What am I doing wrong..Help me ordering my advanced CW meal
Aug 22, 2019, 4:46 am
#1
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What am I doing wrong..Help me ordering my advanced CW meal
Please help with getting our meal reserved. We are within our 30 meal selection time frame, but the reservation system is not showing me a meal selection to choose our meal. It just says the following:
- You will be served complimentary food and drinks on-board. Unfortunately, ordering your meal in advance is not available for this flight.
- Choose meal
- Standard meal - order on board.
Aug 22, 2019, 4:50 am
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You can only pre order outbound from LHR/LGW - are you looking at inbound?
More details in Main Pre Order thread :
The main course pre-order choice thread
More details in Main Pre Order thread :
The main course pre-order choice thread
Aug 22, 2019, 4:52 am
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And when is your flight? The feature sometimes doesn't actually come live exactly when it's supposed to. There is no rush, anyway. If you are supposed to be able to pre-order your main, there is no merit or advantage whether you do that 28 days before the flight or 2 days before the flight. There really is no reason to do this early. The food doesn't get any better if you pick it a long time ahead.
Aug 22, 2019, 4:58 am
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Which route are you flying? Not all routes offer this.
And when is your flight? The feature sometimes doesn't actually come live exactly when it's supposed to. There is no rush, anyway. If you are supposed to be able to pre-order your main, there is no merit or advantage whether you do that 28 days before the flight or 2 days before the flight. There really is no reason to do this early. The food doesn't get any better if you pick it a long time ahead.
And when is your flight? The feature sometimes doesn't actually come live exactly when it's supposed to. There is no rush, anyway. If you are supposed to be able to pre-order your main, there is no merit or advantage whether you do that 28 days before the flight or 2 days before the flight. There really is no reason to do this early. The food doesn't get any better if you pick it a long time ahead.
Aug 22, 2019, 5:03 am
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We are cruising so this was just something I wanted to check off of our to do list as to not have think about it.
Aug 22, 2019, 5:09 am
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It's not just you, thoward8111!
I have a LHR-JFK flight (in J) in the first week of September, which I haven't been able to/still can't see the menu for. I have no problems with other BA routes in September, so something funny (special?!) with JFK?
I have a LHR-JFK flight (in J) in the first week of September, which I haven't been able to/still can't see the menu for. I have no problems with other BA routes in September, so something funny (special?!) with JFK?
Aug 22, 2019, 5:20 am
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Okay... thanks SleepySynapse, that is good to know.
Aug 22, 2019, 6:06 am
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Coincidentally I’ve just checked our pre-order options for LHR-IAD in a couple of weeks. Worked fine, once I got MMB to work!
Certainly sounds like a one-off temporary glitch for the OP. Incidentally, it will be Beef or Chicken!
Certainly sounds like a one-off temporary glitch for the OP. Incidentally, it will be Beef or Chicken!
Aug 22, 2019, 6:22 am
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I haven't been following this closely, but is LHR-JFK still catered by a different company? If so, I wonder whether JFK is special because the caterer on this route hasn't yet finally sorted out September menus, or something like that.
Aug 22, 2019, 7:25 am
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That might explain why the JFK route seems to get better food than the rest of us!