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mot29 Jan 2, 2018 2:41 pm
Originally Posted by kyushuman (Post 29223947)
BUT-- KLM serves v e r y S L O W L Y-- on a flight time of seven hours 15 minutes, the lights were on for a total of about 4 hours, 30 minutes-- about 2 hours 30 minutes for dinner (9:30pm to midnight) and then after 3 hours of dark, the blazing lights were back on for the last 2 hours for the breakfast service.
Interesting observation, but not sure it is uniform. I've flown the 10 pm or so KL JFK-AMS twice in the last year (747 both times) and on both flights, the meals service was very quick. In fact, it was an abbreviated menu -- appetizer, main course, dessert.

DLDiamond2013 Jan 2, 2018 3:56 pm
Originally Posted by MSPeconomist (Post 29240817)
I learned this as a young age, traveling with my parents.......even on car trips, meals didn't follow a schedule as my mother tended to be fussy about hygiene.
Interesting. We just ate in the car on road trips as a kid. Packed lunches.

cestmoi123 Jan 2, 2018 3:58 pm
Originally Posted by DLDiamond2013 (Post 29239397)
I agree that on the ground, I have no desire for a meal at 1:00am local time. But my rule of thumb while traveling is to eat when food is offered, if at all possible. This is because sometimes your next planned meal doesn’t occur as planned, delays happen, cancellations happen, diversions happen, misconnects and inadvertent overnights happen, etc. I prefer to not have to look for food in the midst of those issues, too, if I can prevent it. That’s just me and my two cents. Not saying those are reasons enough for an entire plane full of people to eat at 1:00am local/body clock time.
My father and maternal grandfather were both in the Army (different countries), and my father says that they apparently both got the same advice early on: never pass up a chance to eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom - you never know when the next chance will come.

alltforsverige Jan 2, 2018 9:00 pm
I've done many TATL in Delta, KLM, Air France, and SAS (OK, not necessarily many with each of them, but certainly many in total), and I'm always happy when I have Delta for the eastbound portion. The European airlines are definitely much slower in dinner service. There's a whole thread on the SAS forum joking about it, in fact. The ~7 hours from Newark to Stockholm usually leaves about 2.5 hours for sleeping. Of course, I just put in good earplugs and slap on the eye mask if I really want to sleep, but I still like the Delta reasonably efficient dinner service. Enjoy a meal and movie, sleep for a few hours, and get ready to start the day.


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