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Can I help you Jan 7, 2018 11:36 am

We have had ice cream before then lost it then got it back then lost it and now it’s back, I see a pattern forming. :)

Flame3601 Jan 7, 2018 11:38 am

Wonder what brand ice creams it will be ? I am happy none the less , hope WT paxs don't mind us CW folk coming in a taking a few back front ...

SussexFly Jan 7, 2018 11:44 am


Originally Posted by Flame3601 (Post 29261919)
Wonder what brand ice creams it will be ? I am happy none the less , hope WT paxs don't mind us CW folk coming in a taking a few back front ...

I’m flying back from ANU the day after this comes in place - I may well have to pinch an ice-cream from WT if I can!

Flame3601 Jan 7, 2018 11:47 am


Originally Posted by SussexFly (Post 29261938)


I’m flying back from ANU the day after this comes in place - I may well have to pinch an ice-cream from WT if I can!

Would be rude not too after all , but probably only 8 would of been loaded in total after in-depth analysis from BA HQ revealed this was the perfect number to eliminate waste and expense - so act fast !

JMurray Jan 7, 2018 11:49 am


Originally Posted by Can I help you (Post 29261647)
The mid flight snack you received on your LAS flight is different from the tuck box, these boxes are in the galley between meals are self help where as the mid flight snack boxes are given out between meals on out longest day flights.

Had one of these on LHR-LAX other day: contains a Twix, packet of Corkers crisps and some popcorn. Must say there's now lots of food in WT/WT+ on the long day flights!

Can I help you Jan 7, 2018 11:50 am

I don’t think you will find icecream on overnight flights so you will be unlucky flying from ANU.

SussexFly Jan 7, 2018 11:50 am


Originally Posted by JMurray (Post 29261962)
Had one of these on LHR-LAX other day: contains a Twix, packet of Corkers crisps and some popcorn. Must say there's now lots of food in WT/WT+ on the long day flights!

more/better than the Club Kitchen?

SussexFly Jan 7, 2018 11:58 am


Originally Posted by Can I help you (Post 29261967)
I don’t think you will find icecream on overnight flights so you will be unlucky flying from ANU.

makes sense I gusss - I can’t see a large number of takers for ice-cream at that time of day.
Although perfect for those who can’t sleep!

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I may actually be a tincy wincy bit jealous of WT 😬

flatlander Jan 7, 2018 12:19 pm

Sounds like a nice little improvement. This member of the crowd would be pleased with an ice cream half way to the US, especially the West Coast.

(now, bring (or offer) them round half way across in CW too :) )

JMurray Jan 7, 2018 12:22 pm


Originally Posted by SussexFly (Post 29261968)


more/better than the Club Kitchen?

Well there's actually enough catered unlike Club Kitchen...

bisonrav Jan 7, 2018 12:48 pm

Bloody hell, thin end of the wedge this. What next? Extra squeeze of turnip in the gruel? DUMPING my IAG shares tomorrow.

IAMORGAN Jan 7, 2018 12:53 pm

All is well with the world.

dddc Jan 7, 2018 1:04 pm


Originally Posted by Ldnn1 (Post 29261773)
Aside from the fact that I personally love ice cream, I also think it works really well as an onboard snack/dessert. Doesn't require any prep, simple to serve (though often too hard) and a general crowd pleaser as c-w-s says. I think the American sundaes in J/F work well too.

I guess the only thing is does it cost a lot to keep frozen, but I'm guessing not given many airlines do it.

Cathay serve them in Y and Y+. I've had them out to Oz and back. Out of Heathrow or Honkers it's been a Haagen Daz tub. Out of Oz it's been Weis ice cream bars a fruit ice and ice cream bar. Both normally come super frozen and I wish they would dish them out with the meal so they'd have time to warm up a bit. Quite often I've had the meal tray taken away to be left with the tub, chipping away with the tiny spoon. On a couple of occasions there's been left over tubs and they've left them with galley snacks (yes, CX has galley snax for Y pax on the longer routes - fruits, crisps, crackers, nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and you a can order a hot noodle snack if you are really hungry).

Stez Jan 7, 2018 1:13 pm

EK does it too. In the past, MH and SQ did it but that's going a while back.

TimmyD Jan 7, 2018 1:27 pm

KA has always served Haagen Dazs in Economy on its short haul flights, and CX always has it on LH. Doesn’t VS do ice cream too?

Of course a lot of us were saddened when ice cream went from the Club Kitchen - will it be coming back?

This is a much needed improvement on LH economy but if I was a BA shareholder I’d be asking serious questions of the clowns in Waterside. As someone else mentioned, Improving the economy catering - along with all the other cuts being reversed - is just going back to the level of service a few years ago, and in the interim the BA brand has been allowed to be royally trashed and tens of thousands of passengers disappointed.


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