Jul 28, 2022, 10:54 am
Long haul in-flight catering | World Traveller
Sep 21, 2022, 3:35 am
#151
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 35
Recently flew from Gatwick to Orlando. The first meal choice was either chicken tikka and rice or bean chilli with rice. Second meal was either a hot wrap filled with chicken tikka or mozzarella and tomato. They must have had bought a bulk amount of chicken tikka for both meals to offer it.
Sep 21, 2022, 3:47 am
#152
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 41
Does anyone know what the 'light meal' (second meal) breakfast choice is for overnight J services out of LHR (>10 hours, landing in the morning local time)? Will this always be a choice including the CE full English breakfast equivalent, or is it possible that the breakfast will very light and consist of a wrap or pastry?
Sep 21, 2022, 3:52 am
#153
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,562
Does anyone know what the 'light meal' (second meal) breakfast choice is for overnight J services out of LHR (>10 hours, landing in the morning local time)? Will this always be a choice including the CE full English breakfast equivalent, or is it possible that the breakfast will very light and consist of a wrap or pastry?
Oct 8, 2022, 2:06 pm
#157
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Canada
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 1,254
as a follow up to this post…I ended up emailing to complain. Got the form letter response about how they can’t load enough for everyone to have their first choice (note: my complaint was there wasn’t enough for everyone to get anything let alone first choice). Anyway, they proactively gave me 10k avios. Whether they ever appear is anyomes guess as I’ve had it before that the avios were never deposited.
Oct 26, 2022, 3:30 pm
#158
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Flatland
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold 1MM, BA Gold, UA Peon
Posts: 6,111
Meals LHR-LAS in WT in October 2022. I was actually quite impressed, especially with the second meal. Having had a very tiny sandwich LHR-BOS earlier in the year, my expectations were so low I bought a sandwich from Starbucks to eat in-flight for the second meal.As it turned out, the meals were both quite reasonable. The catering provider was Do&Co.
The main meal: Chicken Chasseur with mash and beans. The bread roll was pretty decent. The salad was finely diced vegetables and quinoa with a seemingly yoghurt-based dressing in the bottom of the pot. It was quite reasonable. The main meal looks a bit bland but was actually quite tasty and well-cooked (aircraft was an A350, so probably had fairly new oven design). The chocolate pot was a fairly simple creamy chocolate pudding.
The second meal: Thai Red Curry with rice. The salad pot was diced beets and vegetables, again with dressing in the bottom. Some passengers treated it with great suspicion but I found it to be edible. The curry was pretty tasty despite looking pretty simple. It was made with actual spices (also authentic curry sauce: the label warned of crustaceans), and was the quality of a good microwave meal (which is about what I expect in economy cabins). The dessert pot was quite OK.
Overall, as back-of-the-bus catering goes, it was good.
Chicken Chasseur with Potato Mash & Green Beans
Thai Red Chicken Curry with Rice.
The main meal: Chicken Chasseur with mash and beans. The bread roll was pretty decent. The salad was finely diced vegetables and quinoa with a seemingly yoghurt-based dressing in the bottom of the pot. It was quite reasonable. The main meal looks a bit bland but was actually quite tasty and well-cooked (aircraft was an A350, so probably had fairly new oven design). The chocolate pot was a fairly simple creamy chocolate pudding.
The second meal: Thai Red Curry with rice. The salad pot was diced beets and vegetables, again with dressing in the bottom. Some passengers treated it with great suspicion but I found it to be edible. The curry was pretty tasty despite looking pretty simple. It was made with actual spices (also authentic curry sauce: the label warned of crustaceans), and was the quality of a good microwave meal (which is about what I expect in economy cabins). The dessert pot was quite OK.
Overall, as back-of-the-bus catering goes, it was good.
Chicken Chasseur with Potato Mash & Green Beans
Thai Red Chicken Curry with Rice.
Oct 26, 2022, 4:00 pm
#159
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 400
Chicken chasseur served in WT LHR-BOS earlier this month. Tasted far better than it looked and came with a small quinoa based salad, a bread roll, cheese & crackers and a small (although very nice) chocolate pot.
Second “meal” was a pretty pathetic vegetarian pastry (there may have been chicken too, but vegetarian was all they had by the time they reached the rear section of economy on the upper deck of the A380).
Oct 26, 2022, 4:07 pm
#160
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,562
Clearly the hot second meal is for the US longer-haul long hauls. The chicken chasseur is pretty tasty - and sufficient (although it feel that everything had been downsized by 10%).
Note to self though: take my spork - the wooden cutlery is awful (and probably just ends up in landfill as did the plastic).
Note to self though: take my spork - the wooden cutlery is awful (and probably just ends up in landfill as did the plastic).
Oct 26, 2022, 4:48 pm
#161
Join Date: May 2009
Location: London
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 2,741
Oct 26, 2022, 5:57 pm
#162
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Flatland
Programs: AA Lifetime Gold 1MM, BA Gold, UA Peon
Posts: 6,111
Clearly the hot second meal is for the US longer-haul long hauls. The chicken chasseur is pretty tasty - and sufficient (although it feel that everything had been downsized by 10%).
Note to self though: take my spork - the wooden cutlery is awful (and probably just ends up in landfill as did the plastic).
Note to self though: take my spork - the wooden cutlery is awful (and probably just ends up in landfill as did the plastic).
Oct 27, 2022, 2:24 am
#163
Join Date: Jul 2022
Location: Inverness
Programs: BA
Posts: 34
That’s promising!
How was the drinks service on the LHR-LAS leg? Pre-covid we experienced multiple occasions a few hours in when they had ‘run out’ of booze. We don’t go on any kind of bender onboard but we do enjoy a wine or whisky throughout the flight.
How was the drinks service on the LHR-LAS leg? Pre-covid we experienced multiple occasions a few hours in when they had ‘run out’ of booze. We don’t go on any kind of bender onboard but we do enjoy a wine or whisky throughout the flight.
Nov 11, 2022, 6:16 pm
#165
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Diamond
Posts: 7,775
I've just flown Main Cabin Extra on AA to LAX.
Didn't bother eating but some chicken / pasta options.
Drinks run.
Ice cream tub about 4hrs or so out.
Pizza roll or something in a sausage roll sized box around 1hr out followed by a drinks run.
Snacks were pretzels, Walkers shortbread fingers, some brownie bars and crisps. Loads of them in the galley.
Practically zero crew interaction from boarding to departing.
Didn't bother eating but some chicken / pasta options.
Drinks run.
Ice cream tub about 4hrs or so out.
Pizza roll or something in a sausage roll sized box around 1hr out followed by a drinks run.
Snacks were pretzels, Walkers shortbread fingers, some brownie bars and crisps. Loads of them in the galley.
Practically zero crew interaction from boarding to departing.