Delta Premium Cabin Cost Cutting
Mar 26, 2017, 10:45 am
#17
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FWIW, I think flights over 1,500 miles are supposed to have a more substantial, plated desert.
Mar 26, 2017, 10:48 am
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1) Lunch: pie/pastry/cake thing pre-plated on tray
2) Dinner: ice cream/gelato (usually Jeni's... one time catering messed up and we got Blue Bunny, the crew was so embarassed to serve this :P)
3) "Snack" service (post-8pm departure): usually a Dancing Deer brownie or cookie
Mar 26, 2017, 11:58 am
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The OP offers no evidence for cost-cutting other than in the meal service. There's a well-established meal thread where the OP could have researched what has been typical, to see if his service was an anomaly. That would take a bit of effort on his part... so that wasn't the route taken.
Mar 26, 2017, 12:28 pm
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It has nothing to do with getting the dancing deer cookie or ice cream or anything else instead of the candy bar, I likely wouldn't eat any of them as I don't really like sweets. Serving a candy bar in a premium cabin just shows a cheap, callous disregard for customers. Imagine going to a restaurant and having a Snickers plonked in front of you after your meal.
Mar 26, 2017, 12:41 pm
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What is so bad about Dancing Deer cookies? They seem pretty good for a mass produced product.
Mar 26, 2017, 1:00 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 1:56 pm
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It has nothing to do with getting the dancing deer cookie or ice cream or anything else instead of the candy bar, I likely wouldn't eat any of them as I don't really like sweets. Serving a candy bar in a premium cabin just shows a cheap, callous disregard for customers. Imagine going to a restaurant and having a Snickers plonked in front of you after your meal.
Mar 26, 2017, 3:48 pm
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It has nothing to do with getting the dancing deer cookie or ice cream or anything else instead of the candy bar, I likely wouldn't eat any of them as I don't really like sweets. Serving a candy bar in a premium cabin just shows a cheap, callous disregard for customers. Imagine going to a restaurant and having a Snickers plonked in front of you after your meal.
Mar 26, 2017, 6:59 pm
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Mar 26, 2017, 8:30 pm
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It has nothing to do with getting the dancing deer cookie or ice cream or anything else instead of the candy bar, I likely wouldn't eat any of them as I don't really like sweets. Serving a candy bar in a premium cabin just shows a cheap, callous disregard for customers. Imagine going to a restaurant and having a Snickers plonked in front of you after your meal.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:33 pm
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And really, imagine going to a restaurant and having a prepackaged dancing deer cookie plonked in front of you. It's no different. Of course, we got to restaurants specifically for the purpose of eating. We get on airplanes to go somewhere. Food on the plane is by definition utilitarian. If you really want a dining experience there are plenty of better places where ever it is you are going.
Mar 26, 2017, 8:53 pm
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And really, imagine going to a restaurant and having a prepackaged dancing deer cookie plonked in front of you. It's no different. Of course, we got to restaurants specifically for the purpose of eating. We get on airplanes to go somewhere. Food on the plane is by definition utilitarian. If you really want a dining experience there are plenty of better places where ever it is you are going.
Were flying and eating on planes purely utilitarian we would all be happily riding in Southwest's flying school buses and bringing our own sack lunches.
Mar 26, 2017, 9:23 pm
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I just flew DTW-NRT yesterday and the food was awefull. Dinner was some baked chicken and mashed potatoes. Mid flight snack was a half baked flat breat pizza and a Magnum ice cream bar. Breakfast was the worst, some kind of burrito and hashbrowns, did not finish it. Of course this was in the main cabin.
I wish there was a way to bring some food from outside and have them warm it up. I could just bring a couple of subs or something and eat them later.
we were also not given food menus. The FA said, they are saving some $ by not printing those any more.
I wish there was a way to bring some food from outside and have them warm it up. I could just bring a couple of subs or something and eat them later.
we were also not given food menus. The FA said, they are saving some $ by not printing those any more.
Mar 27, 2017, 1:30 am
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we were also not given food menus. The FA said, they are saving some $ by not printing those any more.