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Temporary COVID-19 catering, effective 25 October 2020 until 19 January 2021, after which normal catering is expected to resume.


Euro Traveller
Breakfast: cereal bar, cookies, and mineral water bottle
Rest of the day: bag of crisps, small packet of pretzels, and mineral water bottle

Tea, coffee, juice available on request


Club Europe
Band 1 Breakfast: paper bag containing a filled croissant, yogurt pot or muffin, and mineral water bottle
Band 1 Rest of the Day: paper bag containing a sandwich, dessert pot, and mineral water bottle
Bands 2 to 4 Breakfast: box containing a filled croissant, yogurt pot, and mineral water bottle
Bands 2 to 4 Rest of the Day: box containing a sandwich, salad pot, dessert pot, and mineral water bottle

Tea, coffee, drinks from the bar including champagne (Nicolas Feuillatte quarter bottles) available on request


World Traveller and World Traveller Plus:
Primary lunch/dinner flight
Primary meal comprises of a tray with hot dish, side salad, bread bag, and mineral water bottle
Secondary meal (breakfast) is a filled croissant, yoghurt pot, and mineral water bottle

Primary breakfast flight
Primary meal comprises of a tray with hot dish, yoghurt, muffin, and mineral water bottle
Secondary meal is a chilled sandwich, bar of chocolate, and mineral water bottle

Tea, coffee, drinks from the bar available on request


Club World:
Primary lunch/dinner flight
Primary meal includes a tablecloth-covered tray with hot dish, salad dish, small side salad, bread bag, cheese, crackers, dessert pot, and mineral water bottle
Secondary meal (breakfast) is a tablecloth-covered tray with a filled croissant, muesli pot, yoghurt pot, and mineral water bottle (served in a box rather than on a tray on 77M return catered flights)
Secondary meal (afternoon tea) is a tablecloth-covered tray with sandwich, cookies, bar of chocolate, and mineral water bottle (served in a box rather than on a tray on 77M return catered flights)

Primary breakfast flight
Primary meal includes a tablecloth-covered tray with hot dish, yoghurt/fruit dish, croissant, bread bag, jam, dessert pot, and mineral water bottle
Secondary meal is a tablecloth-covered tray with sandwich, cookies, bar of chocolate, and mineral water bottle (served in a box rather than on a tray on 77M return catered flights)

Tea, coffee, drinks from the bar including champagne (Nicolas Feuillatte quarter bottles) available on request


First:
Primary lunch/dinner flight
Box containing a salad, starter, pesto, bread bag, crackers, and mineral water bottle. A hot main dish in foil and trio of dessert/cheese pots in cardboard holder are served separately directly onto the tablecloth-covered table
Secondary meal (breakfast) is unconfirmed
Secondary meal (afternoon tea) is a box containing sandwich, fruit salad, crackers, scone, clotted cream, jam, macarons atop the tablecloth-covered table

Primary breakfast flight
Primary breakfast service is unconfirmed
Secondary meal is a box containing sandwich, fruit salad, crackers, scone, clotted cream, jam, macarons atop the tablecloth-covered table

Tea, coffee, drinks from the bar including champagne (Nicolas Feuillatte quarter bottles) available on request
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by DominicB
Does anyone happen to know whether bedding is available at the front of the plane, and, in First, PJs? Any kind of amenity kit (I'd like to brush my teeth before going to sleep....)
Bedding is also back next week
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by mrdisco
Bedding is also back next week
Bedding has been provided on my longhaul flights, because it's all wrapped up anyway. So I don't think this was affected by recent changes. [Unless you mean WT / WTP perhaps?]
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 10:36 am
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From looking at the article that Tobias-UK posted it seems as if only First Class get a hot meal (one of the images looked like a curry with rice). Is that the case, with all other classes on long-haul flights getting cold food?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 10:42 am
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Originally Posted by mrdisco
You will.
Do we know if it will be a reduced /amended selection? Will it be small wine bottles, cans and miniatures only as opposed to wine and champagne poured from standard bottles on the longer flights?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:20 am
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This is a little off topic but totally relevant to my needs in terms of GF food. Does anyone know when M&S T5 is due to reopen?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:24 am
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Originally Posted by Geordie405
From looking at the article that Tobias-UK posted it seems as if only First Class get a hot meal (one of the images looked like a curry with rice). Is that the case, with all other classes on long-haul flights getting cold food?
I believe that on some long range flights WT, WTP and CW will get a heated snack, like a wrap or something. But you’re right in saying F is the only class getting a ‘proper’ hot meal.
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:30 am
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Originally Posted by MFCC
I believe that on some long range flights WT, WTP and CW will get a heated snack, like a wrap or something. But you’re right in saying F is the only class getting a ‘proper’ hot meal.
I better put a link to the old thread in here then (a) because it still applies for a few more days and (b) some aspects appear not to change next week:
Covid-19 : changes to on-board meal / food / beverage service

So yes, it's somewhere like (hypothetically) Denver that is the cut off - the previous hot pizza / toastie / hot burrito box, which was the previous second meal option, is being served to all passengers on these longer flights. I'm guessing the key here is the word "box" since that seems to make all the difference, though I haven't worked out why yet.
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:30 am
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just because its better than what they have now doesnt make this acceptable. wth is this?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:35 am
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Originally Posted by tedcruz
Defiently an improvement on the current offering. Do you think that one can pre-order special meals as they come packaged like the new offering?
I'm thinking of KSML's.
Originally Posted by florens
Also interested to know regarding SPMLs.
Originally Posted by joeninety
As a Coeliac I always have to rely on the special meals provided on long haul. Even when the lounges were open and running at full tilt they couldn't provide a gluten free offering (apart from crisps spirits and wine). Can't rely on picking any up at the airport and it doesn't travel well if you bring your own when connecting to long haul. Medical food requirements aren't a choice,
I am scheduled on some CE flights next week, so I could order a special meal on one of them and see what happens. My chances, I suspect, could be higher if I go for the easiest one, which would be vegetarian, to maximise the chance of it happening. KSML is, I think, going to be a stretch.
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 11:35 am
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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
I am scheduled on some CE flights next week, so I could order a special meal on one of them and see what happens. My chances, I suspect, could be higher if I go for the easiest one, which would be vegetarian, to maximise the chance of it happening. KSML is, I think, going to be a stretch.
This would be grand. Please report back.
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 12:10 pm
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Quantities look pretty mean for long haul

Can not the box be bigger?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 12:15 pm
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I'm afraid that if that's "it" then, sorry, that's pathetic for a long haul meal (regardless of the cabin)
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 12:17 pm
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If LH can offer the full meal experience in F, so can BA. This is nonsense.
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 12:17 pm
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So i have maybe a naive question, but hopefully, someone here is willing to answer. If i can go in a restaurant right now, sit down, have a normal meal, served and cooked by people, have some alcohol, all in normal plates, glasses and metal cutlery, why does then BA have to serve cold food in single-use plastic containers?

Whatever happened to BA's recent plastic pledge?
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Old Jun 11, 2020, 12:21 pm
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I do think the portions could be larger but oh well. Hopefully this will only be for the rest of this year and then we will be back to a more substantial offering.

Apart from alcohol and water, will soft drinks be loaded in Club Europe?
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