Stupid question-- when traveling J or F do they allow you to ask for seconds or if I ask I will just look stupid?

Can I also eat at anytime, as in don't follow their regularly scheduled meal times?

Thank you.

Don't see why not...I've asked and received seconds in Y many times

Big difference between the two.

In F eat anytime. J you follow a schedule and generally speaking if you don't eat during the meal tough luck.

You can always ask for seconds....in J mains are easier than plated appetizers. Although usually the loading closely matches pax numbers so unless you picked the thing nobody wanted there's a chance it's out.

F has a better chance but things run out too and frankly my problem in F is too much food not too little. Usually they have seconds or more available of caviar.

How are crew's meal allocated?

Often times, they are eating the leftover J/PEY meals.

So what happens if you ask for seconds? They check and see hopefully if there's still a Y meal left for themselves?

By the way, they always have snacks available throughout the flight. So feel free to ask for seconds of the main courses, they might be able to oblige you and it's worth a try.

But if not, there are other options for the rest of the flight. Usually a sandwich you can order, and a ramen noodle dish, and some various packaged cookies and snacks that are out on a tray for anyone to help themselves. I've slept through entire meals and sustained myself on the side snacks before.

Yup. They usually end up eating J or F meals, or the cockpit crew food if the pilots don't want everything (cockpit crew usually have sandwiches or something loaded on specifically for them, not available to pax I'm pretty sure). And....I definitely have seen FAs keeping extras for themselves, and telling pax the choice is all gone. This is a no-no, but I've seen it happen have enough anecdotes and am sure it continues. I'm talking about even the availability of a first-choice meal, not seconds.

It's definitely not a problem. I've had cabin crew offer me a second serving of caviar in F. I refused it as it was too much food.

On a recent flight to LAX on 884, I've even seen a passenger order the snack immediately after the completion of the first meal service. The snack was a hamburger! How anyone could eat a burger after that meal, I have no idea.

I finished all the caviar in a recent flight in F from HKG-ORD. The other passengers were asleep. I wondered what happened to them when they asked for caviar for breakfast...

Just ask! On CX, if you're in F or J, they almost always say yes. Try the caviar-topped eggs while you're at it, it's fantastic:

+1 !!

1. I would be happy to serve if you ask. The food can't be reheated for the second time in case passengers want it later. It will just be wasted. I rather it goes into someone's stomach!

2. Passengers approached me before saying they wanted to have their meals later. in FCL of course no problem. In JCL and EY if extra meals are loaded, i will try to ask for their meal preference and save it for them. (Not a must, pls don't take for granted!)

Or it can go into the crew's stomach!

What's the avg life span of Y/PEY/J's meal once its been heated?

Or the crew simply take whatever they need that shall be enough for themselves and dump the rest.

A whole decade ago we flew with Air Canada YYZ-HKG (1 stop via YVR) on their old A340-300s. First leg to YVR we were told that there'll be a technical stop at Calgary (think it was a fuel diversion caused by nasty headwinds). Then the scheduled YVR stop. Afterwards as we were somewhere over the Pacific the captain told us that we'll be diverting into ICN due to a typhoon in HK. Finally got going again after a while (couldn't remember how long). At that point it should've been time for the second meal, but the crew said that it has been "expired" so they can't be served to us. And it certainly didn't help when the limit of crew hours were reached resulting in yet another diversion to TPE.

Perfect case of how hunger turns into anger for the pax.

Shocking that the Captain put the risk of running out of fuel over the Pacific above the sense of entitlement of some.

What makes you think that? This conclusion is even more shocking than how they decided to not load additional meals during either one of the stopovers between ICN and TPE.