ethernal

I realize this is true for all airlines and that first meals are always served in context of origination time zone, but I've always thought it was patently ridiculous that meals are not served after 8 PM on West-bound mid/transcon flights. They've gotten a bit better in the last year with warm snacks from 8-9 PM, but I find it annoying that a 9:05 PM departure to the West Coast - when it is 6 PM there and not even dinner-time yet - does not get meals. Even the snack basket seems pared down.

ryandc99

Done

flyerCO

Also in general AC charges more for their F class. I truly like having a nonstop from AUS/SAT. However I cant justify the added cost even due to being nonstop.

WestCoastPDX

Totally agree. I turn down meals except for breakfast after a 9+ hr flight.

Who wants to eat airplane food?

flyerCO

People that haven't had a chance to otherwise.

Gig103

OP is effectively asking why Delta has set their meal service at 900 miles, when Air Canada offers on < 750 mile flights. Heck, LHR-AMS is 230 miles and BA serves a "meal" (it's small but more than a snack basket) in Club Europe (their European J). And I'd say the answer is because carriers and customers have different priorities.

Plenty of us want to eat airplane food especially when the flight overlaps with normal eating habits. If I have a flight that's in air at 11:30am "body" time, it's hard to eat at 10:00am before boarding and waiting until landing isn't great either. I bring food, but if paying for F/J I'd like a meal to be included. There's enough precedence in the world that a newbie might not realize it either.

flyerfirsts

Agreed. Not everybody lives 30 minutes from the airport too, so 8:05 pm departure and no meal means I either eat dinner at 4pm or have to eat at the airport. With the premium cost of F you'd expect not to have to get ripped off on equally bad food on land.

Intl359Widget

We might as well as lament about the choice of Whisky served onboard... i.e. AC - JW Black Label versus DL - Dewar's Scotch White Label.

WillBarrett_68

DL definitely has flights in the 900-1400 range that get nothing more than the snack basket, depending on time of day.

flyerCO

Yes, the 130pm-4pm window when people apparently don't want to eat.

mattp1987

Yes, that one is ridiculous especially if you've been changing time zones or just coming off a mid-morning flight. I also wish they would serve meals until 9pm. The evening DTW-SAT flight bounces around a bit but always leaves sometime between 8:05-8:30.

ATLflyer2017

Wow people are pretty quick to bash the OP. This is no more petty than people's obsession with PDBs. The answer should be: Delta doesn't feel the need to compete with anyone on that route so they stick with their typical meal policy(period). Air Canada has a different idea on how to do things and so they do serve a meal. All this snark seems like a bit much.

matchbox20_is

Where has anyone bashed the OP?

DLmedalliongold

I read the title and had to laugh - A friend of mine who works for AC as a flight attendant recently flew Delta from YYZ-SLC round trip up front and was incredibly complimentary of Delta, including better food, nicer cabin and excellent flight attendants both ways. He said he was thoroughly impressed by the entire experience, even thought the baggage notifications were really cool. I do agree Delta could up their food offerings up front to be more inline with AA as far as flight times, but I say overall they have a better operation than AC or their domestic competition.

flyerCO

Yeah I normally book either MSP or JFK for SAT/AUS flights partially for this reason. The other aggravating one is SLC-SAT/AUS and v.v. one direction gets screwed, and due to schedule changes it regularly flips on which direction.