Prospero

LHR Veggie breakfast. With not one but two potentially shirt destroying roast tomatoes


LCY Healthy option. It's not bad. The hot alternative is not suitable for a family audience!!!


Kent crisps (15g). Curse those 09:35 departures!!


LGW Veggie breakfast. At the moment this is my favourite of them all. Beneath the green foil was a piping hot frittata, spinach, and grilled tomato. Apologies the camera just wasn’t quick enough!

edi-traveller

Awesome piece of work Prospero.

There are mushrooms on the Scottish breakfasts as well.

hugolover

I wouldn't mind a pic of the continental breakfast!

shefgab

Thanks for revamping the guide Prospero! Great job ^

On my past few CE flights (JER/FCO/MUC/ZAG, so bands 1, 2 & 3 during Nov/Dec/Jan), Cointreau and Southern Comfort were not available, and I was told that they had been removed.

I'm sure that others will have been cut too, so it'd be great for a crew member to perhaps to an inventory for us for an updated list? Shame to see the list of spirits being whittled away.

CE must be the only cabin that doesn't have a drinks list available onboard (Y has the mini menu in the magazine, longhual F & J gets a proper menu). Coming back from DBV last year, I ordered a Cointreau and was told that they wasn't sure if they had any (thankfully they did, hidden away at the back of the trolley)...apparently no one ever asked for them. I guess people don't ask, as there is no drinks list available. BA must therefore assume customers want these enhanced away as none are ordered

Littlegirl

I am going to try and note down the stock on my next few flights.
I try to avoid Band 4s though, so it may take me a while!!!

shefgab

Thanks Littlegirl! :-:

pacenotes

Anyone know what is offered on the Gatwick to Marrakech flight?

Its a band 4 flight, Im in ET at the moment but according to above we wont get a hot meal as there is none out of Gatwick? I might just upgrade to CE as its a 4 hour flight....

Skipcool3

No hot catering even on Band 4 flights from Gatwick in ET
It's an enhanced wrap.
Worth upgrading if there is an offer on, as that guarantees full meal service.

Rumour has it that the little used ovens at the back of the 737s are worth more than the rest of the plane.......(!)

Sixth Freedom

Extremely informative and well presented. Thanks Prospero, Littlegirl, BotB, haasha and HIDDY. ^

I have a BCN-LHR dinner departure coming up which I am quite looking forward to now!

ianwall

Awesome guide ... this is my favourite part of the dashboard.

I'm doing some Dinner Band 2 LHR CE flights soon. Are there any special meals that would mean a hot meal rather than salad?

I had booked a child meal, as thought that would mean something hot with beans / chips? Any other suggestions?

Littlegirl

No Band 2 flights are always a salad style offering due to the flight times usually or sometimes being short. The special meals will also be cold.

Don't book a child meal as on flights where a salad is served the child's meal is sandwiches usually. It would only be hot on a Band 3 or 4 plus you might feel awkward using coloured plastic cutlery.

orbitmic

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but in the OP, what does "0:90 hours" (used as the threshold between band 1 and band 2) stand for?? Is that 54 minutes? Is it 90 minutes but if so that is longer than the 1h25 of the second band? Again my apologies if this should be self-evident and beyond that question, well-done on yet another brilliant thread!

Also a small point on the breakfast, many early band 1/2/3 flights which have spent the night at the outstation do not get the filled croissant in Y but an alternative (like a soft bread sandwich for instance). And I can confirm that unfortunately, from LGW, band 3 does not have the filled flatbread/salad choice but instead still the double urban whatever wrap, most of which are poor and very mayonnaise-y except the harrisa chicken which is nice!

Littlegirl

These are the Bands

Band 1 Under 89 minutes
Band 2 90 – 114 minutes
Band 3 115 – 179 minutes
Band 4 180 minutes and over

I think maybe they need adjusting in that post to be just in mins.

You need to use the scheduled time when looking at which Band your flight falls into.
Some flights regularly are very much shorter than the schedule, for instance NCE and CPH and the crew often struggle to get the Band 3 service completed when the min crew are rostered. Then there are flights that are long going one direction, when the wind is bad but short going the other way, BER for example, the other day over 2 hours out but just 1hr 10 coming home but I digress!!

orbitmic

Thanks Littlegirl!!

Prospero

Thank-you both Opening post has been corrected.