Mar 15, 2022, 5:58 pm
Last edit by: Prospero
Please do not quote photos in this thread.
Details of band and service timings can be found here: Band & Services Timings
Sister thread: Club Europe catering | opinions and general discussion
Archived thread Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos (Sep 2018 to Mar 2022)
Numbers relate to the post number. Vegetarian means the alternative option provided as standard rather than the special meals. The pre-ordered special meals are AVML (Asia-vegetarian), CHML (children's meal), DBML (diabetic meal), GFML (gluten-free), HNML (Hindu non-vegetarian meal), KSML (Kosher meal), LCML (low-calorie meal), LFML (low-fat meal), NLML (low-lactose meal), LSML (low salt meal), MOML (Muslim meal), VGML (vegan meal), and VLML (lacto-ovo vegetarian).
There are differences between the offering in/out of LHR, LGW, and BA CityFlyer routes operated from LCY, STN, BRS, BHX, MAN, EDI, and DUB. For BA CityFlyer flights please refer to this guide created by eJetterBA CityFlyer catering guide
Last update: post 2705 (band 1 breakfast KSML)
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Chef's Chat sheets for:
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Express (LBA, MAN, and JER only. Note JER is classed as 'Express' but gets band 1 service)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch:
Afternoon tea:
Dinner:
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Band 1 (UK, France, Ireland, BeNeLux, Germany)
Breakfast: 2705 (KSML),
Brunch:
Lunch: 2637,
Afternoon tea:
Dinner: 2697 (KSML),
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Band 2 (e.g. Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Prague, Copenhagen)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch: 2631, 2636,
Afternoon tea: 2630 (CHML), 2637
Dinner:
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Band 3 (e.g. Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Stockholm)
Breakfast: 1298 (LSML),
Rest of the day: 1299 (LSML),
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Band 4 (e.g. Malta, Sofia, Kyiv, Istanbul)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day: 2639
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Band 5 (e.g., Cairo, Amman)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day:
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Details of band and service timings can be found here: Band & Services Timings
Sister thread: Club Europe catering | opinions and general discussion
Archived thread Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos (Sep 2018 to Mar 2022)
Numbers relate to the post number. Vegetarian means the alternative option provided as standard rather than the special meals. The pre-ordered special meals are AVML (Asia-vegetarian), CHML (children's meal), DBML (diabetic meal), GFML (gluten-free), HNML (Hindu non-vegetarian meal), KSML (Kosher meal), LCML (low-calorie meal), LFML (low-fat meal), NLML (low-lactose meal), LSML (low salt meal), MOML (Muslim meal), VGML (vegan meal), and VLML (lacto-ovo vegetarian).
There are differences between the offering in/out of LHR, LGW, and BA CityFlyer routes operated from LCY, STN, BRS, BHX, MAN, EDI, and DUB. For BA CityFlyer flights please refer to this guide created by eJetterBA CityFlyer catering guide
Last update: post 2705 (band 1 breakfast KSML)
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Chef's Chat sheets for:
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Express (LBA, MAN, and JER only. Note JER is classed as 'Express' but gets band 1 service)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch:
Afternoon tea:
Dinner:
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Band 1 (UK, France, Ireland, BeNeLux, Germany)
Breakfast: 2705 (KSML),
Brunch:
Lunch: 2637,
Afternoon tea:
Dinner: 2697 (KSML),
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Band 2 (e.g. Barcelona, Nice, Venice, Prague, Copenhagen)
Breakfast:
Brunch:
Lunch: 2631, 2636,
Afternoon tea: 2630 (CHML), 2637
Dinner:
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Band 3 (e.g. Madrid, Rome, Warsaw, Stockholm)
Breakfast: 1298 (LSML),
Rest of the day: 1299 (LSML),
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Band 4 (e.g. Malta, Sofia, Kyiv, Istanbul)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day: 2639
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Band 5 (e.g., Cairo, Amman)
Breakfast:
Rest of the day:
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Club Europe catering | menus, reviews and photos
Feb 23, 2023, 10:38 am
#2131
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Or, possibly, for whatever reason, there were no meals for the ATH flight. So the crews were ordered to stretch the DUB meal over the 2 flights…
Feb 23, 2023, 2:23 pm
#2132
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Posts: 1,403
Sadly no photos, but flew back from CPH on the 15:20 this afternoon and the service was borderline comical.
Crew asked each CE if they’d like regular or veggie afternoon tea, but kept getting mixed up and bringing the wrong trays out so had to keep returning them to the galley. Then they couldn’t get the drinks right. Forgot to guy next to me in 2D, even though he only ordered sparking water, then brought me the gin and glass, without the tonic. Worse, they were taking so long, they were still progressing to the back of CE 40 minutes out, without offering any top-ups or anything else as it was taking so long to complete service. Just a single drink with the meal.
Crew asked each CE if they’d like regular or veggie afternoon tea, but kept getting mixed up and bringing the wrong trays out so had to keep returning them to the galley. Then they couldn’t get the drinks right. Forgot to guy next to me in 2D, even though he only ordered sparking water, then brought me the gin and glass, without the tonic. Worse, they were taking so long, they were still progressing to the back of CE 40 minutes out, without offering any top-ups or anything else as it was taking so long to complete service. Just a single drink with the meal.
Feb 24, 2023, 11:41 am
#2133
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Late afternoon flight to stockholm. Went for the curry which was decent.
Last edited by KARFA; Feb 24, 2023 at 11:56 am
Feb 24, 2023, 12:21 pm
#2134
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Feb 25, 2023, 7:50 am
#2135
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LHR-ARN 20:20 departure BA784
The curry was much better than the Shepard’s pie. Found it odd getting different desserts and starters, didn’t realise that was a thing.
on a side note the Tanqueray was free flowing.
on a side note the Tanqueray was free flowing.
Feb 25, 2023, 7:55 am
#2136
Join Date: Dec 2022
Posts: 780
Heathrow > Bucharest
Sorry to be a bore but everyone is posting the same meals! Including me. Today’s choice on the 1005 from Heathrow to Bucharest. Think at that time many people preferred the cold option (ploughman’s) but they had ran out after row 3 in a six row cabin. Curry was ok but a bit heavy at that time. Dessert was lovely. No snack basket. Interestingly, I assumed the crew would do the return back to LHR in an hour or so but there was another crew waiting to come back when we left the aircraft.
same food choices on this flight as previous posts further up.
same food choices on this flight as previous posts further up.
Feb 25, 2023, 7:57 am
#2137
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I was on an AMS-LGW flight last month and they somehow managed to run out of the ploughman's after serving 1E in a two row cabin
Feb 25, 2023, 9:45 am
#2138
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Posts: 1,403
I often wonder the logic of handing out menus up to row 8 and then getting half way through and telling everyone there's only 1 meal option left.
Feb 25, 2023, 10:07 am
#2139
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Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 847
I guess it was catered out of LGW, meaning if a lot of people had the ploughmans on the flight out, fewer for flight back. I remember flying back from MYK in September for the crew to be telling people from row 4 backwards that the first two options were unavailable - despite handing out a menu to everyone.
I often wonder the logic of handing out menus up to row 8 and then getting half way through and telling everyone there's only 1 meal option left.
I often wonder the logic of handing out menus up to row 8 and then getting half way through and telling everyone there's only 1 meal option left.
I think the issue is they only load very few of the salads. The poster reported missing out, but with a 2 row CE cabin chances are only a couple of the ploughman’s salads were loaded.
Feb 25, 2023, 10:08 am
#2140
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That’s not shepherds pie, though, as there’s no mash. It’s presumably some sort of beef (?) hotpot…
Last edited by Prospero; Feb 26, 2023 at 3:10 pm Reason: Remove quoted image
Feb 25, 2023, 10:13 am
#2141
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Feb 25, 2023, 12:22 pm
#2143
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Aren’t the meals for the return flight segregated? (different trolley) - if they were not, return flights to London would only ever have the unpopular options left.
I think the issue is they only load very few of the salads. The poster reported missing out, but with a 2 row CE cabin chances are only a couple of the ploughman’s salads were loaded.
I think the issue is they only load very few of the salads. The poster reported missing out, but with a 2 row CE cabin chances are only a couple of the ploughman’s salads were loaded.
Feb 26, 2023, 2:12 am
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Oh dear BA chefs....
Oh dear BA chefs....