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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

Old May 7, 2022, 11:09 am
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Afternoon tea on the BA701 VIE-LHR this afternoon, the PA enjoyed his bottle of water and crisps.

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Originally Posted by krispy84
As opposed to dark and sweet? 😁
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Originally Posted by krispy84
Campari spritz 👍👍👍 Aperol is usually too sweet for me when the Prosecco is taken into account. Apologies to darling PUCCI, but I love the bitters drinking culture in Italy. I come back from a week in Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna with v different drink preferences.
Angel - there are no apologies needed. You like them. I don't. It's as easy as that.

To bring the thread back to some semblance of continuity - I really do think that the bars are getting terrible prosaic. I think that there should be much more choice in what calls itself a premium cabin. Do they sell a lot of alcoholic drinks in ET - I have not been there in years so I really have no idea what happens the other side of that curtain.
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Old May 7, 2022, 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by PUCCI GALORE
To bring the thread back to some semblance of continuity - I really do think that the bars are getting terrible prosaic. I think that there should be much more choice in what calls itself a premium cabin. Do they sell a lot of alcoholic drinks in ET - I have not been there in years so I really have no idea what happens the other side of that curtain.
Yes the CE bars could definitely do with interesting options, to spice up the current boring offer. Havent a clue regarding ET but would be curious to know how BA sales compare with EasyJet and Ryanair etc.
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Old May 7, 2022, 4:17 pm
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Originally Posted by MaxFlyer
Ive posted some Muslim meals upthread.

Sometimes you get a veg meal and sometimes a halal chicken or Turkey meal in CE.
Thanks, might give them a go for a change.
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Old May 8, 2022, 12:04 pm
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Todays LHR to Malaga evening menu


I had the Beef and SWMBO had the veggie and both were pretty tasty.

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Kosher afternoon tea to MAN. Unusually the scone was on a separate tray - I am sure when I have previously had it, the scone was included on the main tray. Also heating instructions for the scone but it wasn’t heated.





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Old May 9, 2022, 2:48 am
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Truly awful CE service on yesterdays afternoon flight from Oslo. Afternoon tea and drinks were served (served being a generous phrase here - my wife preferred 'thrown at us') from the same trolley moments after take off. Meal was simply described as, "meat or veg?" Entire tray was served with all of the plastic toppers still on. Champagne was poured just according to however the FA could be bothered to do it - I got a full glass, my wife got a half. We were practically chased to finish eating - they started collecting empty trays not even five minutes after serving them, and came around every couple of minutes after that to check if you'd finished. It felt really awkward. After trays were collected, none of the FAs were seen for the rest of the flight. Glasses stayed empty and stayed on the tables - in fact my empty glass was still on the centre table when we touched down!

What the FAs did excel at however, was closing the curtain to the galley and laughing/giggling/talking very loudly about fellow staff members. So loud in fact that we, seated at the back of CE, could hear quite clearly every review they gave about their colleagues. Really, really unprofessional, and a complaint will be going in.
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That’s sounds appalling and unacceptable, please feed that back to BA.
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Truly awful CE service on yesterdays afternoon flight from Oslo. Afternoon tea and drinks were served (served being a generous phrase here - my wife preferred 'thrown at us') from the same trolley moments after take off. Meal was simply described as, "meat or veg?" Entire tray was served with all of the plastic toppers still on. Champagne was poured just according to however the FA could be bothered to do it - I got a full glass, my wife got a half. We were practically chased to finish eating - they started collecting empty trays not even five minutes after serving them, and came around every couple of minutes after that to check if you'd finished. It felt really awkward. After trays were collected, none of the FAs were seen for the rest of the flight. Glasses stayed empty and stayed on the tables - in fact my empty glass was still on the centre table when we touched down!

What the FAs did excel at however, was closing the curtain to the galley and laughing/giggling/talking very loudly about fellow staff members. So loud in fact that we, seated at the back of CE, could hear quite clearly every review they gave about their colleagues. Really, really unprofessional, and a complaint will be going in.
That is totally unacceptable - I would have confronted them in their lair and sorted their nonsense out. Was one of them an older man with silver hair by any chance?

Complain long and hard to BA with every detail. I'd have had all their names pronto. God knows with all these cancellations and fares to match they'd have had the broad side of my wicked tongue.
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Originally Posted by PUCCI GALORE
Was one of them an older man with silver hair by any chance?
Two younger members of staff - mid-20s I would guess. One male, one female.

It's a shame as the crew on the outbound were absolutely fantastic - the polar opposite. Orders taken at each seat in turn, personal greetings, no trolley in sight. We were plied with so much alcohol that I'm not actually sure how we made it through the airport; it seemed like they were challenging themselves to clear the bar before landing!
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Two younger members of staff - mid-20s I would guess. One male, one female.

It's a shame as the crew on the outbound were absolutely fantastic - the polar opposite. Orders taken at each seat in turn, personal greetings, no trolley in sight. We were plied with so much alcohol that I'm not actually sure how we made it through the airport; it seemed like they were challenging themselves to clear the bar before landing!
That sort of conduct may very well wash at Ryanair - although I have never witnessed such obvious rudeness it has to be said - but BA are fighting to stand still and frankly they'd do better to call out Finnair and put the likes of them at the door.
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Apologies if the information is in this thread, but I couldn't find it and would appreciate your help.

Will be on a return Germany-LHR-Germany later this week (so band 1). Flight to LHR is in the evening, dinner, no problem. But the flight back from LHR is during the "afternoon tea" period and I was wondering whether there is a chance to avoid sandwiches or scones, and get something savoury and not bread-based instead? Maybe by ordering a special meal?

Thank you!
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Apologies if the information is in this thread, but I couldn't find it and would appreciate your help.

Will be on a return Germany-LHR-Germany later this week (so band 1). Flight to LHR is in the evening, dinner, no problem. But the flight back from LHR is during the "afternoon tea" period and I was wondering whether there is a chance to avoid sandwiches or scones, and get something savoury and not bread-based instead? Maybe by ordering a special meal?

Thank you!
GF meal, no bread there
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Old May 9, 2022, 9:51 am
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GF meal, no bread there
Thank you! Any idea what a GF meal on BA looks like?

Had a similar thought, but recently ordered a GF meal on a LH-group flight to avoid the bread and ended up getting a sandwich on a terrible GF bread roll.

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