy for some dim sum.
If I had known that the food on board was so dire, I would have pigged out more in the lounges and maybe grabbed a bacon butty or two from the BA lounge. I achieved hero status with my wife as I had stuck my head into the AA lounge on the walk to the gate and had loaded up a doggie bag of caramels from the candy ledge, so my wife didn’t go hungry on the flight. I had even asked the FA as to when they would be setting up the inflight snack area as I was getting peckish myself mid flight.
The pre-arrival “sandwich” was pretty dire too!
Potential *:If the LHR CX lounge is like the CDG CX lounge, dim sum and noodles (excellent IMHO) start at 10 am.
I’ll be doing a T3 lounge tour at the end of November, and a BA T5 tour in September. Do not plan on getting on either plane hungry or thirsty.
Last edited by Dallas49er; Jun 26, 2019 at 8:13 am
Jun 26, 2019, 1:58 pm
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Great update.
Potential *:If the LHR CX lounge is like the CDG CX lounge, dim sum and noodles (excellent IMHO) start at 10 am.
I’ll be doing a T3 lounge tour at the end of November, and a BA T5 tour in September. Do not plan on getting on either plane hungry or thirsty.
My next trip trip through LHR will be early in the New Year and will be a BA F flight, so I’m planning on doing all 7 lounges there to stave off airborne starvation (assuming that the AA F lounge is still that and not a Flagship lounge)
Jun 26, 2019, 2:13 pm
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The seat map will show you the Super Diamond, all forward-facing seats, and in general all LHR 772's are this model, but it does happen that they get swapped out. LHR-PHX is often operated by the day before's 142 from JFK-LHR and last Saturday that switched to Zodiac (reverse and forward facing seats) at a few hours before departure.
The food is a standard LHR lunch menu, with two mini-pies as the snack before landing (which look very lonely on the plate, but are much tastier than the awful mini-pizza or dreadful Croque Monsieur).
The food is a standard LHR lunch menu, with two mini-pies as the snack before landing (which look very lonely on the plate, but are much tastier than the awful mini-pizza or dreadful Croque Monsieur).
Jun 27, 2019, 3:35 am
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Jun 27, 2019, 2:04 pm
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The seat map will show you the Super Diamond, all forward-facing seats, and in general all LHR 772's are this model, but it does happen that they get swapped out. LHR-PHX is often operated by the day before's 142 from JFK-LHR and last Saturday that switched to Zodiac (reverse and forward facing seats) at a few hours before departure.
The food is a standard LHR lunch menu, with two mini-pies as the snack before landing (which look very lonely on the plate, but are much tastier than the awful mini-pizza or dreadful Croque Monsieur).
The food is a standard LHR lunch menu, with two mini-pies as the snack before landing (which look very lonely on the plate, but are much tastier than the awful mini-pizza or dreadful Croque Monsieur).