Eastbay1K

I think you have confused outstation with outhouse station.

Dawgfan6291

Couldn't tell you as far as STT goes. Most airports have/had the ability to cater in some form or fashion pre-COVID. Could be that it was a restaurant that did the catering (the norm in a lot of small stations) that doesn't have the staff, isn't open, whatever. Or could be that STT had a catering company that closed and/or is understaff.

Its really hard to say.
several different reasons this could be.
Wait Delta has a hub at YUL? When did that happen?

kmersh

STT did have a proper catering kitchen prior to COVID-19, iirc it was called Goddard In-Flight Catering and it was a local In-Flight Catering chain that catered airlines in a number of Caribbean countries.

Whether Goddard survived COVID-19 or if DL considers STT a priority I have truly have no idea.

Minnyappleus

So unacceptable.
If every box came with a voucher for 10,000 miles, MAYBE I'd cut them some slack... But as it stands, this is unacceptable at the current price point. The other argument is transparency. If the flight notes listed "Box Lunch," instead of "Lunch," and showed a picture of a boxed lunch instead of a plated meal with glassware, I'd also cut them some slack. Customers should be able to make informed purchasing decisions, anything less is fraudulent and deceitful marketing.

FlyAO2

100%....if the excuse is "because the origin or the destination" isn't ready for meals, then they clearly could note on the flight details if you are getting LUNCH or BOX. The purposely are not giving you that information

acjflyer

Taking an early DTW-IAH flight in First soon. Any recent experiences on what to expect for breakfast?

WileEone

BOS-MIA April 26 2022, 120PM departure, 737-900ER. FEBO observed. I was in row 4 and all 3 choices were available when I was asked: 2 hot dishes (pasta or pastrami sandwich, served with salad and dessert), or cold smoked-salmon salad served with fresh fruit and dessert. I chose the smoked-salmon salad.

I really enjoyed this meal. As you can see from the picture, it was kind of Japanese-esque with cold rice, pickled ginger, radish, vegetable spirals, spinach, tomato, and what seemed more like guacamole than wasabi. There was a small cup of soy sauce. The fruit was flavorful and the dessert excellent. No glassware on this flight.


BOS-MIA Lunch April 26 2022

mot29

Flying LHR-BOS on 5/16 and got the select your meal email a few days ago.
Problem is whenever I tried to select something I got an error message.
Called this morning (8 am UK time) and went almost immediately to an agent who recognized me as a DM.
She managed to get the meal I wanted selected.
At least no hold time!

Aloha1

That seriously needs some shoyu.

Aloha1

MCO-DTW 2 days ago. No PDB, FEBO not followed. Same three choices they've had for the last 2 months: Hot veggie plate (seriously?), Cold Chicken with paprika pineapple, and the horrid fake meat burger ( 500% more sodium than a real burger). I opted for a "glass" of wine only. It was served in an extremely flimsy plastic cup. Enough already, Eddie.

RhinoDL

Still sad box in paid first from ABQ to ATL tonight for flight that departed at 4:45… I thought that nightmare was over?!?

However we did have glass on board

OPENROAD

Early morning flight SJC to SEA, snack basket, because I really want a packet of chips for breakfast, awful stuff.

BavarianFlyer

My this weeks flights on Delta were less then a good flight experience in F, compared to American Airlines. NO PDP, NO Hot Towels before lunch/dinner, mediocre food (had the Impossible Burger on my way down from DEN to ATL, the Short Rib from MCO to SLC) ATL-MCO flight attendant did not want to work and was Impossible, Flight Attendant DEN to ATL was more concerned about a show then service, Flight Attendant from MCO to SLC was snippy as can be, Flight Attendant SLC to DEN did her job but no smile. No name recognition, No Pillows or Blankets. Plus on all flights the seat were worn out to the max and one was sitting on wire.
American does so much better! I had to fly Delta cause of ReLo Package and I upgraded for like $1600 to the $630 they paid for Economy! NOT WORTH a cent!

DiverDave

As it turned out, we had meals. There were three choices, I took the Beyond burger and don't remember the other two choices.

The Beyond burger was pretty edible after I scraped off the cooked onions.

First time flying into SNA so that was also a bit of a treat!

David

xliioper

DL has not brought back pre-flight meal selection on FC routes yet (except possibly some of the JFK/BOS transcon FC routes), so you can't use that to tell if a route will have hot meal options. It's difficult to say whether you will get a hot meal options or cold meal boxes on a route other than by searching this thread by airport code for previous meal reports to determine their catering situation. For example, ABQ, ELP, and TUS currently form a Bermuda triangle which all look to all be getting cold meal boxes from earlier reports.