Originally Posted by roknroll

Something doesn't completely add up here. I don't know if we have all of the info. I'm not accusing the OP of making things up, but perhaps he didn't have all of the info either and filled in the blanks with assumptions. I have issues with that, because once you start adding in your own embellishments and/or assumptions, how are we supposed to know what is fact and what is assumed?

Here's my piece by piece breakdown and questions:

1. Do you know for a fact that the two passengers were paying F passengers? You say they paid a couple of grand a pop per ticket, are you just assuming that, or do you know that?
   
   After I returned from the lavatory I struck up a conversation with them as they were in front of me. They immediately brought up dinner conversation. I responded with my thoughts on how they should contact DL and what I thought of the situation. They stated they paid for F seats. They were two men traveling together on vacation. Both mentioned their purchase price of "over 2g's."
   
2. You say the FA "snidely told the guys that there were no meals left". Did the FA seriously tell them that there were no more meals left meanly, with contempt, and no apologies?
   
   It was a "I'm sorry guys, there's none left." with an apathetic tone. Followed by a visit from the snack basket.
   
3. You say the passengers were "enraged", that's a pretty strong word. Were they really enraged or just disappointed/upset that they wouldn't get a meal.
   
   To say they were very upset would be putting it mildly. I feel I chose the appropriate phrase.
   
4. The crew that was sitting in the front row of Y: are you sure that the meals they were eating were F meals and not crew meals?
   
   Identical to my meal in every way.
   
5. Are you certain that the mistake was that two F meals were taken from passengers to give to the deadhead crew, and not that there weren't enough F meals loaded from catering?
   
   How could I possibly be certain of that? I see two guys get the shaft and two in Y eating. That's all I had to go on. I didn't ask the FA because her attitude was just awful towards all.
   

Again, I'm not trying to say you are wrong. But there's a lot of assumptions or statements in they without much description or additional/supporting information to verify.

Originally Posted by FlysToSEA

I fear that this is about me. I flew Seattle to Honolulu last Thursday, I was seated in 1B and was flying with a business partner. We did pay for full F and we did not get a meal. Assuming that this is about my partner and I, the person who started this report has a few facts wrong.

1.) The flight attendant did start serving from the rear of the first class cabin and when she got to us the only remaining option was a vegetarian meal. I don't know if this was a result of poor catering or what. I thought vegetarian meals were only available as special meal requests so I assumed this was an error. I asked if she could double check which she did, informing us that she did only have a vegetarian option remaining.

2.) I did complain that I assumed that DL would have enough meals on board for a full meal service and having paid for F, we would have been entitled to something better than a vegetarian option. However, I take issue with the suggestion that we were pretty ticked off or had any type of altercation with the FA about a meal.

3.) I never noticed that any non revenue passengers were eating meals intended for first class but the curtain separating the first class cabin from economy was shut for the entire meal service.

4.) The flight attendant, in my opinion, was totally professional and did offer additional snacks to my partner and I and apologized repeated during the flight and once we landed in Honolulu.

5.) A fellow first class passenger did suggest that we write to Delta customer service and request compensation for not getting a meal but it wasn't that big a deal and truthfully, we had a much better meal in Honolulu that evening that I would not have enjoyed nearly as much if I had eaten cheap airline food in first class.

My partner posts to this website on occasion but I had never heard of FlyerTalk before. When he told me that he thought this post was about us, I had to take a look. I can't believe that there are so many responses with so many people judging a situation that they weren't privy to with little more than a single person's commentary. I guess if I started a new post claiming that during our discussion, the flight attendant had slapped me, you guys would have had a field day!

Good luck and God bless!

Originally Posted by FlysToSEA

My partner posts to this website on occasion but I had never heard of FlyerTalk before. When he told me that he thought this post was about us, I had to take a look. I can't believe that there are so many responses with so many people judging a situation that they weren't privy to with little more than a single person's commentary. I guess if I started a new post claiming that during our discussion, the flight attendant had slapped me, you guys would have had a field day!

Originally Posted by JesseRohr

This is quite easy. Snap a pic of your boarding pass post it up. Or even the flight number. I find it odd for someone to join this site only to post in this thread. Heck, there are multiple flights from SEA to HNL. What flight number was it?