Since I normally fly CO out of PWM, I wind up on Colgan Q400s most of the time (well, except for CLE flights, which are CoEx ERJs). You're lucky to even get pretzels from the Colgan crews.

I connected in EWR to CMH this afternoon, and discovered on the EWR->CMH flight (a CoEx ERJ), that a snack consisting of either a ham or turkey sandwich, fritos, and a hershey bar was served.

Now this flight did not occur at a mealtime (2:45pm to 4:30pm), and spent less than 90 minutes in the air.

Did I encounter some anomaly, or is this standard service now on relatively short regional flights? The sandwich wasn't anything special, but being my first meal of the day was very much appreciated

Two lenghty E145 flights last week. First one, a morning flight YYZ-IAH with a scheduled flight time of three hours fifty five minutes...OUCH! We left at 7:35 AM and our breakfast snack consisted of a package of eight quarter sized slices of beef salami, two crackers, a tub of parmesan cream cheese, small Hershey bar, and a package of dried fruit chews. Would've been better if we had been offered a small individual box of cereal and a small container of milk at that hour of the day instead, and I'm guessing the cost for the cereal bought in quantities would be about equal to what we had, without much additional weight on the aircraft if that was subsituted for the snacks.

Return flight on the same route with the same aircraft type, was scheduled for three hours eight minutes during the dinner hour, and we got the slightly larger turkey or ham sub with mayo, Hershey bar, and fruit snacks.

No more mainline aircraft on the YYZ-IAH route, after having at least two B737's in addition to the ERJ's a few months ago.

bj-21.

NEWARK-MEMPHIS RJ had the same meal served ^

COEX flights have traditionally had similar meal service to CO mainline Y for many years now; it started about the time the ERJs first entered the fleet. The pre-packaged snack box is mainly used out of airports where there's no catering available, and is catered out of one of the hubs.

Even with the guidelines that CO gives, there are always a few flights that leave us scratching our heads when they do/don't get a meal. CO 1695 (IAH-LAX) is a good example with a 1:00 dep and 2:30 arr yet it gets a hot meal. IAH-ORD-IAH also has some odd cold plates scheduled.

All the flights I have had on ERJ's, mainly IAH-TAM or IAH-MTY and back, have had some sort of sandwich after noon, and before, either the crackers/cheese/salami or cereal/milk/fruit. Not too bad for regional jet service.

And what's really weird about this is that the mainline flight from CMH to EWR this evening, 552, offers no meal service in Y. I think for most people, 5:20 - 7:16pm qualifies as "meal time."

It seems that COEX is a bit better than CO about getting snack meals on all flights 2+ hours...I like 'em, especially when I'm in 12A !!!

I was on the Chelsea tour at the DO and they said all CoEx flights are catered downline, which may explain salami for b'fast rather than milk. If the outbound flight is evening and return to hub is morning flight the meal/snack has to be able to stand up to overnight storage.

I had a similar sadistic thought yesterday sitting in 12A. "Man, this is much more comfortable than any Y seat on mainline CO."

How terrible is that...

Yep. In my mind:

CO F > CO EX 12A > CO Exit Row > CO EX any other A seat > CO any other seat > Any CO Q seat

Just stay away from my 12b, meal or no meal...

12B is better than 12A (because of the armrest issue) if 12C stays vacant.

That's a pretty big if however. And I'm not a gambling man when it comes to stuffing myself in a metal tube that I don't fit in.

Bingo! I'm not a gambling man either. I'd rather have an A by myself than risk being stuck next to someone.

B has the advantage of me stuffing my roller laptop bag underneath the seat, with the curvature of the planes A and C gives me problems.