I think OP mentioned that he has AX Platinum, so SC access is covered. Of course, I could be remembering that from a different thread. I am getting old.

I find the catering dramatically worse on AS, for a number of specific reasons.

Short hauls get a tiny, low quality plated “snack” instead of the Delta snack basket, and medium hauls up and down the west coast often get the same “snack” in situations where DL would serve an actual meal. Sometimes, they even skip the catering entirely - on one memorable LAX-SEA flight late at night literally the only food of any kind catered for F was a plate of cookies, and even coach snack mix wasn’t available on request.

Longer hauls do get meals, but they are often unappetizing and made from cheap, gristly cuts of meat... especially when catered from out stations. AS economy buy on board food is actually pretty good in contrast, which makes the lame stuff up front stand out even more.

I get that this can be subjective, but the best evidence I can point to is that AS recenty added the option to decline the F catering in favor of a cheese plate from Y. The fact that there was so much demand for them to do that speaks volumes to how the average passenger feels about what they’re serving onboard.

I’d encourage anyone on the fence to look through the recent meal service threads in the AS and DL forums and make up their mind for themselves.

People used to be roughly the same for both airlines, but lately I’ve personally encountered more bad onboard service on AS (no runs back through the cabin for refills, absurdly slow meal service, surly flight attendants) recently. Judging by the protest lanyards and galley conversation, I get the sense the Virgin merger is affecting morale at the eskimo a bit...

The BOS experience is so, so bad. It’s like one of the single gate holding pens from AMS back when they had security at each gate. Except that’s the ENTIRE TERMINAL. The single sad security checkpoint doesn’t even offer proper PreCheck.