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Please do not quote photos in this thread.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
May 21, 2023, 12:32 pm
#2746
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Is that recent? It looks like covid catering?
May 21, 2023, 12:43 pm
#2747
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May 21, 2023, 4:28 pm
#2748
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Seems many Gatwick flights have had their bands downgraded
May 22, 2023, 12:04 am
#2750
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BA632 LHR-ATH on 21 May. A good load of 48 pax in CE served by an efficient and enthusiastic crew. (Before doors-close the crew did have to send the catering folks back for more since they hadn't delivered sufficient).
Chicken Thai curry - tasty.
Chicken Thai curry - tasty.
May 22, 2023, 2:37 am
#2751
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In a weird twist of fate, flying back from Nice last week and received what appeared to be Band 3 catering, with two hot options and a salad one. Presume this is fluke as opposed to standard service?
May 22, 2023, 2:44 am
#2752
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What time of the day was this? And did it have cheese or not? We need to know this to know if it was Band 2 or 3.
May 22, 2023, 2:47 am
#2753
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May 22, 2023, 11:55 am
#2754
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Doesn't taste bad, but not exactly substantial. I made a cheese and ham roll which was about the best use of the available ingredients I could make.
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May 22, 2023, 12:10 pm
#2755
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LHR - BCN
Row 10, last person not to have a choice of Thai green curry or Lentil Pie.
Stuck with the lentil pie… I wouldn’t mind but my hand was forced to buy a 175 upgrade to keep the exit row after the curtain quietly went back a couple of days prior.
To be rewarded with the rabbit food didn’t feel fare especially after the gentlemen told me I should have booked a seat further forward….
I was also told I could have reserved the chicken meal before flying? I thought that was just special meals I said, the reply was yes but that means you can book the chicken? How does this work?
I then saw the rear member of staff later walking back with a chicken curry, when I asked her if that was a chicken Thai curry she went in to a right fluster.
Row 10, last person not to have a choice of Thai green curry or Lentil Pie.
Stuck with the lentil pie… I wouldn’t mind but my hand was forced to buy a 175 upgrade to keep the exit row after the curtain quietly went back a couple of days prior.
To be rewarded with the rabbit food didn’t feel fare especially after the gentlemen told me I should have booked a seat further forward….
I was also told I could have reserved the chicken meal before flying? I thought that was just special meals I said, the reply was yes but that means you can book the chicken? How does this work?
I then saw the rear member of staff later walking back with a chicken curry, when I asked her if that was a chicken Thai curry she went in to a right fluster.
May 22, 2023, 12:46 pm
#2756
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I'll bet she did! Clearly caught red handed with a meal they had "run out of" (aka saved for the crew). Perhaps she didn't like rabbit food either, which is why her first choice was given over yours. Wow!
May 22, 2023, 4:24 pm
#2758
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Crew work hard and deserve their meals. Unlike pilots, shorthaul CC dont get one on every flight either, I was recently shocked to learn.
May 22, 2023, 4:26 pm
#2759
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Band 2 lunch and dinner have two hot plus one cold option, its been this way for a while. The difference between them and B3 is no cheese, plus the substitution of tea on afternoon flights.
May 23, 2023, 12:50 am
#2760
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Some of the crew meals are the same as pax meals. If this was one of them, she did nothing wrong (they do have clear stickers on saying ‘crew meal’). Or indeed if the crew had agreed earlier to swap their meal for a passenger, then it’s also reasonable. If they just kept one behind because they fancied it, yes it’s ok to be aggrieved, but we don’t know in this case that’s definitely what happened.
Crew work hard and deserve their meals. Unlike pilots, shorthaul CC don’t get one on every flight either, I was recently shocked to learn.
Crew work hard and deserve their meals. Unlike pilots, shorthaul CC don’t get one on every flight either, I was recently shocked to learn.