Jan 22, 2021, 4:50 pm
Last edit by: Enigma368
Modified COVID-19 catering, effective 20 January 2021 until further notice.
Previous discussion: COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways
A reduced service has resumed in all cabins, including steel cutlery, glassware and chinaware in premium cabins. Choice may be limited in some cabins and on some routes. Some elements may be delivered covered for safety. All meals apart from First are served on single trays. Portion sizes, particularly in Club World, have been significantly reduced compared to pre-Covid.
On BA CityFlyer full service has resumed, with the exception of hot towels and warmed bread in Club Europe. See dedicated wiki thread for full details.
Details of the current service are available on BA.com
Changes from pre-COVID service:
Euro Traveller
Previous discussion: COVID Friendly Catering Revealed By British Airways
A reduced service has resumed in all cabins, including steel cutlery, glassware and chinaware in premium cabins. Choice may be limited in some cabins and on some routes. Some elements may be delivered covered for safety. All meals apart from First are served on single trays. Portion sizes, particularly in Club World, have been significantly reduced compared to pre-Covid.
On BA CityFlyer full service has resumed, with the exception of hot towels and warmed bread in Club Europe. See dedicated wiki thread for full details.
Details of the current service are available on BA.com
Changes from pre-COVID service:
Euro Traveller
- Buy-on-board M&S menu replaced with pre-order Tom Kerridge menu
- Complimentary bottle of water and packaged ambient snack offered to all passengers
- Band 1 now receives the same service as Express (light breakfast > brunch > lunch > afternoon tea > dinner)
- Band 2 now receives the same service as Bands 3 and 4 (breakfast > rest of the day)
- Band 3 should still have a drinks run before serving lunch and dinner
- No hot towels
- No menus on Band 3 / Band 4 services
- Dessert served in ceramic dish rather than plastic pot
- No starter for Express / Band 1 lunch and dinner services
- No cheese for Band 3 / Band 4 rest of the day services
- One fewer sandwich for afternoon tea services
- One type of (warm) bread roll available, wrapped in sealed plastic, served from a basket
- No roll/butter served with main meal, cheese and crackers also not provided
- Inflight snack (previously took the form of a Magnum ice cream) and tuck box suspended - replaced with Walkers shortbread o/r from galley.
- TBC
- No hot towels
- Meals served on one tray at the same time
- No choice of starter or dessert
- Portion sizes have been substantially reduced. Starters, cheese and dessert are all served in mini ramekins
- No hot towels
Modified COVID-19 catering, effective 20 January 2021
Jan 20, 2021, 11:00 am
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Modified COVID-19 catering, effective 20 January 2021
The relevant page of ba.com has now been updated: https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...food-and-drink
Jan 20, 2021, 11:35 am
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The relevant page of ba.com has now been updated: https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...food-and-drink
Jan 20, 2021, 12:29 pm
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Club Europe
Some old news on the new standard from years ago, Band 2-4 flights in Club Europe offer a choice of hot meal or cold meal I hear so good luck to those in the back rows of Club quite likely not getting a hot meal
Looks Like someone reinvented the service from years ago which caused a lot of pain to the Crew and thought “we give it another go” unless internal comms are wrong which once again is likely too
Looks Like someone reinvented the service from years ago which caused a lot of pain to the Crew and thought “we give it another go” unless internal comms are wrong which once again is likely too
Jan 20, 2021, 12:59 pm
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I'm reading it as there being a meat handheld and a veggie handheld, both directions.
Jan 20, 2021, 1:03 pm
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Sorry for another question EJetter
So going forward we will have 4 bands: Express/Domestic/Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4.
How about meal times, will it be simply Breakfast and Rest of the Day or will there still be Lunch and Afternoon Tea?
So going forward we will have 4 bands: Express/Domestic/Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4.
How about meal times, will it be simply Breakfast and Rest of the Day or will there still be Lunch and Afternoon Tea?
Jan 20, 2021, 1:07 pm
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The relevant page of ba.com has now been updated: https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb...food-and-drink
Jan 20, 2021, 1:16 pm
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Sorry for another question EJetter
So going forward we will have 4 bands: Express/Domestic/Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4.
How about meal times, will it be simply Breakfast and Rest of the Day or will there still be Lunch and Afternoon Tea?
So going forward we will have 4 bands: Express/Domestic/Band 1, Band 2, Band 3, Band 4.
How about meal times, will it be simply Breakfast and Rest of the Day or will there still be Lunch and Afternoon Tea?
Bands 2-4: Hot Breakfast with cold option (no cold option on night-stoppers) > Hot Meal with cold option for rest of the day
Not sure about exact timings.
Last edited by EJetter; Jan 22, 2021 at 7:27 am Reason: Typo
Jan 20, 2021, 1:25 pm
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That looks like a nice improvement for band 2 which appears to regain the hot ‘rest of day’ meal it lost several years ago.
Jan 20, 2021, 3:27 pm
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glad you are just as confused as I am. Handheld? What is that? Cold croissant or heated croissant ? The hot breakfast gone on domestics and Band 1 in Club Europe won’t go down well and neither will the choice of hot or cold rest of the day Band 2-4 for those who want a hot meal and have no choice but hot., at least before it was a choice of 2 hots and 1 cold but now it’s gone back to 1 hot or 1 cold....
Jan 20, 2021, 3:30 pm
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Jan 20, 2021, 3:39 pm
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glad you are just as confused as I am. Handheld? What is that? Cold croissant or heated croissant ? The hot breakfast gone on domestics and Band 1 in Club Europe won’t go down well and neither will the choice of hot or cold rest of the day Band 2-4 for those who want a hot meal and have no choice but hot., at least before it was a choice of 2 hots and 1 cold but now it’s gone back to 1 hot or 1 cold....
The simplification of the bands may well just be a temporary thing in response to the low volume of passengers, until traffic picks up again
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Jan 20, 2021, 3:41 pm
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Pre-covid, express breakfast rotated between warmed up ham & cheese croissant, and a warmed up bacon roll. The latter was the better of the two by far.
Jan 20, 2021, 3:47 pm
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