Last edit by: Prospero
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
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
COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways
#751
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Not really - you have plenty of traditional recipes of cured turkey breast and leg, smoked beef brisket, etc in both Jewish and Muslim traditions. None of that imposes going for a "pseudo pork" version that focuses on the specific cut which by definition does not exist on a turkey so as to justify creating cheap and disgusting processed meat substitutes.
#752
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Not me though, if its a tasty piece of cheese, I'm normally going back and finishing the block!!
#753
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 373
Rome to Heathrow in Club with the option of chicken sandwiches or cheese and pickle. Tea, coffee and a limited bar service also offered.
#754
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Newcastle/London & Worldwide
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Posts: 818
What constitutes ‘limited bar service’ ? I’ve had at least 3 CE flights per week and all offered a full bar service and all well stocked and very generous second/third/fourth top ups ! Only real difference I’m noticing is the plastic glasses - obviously the longer flights are lacking the hot food but I’m never too hungry on shorter flights anyway.
#755
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 373
The limited bar service was juices, water, tea, coffee and wines. The crew apologised for a catering “issue“.
#756
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Newcastle/London & Worldwide
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#759
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#760
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Posts: 384
Surely now pubs and restaurants are open and the Government is even incentivising us all to "dine out to help out" there is simply no excuse to not getting a hot meal on BA flights where a Club Europe/Club World fare would normally entitle such service?
It is no longer an issue of comparison to other airlines such as Qatar which is relevant - but national posture to the virus, BA's competence to manage its a supply chain and its willingness to treat its customers with the same respect and customer service as a local publican or restauranteur (or even McDonalds!)
It is no longer an issue of comparison to other airlines such as Qatar which is relevant - but national posture to the virus, BA's competence to manage its a supply chain and its willingness to treat its customers with the same respect and customer service as a local publican or restauranteur (or even McDonalds!)
#761
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,190
Earlier in the week I posted pictures of a long haul Club PM meal and "breakfast." Now it's time for First from my LHR-SFO flight - options presented here are the non-veggie versions, there was a veggie option for the main meal, at least, and as before, presented with no real comment or judgement!
The starter... or rather two starters... or salad and starter... or whatevs... the bread comes in a bag inside the box but the wonderful K took it away and brought it back heated! (But out of the bag.) There is also butter in there somewhere...
The heated main...
The dessert... or desserts... pretty much WYSIWYG!
And finally the afternoon/pre-landing meal/snack... or afternoon tea, with or without tea... in the bag on the left are a couple of smallish scones... or smallish scones... depending on how you want to pronounce it. Let's not get started on the order of the clotted cream and jam, please!
Enjoy!
rb211.
The starter... or rather two starters... or salad and starter... or whatevs... the bread comes in a bag inside the box but the wonderful K took it away and brought it back heated! (But out of the bag.) There is also butter in there somewhere...
The heated main...
The dessert... or desserts... pretty much WYSIWYG!
And finally the afternoon/pre-landing meal/snack... or afternoon tea, with or without tea... in the bag on the left are a couple of smallish scones... or smallish scones... depending on how you want to pronounce it. Let's not get started on the order of the clotted cream and jam, please!
Enjoy!
rb211.
Last edited by RB211; Aug 15, 2020 at 3:59 pm Reason: Edited for clarity around veggie options
#762
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 3,061
As an absolute experience, it’s clearly not what you’d expect from F. But as a ‘Covid friendly’ meal and following the principle that ‘F should be a bit more special than everything else’, it does actually look like they’ve made a reasonable effort. If I were travelling now, I’d be ok with it. Partly helped by the fact you got Christmas dinner in August.
#763
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I thought I read on this thread early on but can't find it now, that the COVID catering was for 3 months so now 2 months on do you think BA are planning going back to hot meals in a month or so in CE?
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We could see a change back to a better version of normal catering come the start of the Winter 20/21 season.
Last edited by Genius1; Aug 15, 2020 at 7:20 am
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LOL. You can't really be serious.