Nov 14, 2015, 11:21 am
Last edit by: flyoff
The facility to choose your main course meal before you fly (when travelling First, Club World and World Traveller Plus) is available on the following routes on flights departing from London:
London Heathrow to Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chengdu, Chicago, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Doha, Dubai, Durban, Hong Kong, Houston, Hyderabad, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madras, Mexico, Miami, Montreal, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Narita, Nassau, New York (JFK and Newark), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio De Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (California), Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo (Haneda and Narita), Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington DC.
London Gatwick to Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Cancun, Cape Town, Costa Rica, New York (JFK), Kingston, Lima, Male, Mauritius, Orlando, Punta Cana, Saint Lucia, San Jose (Costa Rica), Tampa, and Trinidad and Tobago
Meal selection will be from the on-board menu; pre-selection is available between 30 days and 24 hours before your flight
Meal selection is only for the main course of the main meal. However, you can click on the menu link to see the full main meal menu.
Starters and desserts cannot be pre-ordered. Items from the second meals cannot be viewed or pre-ordered.
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London Heathrow to Accra, Amman, Atlanta, Austin, Bahrain, Baltimore, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Boston, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Chengdu, Chicago, Dallas, Delhi, Denver, Doha, Dubai, Durban, Hong Kong, Houston, Hyderabad, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lagos, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Madras, Mexico, Miami, Montreal, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, Narita, Nassau, New York (JFK and Newark), Philadelphia, Phoenix, Rio De Janeiro, Riyadh, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (California), Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tehran, Tel Aviv, Tokyo (Haneda and Narita), Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington DC.
London Gatwick to Antigua, Barbados, Bermuda, Cancun, Cape Town, Costa Rica, New York (JFK), Kingston, Lima, Male, Mauritius, Orlando, Punta Cana, Saint Lucia, San Jose (Costa Rica), Tampa, and Trinidad and Tobago
Meal selection will be from the on-board menu; pre-selection is available between 30 days and 24 hours before your flight
Meal selection is only for the main course of the main meal. However, you can click on the menu link to see the full main meal menu.
Starters and desserts cannot be pre-ordered. Items from the second meals cannot be viewed or pre-ordered.
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The main course pre-order choice thread
Feb 13, 2019, 9:45 am
#1726
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Feb 13, 2019, 10:08 am
#1727
Join Date: Sep 2014
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BA273 London to San Diego 13:45 in Feb
Starters
Prawn cocktail with baby gem and Marie rose sauce
Roasted butternut squash and red onion tartlet, Granny Smith apple salad, truffle mayo
Celeriac cream soup with soused black currants
Fresh Seasonal salad of shredded kale, bulgur wheat, pear and pomegranate served with your choice of Honey Mustard Dressing or Creamy tarragon dressing
Main
Seared sea trout, brown shrimp butter, sage and hispy cabbage
Braised Irish Ox cheek, pearl barley and chanterelles risotto and green beans
Stracciatella and black truffle tortelloni with leek velouté
Dessert
Raspberry cremeux
Chocolate & Salted Caramel Millie Feuille
Black cherry frangipane with vanilla crème anglaise
Blueberries and raspberries
Orsom Lester Vintage Red,Somerset Camembert,Fourme D'Ambert served with pecan nuts, biscuit and fig relish
As as a non cheese eater I have to say the above options aren’t inspiring for a winter flight of that duration. Some of the other menus shown look really appetising.
The butternut squash tart was probably one of the best dishes I've had on a flight for quite some time, full of flavour!
Wish I'd gone for the fish instead of the pasta, as it was really bad. Not quite sure how they managed to achieve the textures they did on the pasta dish but I definitely wouldn't recommend having it.
For dessert I had the black cherry frangipane, which was served warm. Really nice dessert, reminded me of a cherry bakewell tart!
Feb 13, 2019, 11:20 am
#1728
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Feb 13, 2019, 11:25 am
#1729
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I'm interested in your menu report as I have the same menu as you in a couple of days (was going to have the soup and I believe pre-ordered the same main!)
Feb 13, 2019, 11:25 am
#1730
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The ravioli was also very tasty, but I could not discern the Gorgonzola. Nonetheless, a very tasty dish.
Last edited by Tobias-UK; Feb 13, 2019 at 11:32 am
Feb 13, 2019, 11:38 am
#1731
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Feb 13, 2019, 2:02 pm
#1732
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That's perfect - you literally ordered everything I was planning to! (or will if you also picked the rhubarb ginger timbale and the cheese plate!)
Feb 13, 2019, 7:09 pm
#1735
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Feb 14, 2019, 8:33 am
#1737
Join Date: Dec 2014
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I think February having less than 30 days seems to generate discrepancies, I'd wait a day or two and then contact BA if it's still not there.
Feb 14, 2019, 8:43 am
#1738
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I think February having less than 30 days seems to generate discrepancies, I'd wait a day or two and then contact BA if it's still not there.
Feb 14, 2019, 8:50 am
#1739
Join Date: Feb 2009
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There were definite discrepancies last year and the menus were posted about 3 days later than they should have been but it was all fine in the end
Feb 14, 2019, 10:05 am
#1740
Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 135
In any event, what's the rush? It makes no difference whatsoever whether you order your main course 28 days before or 2 days before the flight. They're not going to run out of pre-order capacity and tell you that there's no soup for you. So it doesn't matter whether you wait a day or two, or wait a week or two.