paulaf

Just read this on Head for Points, good news some improvements:
Someone at BA has clearly read this post today… from 16 June enhanced catering will be introduced!!

Now don’t all get excited at once… it’ll still be prepackaged cold food. But J/F will get a nicer ‘box meal’ than W/M (which won’t be differentiated). And second meals will also be served on long flights.

Booze is back!!! Albeit not available in ET. CE/CW will have the same quarter-bottles of wine so slightly less choice than normal, but at least it will be there on request.

corporate-wage-slave

That sounds similar to post 406 above.

paulaf

Yes it does but this mentions CE whereas 406 wasn't sure. All good news.

crazyarmadillo

You source was right!! Now we just need lounge info... .. just joking, im sure they will be back in the near future. I'm still guessing July time, as long as things do no get worse.

Thanks for posting!

mrdisco

Some more info from source:

Meals will be served in a box to allow the box in its entirety to be discarded afterwards, no need for crew to be touching plates etc. It will be interesting to see how premium these meals look,

CE will receive packaged sandwiches, a dessert and water. Longer bands will receive a cold meal. Alcohol available on request after take off.

‘ambient snacks’ will be available in the Club Kitchen.

Apparently the pictures of the new service don’t look too bad...!

jackr27

Well it sounds authentic. It wouldn't be a BA meal if it didn't involve an ambient snack.

BAeuro

Is this the long term solution for CE? A sandwich and dessert isn’t very substantial as a replacement for a hot meal, dessert, salad and roll. Still it’s an improvement on the what we have now.

mrdisco

This is all supposed to be short term in response to COVID, HOWEVER if it’s cheaper for BA to produce then I don’t see them quickly changing back to how things used to be - this could be the new normal.

samfrost93

Let's give them a little bit of credit... people said the same thing about the initial COVID food offering, but it didn't take them long to launch a better offering.

ENTP

Err... nearly three months?

lavender1365

No, I am not giving them credit. They will contract with someone to prepare these sorry packages and will serve them as long as the contract is in place. So no, I do not suspect these to be phased out soon. I am disappointed with BA to treat their customers that way. And public in general. With unemployment soaring, you would think more jobs would be offered to clean, to prepare healthy alternative, to do whatever to ensure safe handled food. Would I pay premium for that? Absolutely. I do expect the cost of travel to go up. But when I pay for CW or F and then CE ticket I expect something from airline. If it is safe to hand me a wrapped tray then this tray can be filled with healthy, heated meal option which can be assembled by the crew and delivered to my place. I would not be offended if flying in F I got at least an option similar to CW for the time being. But the choices and the look has to be there. And all of it can be delivered to us in one trip. Plus they could do a pre-order online , that way crew would be able to just distribute our way meals we ordered ahead of time.

Tobias-UK

BA has announced it's new COVID-19 friendly catering, as this is now confirmed I've started a new topic away from the speculation discussion:

COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways