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COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways

Old Oct 24, 2020, 7:26 am
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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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COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways

Old Sep 19, 2020, 1:18 pm
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Originally Posted by Prospero
Folks, I must appeal to your better nature and ask for greater consideration to our members who are following this thread seeking information about the onboard "rations" at this present time. So please can we improve the noise:signal ratio and align the discussion to the thread's topic.

Your assistance is much appreciated.

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Rephrased as : "Do all the worldwide visitors to this thread who wish to find out about BA's onboard service in the Covid-era really want to read witterings on the heritage of sliced bread ?

Please stay on topic.
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Old Sep 19, 2020, 2:06 pm
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Do you think at this moment they really can accommodate customers with special dietary needs? I contacted them via Twitter and asked for Vegan meal for my next-month LHR-MLE flight and they told me they noted my request.

This is the answer I got:

I have requested the vegetarian vegan meals for you on both flights between LHR-MLE. Meals can't be requested on the LHR-MAD sectors, however, you are welcome to bring food on board with you, if you wish.
We'll see what's inside my box. I'll keep you informed
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 12:22 am
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Originally Posted by Pickash
Do you think at this moment they really can accommodate customers with special dietary needs? I contacted them via Twitter and asked for Vegan meal for my next-month LHR-MLE flight and they told me they noted my request.

This is the answer I got:



We'll see what's inside my box. I'll keep you informed
If you are strictly vegan it might be prudent to take adequate supplies with you just in case the vegan meal is not provided and the on board vegetarian option is unsuitable for your dietary requirements. That’s a long flight to go without a meal!
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 1:38 am
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It’s past the mid September announcement timeframe for a refresh and hopefully a reintroduction of somewhat normal service at least. Has something happened or changed? I thought that BA would respond to Virgin on this front by now?

Any sources of info that can let us know if there is an end to the tunnel? CWS?

Please!!
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 1:57 am
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Originally Posted by Foofighter69
It’s past the mid September announcement timeframe for a refresh and hopefully a reintroduction of somewhat normal service at least. Has something happened or changed? I thought that BA would respond to Virgin on this front by now?

Any sources of info that can let us know if there is an end to the tunnel? CWS?

Please!!
What are Virgin doing?
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 2:11 am
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Originally Posted by allturnleft
What are Virgin doing?
https://www.headforpoints.com/2020/0...-improvements/
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 2:15 am
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Originally Posted by Foofighter69
It’s past the mid September announcement timeframe for a refresh and hopefully a reintroduction of somewhat normal service at least. Has something happened or changed? I thought that BA would respond to Virgin on this front by now?

Any sources of info that can let us know if there is an end to the tunnel? CWS?

Please!!
The HfP article stated at least 4 months from mid-June. Where have you got mid-September from?
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 3:32 am
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Question

Originally Posted by Genius1
The HfP article stated at least 4 months from mid-June. Where have you got mid-September from?
IIRC a BA staffer (or insider) mentioned the COVID catering would be ‘reviewed’ in mid-September ... or was that mid-October?
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 4:11 am
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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK
IIRC a BA staffer (or insider) mentioned the COVID catering would be ‘reviewed’ in mid-September ... or was that mid-October?
I recall exactly that - mid-September. Who was it??

Otherwise Raffles’ statement on HfP applies and we wait till mid-Oct?
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 4:55 am
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Perhaps this is the "mid-September" enhancement.

On yesterday's SPU-LHR flight, we received a box not a bag. Same choice of chicken caesar sandwich or cheese and caramelized onion sandwich mentioned above. We both opted for the chicken which was OK but didn't taste very caesar like. Included a little salad cup. Chocolate mousse was tasty.







1C and our FA liked my DIY kit.





All in all, an enjoyable flight especially with a wonderful CSM/FA Lewis working the cabin and topping up drinks. Too bad that he wasn't working our LHR-LAX flight.

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Old Sep 20, 2020, 5:03 am
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Originally Posted by SFO777

1C and our FA liked my DIY kit.



.

Kudos to this approach 👍
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 6:20 am
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...... Too that bad he wasn't working our LHR-LAX flight.

Uh oh, sounds ominous....
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 6:24 am
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Originally Posted by Foofighter69
According to this Virgin "Economy and Premium passengers get a choice of three hot meals" - which means their covid-caering is (will be) better than the pre-covid BA offerings (which at least in Economy was reduced to two hot meals - one of which was the vege option).
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by CKBA
According to this Virgin "Economy and Premium passengers get a choice of three hot meals" - which means their covid-caering is (will be) better than the pre-covid BA offerings (which at least in Economy was reduced to two hot meals - one of which was the vege option).
It does rather feel as though BA won't be happy until they take that 'Worst Catering in any Premium Cabin' award doesn't it?

How sad.
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Old Sep 20, 2020, 7:08 am
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Looks exactly like what we received GIB-LHR in early September. No progress yet, I am afraid
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