Jul 18, 2022, 11:37 am
Last edit by: lkrt
On ARN flights, a cold sandwich with beverages is served. On all other SH flights, the service includes "a hot main meal, something sweet and beverages".
Beverages include sparkling wine (Bernard-Massard Cuvée de l'Ecusson), white wine, red wine, beer, cognac, whiskey, vodka, cream liquor and soft drinks.
Iberia-operated MAD and BCN flights have Iberia service with starter, hot meal and proper dessert. On these flights, a different set of beverages is served (IB selection).
Destinations with sandwich:
ARN
Destinations with hot meal only (no starter) and something sweet:
AMS BER BGO BLL BLQ BRU BUD CPH DBV DUS FRA GOT HAM KRK MUC NAP NCE OSL PRG SPU TOS TRD VCE VIE VNO WAW ZAG
Destinations with starter, hot meal and something sweet:
AGP ALC CDG DUB EDI FCO GVA KEF LHR LIN LIS MAN MXP OPO TLV
SPML - Special meals, examples and links (incomplete list)
SFML - Seafood meal, eg Salmon lasagna, Smoked salmon. Discontinued as of 23-09-27
VLML - Lacto-ovo vegetarian meal. Example 2
RVML - Raw Vegetarian meal. Discontinued as of 23-09-27
VGML - Vegetarian / Vegan
FPML - Fruit platter meal
Beverages include sparkling wine (Bernard-Massard Cuvée de l'Ecusson), white wine, red wine, beer, cognac, whiskey, vodka, cream liquor and soft drinks.
Iberia-operated MAD and BCN flights have Iberia service with starter, hot meal and proper dessert. On these flights, a different set of beverages is served (IB selection).
Destinations with sandwich:
ARN
Destinations with hot meal only (no starter) and something sweet:
AMS BER BGO BLL BLQ BRU BUD CPH DBV DUS FRA GOT HAM KRK MUC NAP NCE OSL PRG SPU TOS TRD VCE VIE VNO WAW ZAG
Destinations with starter, hot meal and something sweet:
AGP ALC CDG DUB EDI FCO GVA KEF LHR LIN LIS MAN MXP OPO TLV
SPML - Special meals, examples and links (incomplete list)
SFML - Seafood meal, eg Salmon lasagna, Smoked salmon. Discontinued as of 23-09-27
VLML - Lacto-ovo vegetarian meal. Example 2
RVML - Raw Vegetarian meal. Discontinued as of 23-09-27
VGML - Vegetarian / Vegan
FPML - Fruit platter meal
Finnair Shorthaul Business Class Food
Apr 26, 2017, 12:19 pm
#451
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Apr 26, 2017, 2:09 pm
#453
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Do you perhaps mean this? Scrambled eggs, deep fried mozzarella cake (I was told, but somehow my deep suspision based on structure and taste is it was hash brown!!!), tomato sause and chicken sausage. Quite OK actually. If yours was the same, their quality is not consistent, which actually anyway seems to be the case. Yep, no bread plate.
I took the Pepsi challenge twice and both times I chose Pepsi instead of Coke. I still never buy Pepsi because Coke is better despite of the result. So I really don't think the Marli Juice is an improvement.
The strawberry is a nice addition to the fruit salad.
Apr 26, 2017, 3:08 pm
#454
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Savings target: find a cheaper drink
Solution step 1: Offer a #1 lousier cheaper one for some time
Solution step 2: Offer a one step further #2 lousier product
People start get loud complaining about quality
Solution step 3: Offer again the #1 lousy drink and people are happy enough to accept it compared to #2 lousy product, giving away the original drink
Apr 28, 2017, 4:31 pm
#455
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Flew HEL-MAD in J today, and lo and behold, there was a dessert! One of these https://www.fazer.fi/tuotteet-ja-asi...ka-2-kpl140-g/ Fazer blueberry pies (the two-pack costs €0.99 in Alepa when they have a campaign). 
The main course salmon was actually quite good, though.
The main course salmon was actually quite good, though.
Apr 28, 2017, 5:07 pm
#456
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Flew HEL-MAD in J today, and lo and behold, there was a dessert! One of these https://www.fazer.fi/tuotteet-ja-asi...ka-2-kpl140-g/ Fazer blueberry pies (the two-pack costs €0.99 in Alepa when they have a campaign).
The main course salmon was actually quite good, though.
The main course salmon was actually quite good, though.
Apr 28, 2017, 5:44 pm
#457
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The Spanish crew on the MAD flight were great. And I especially appreciated the fact that the purser had learnt a couple of words of Finnish and wasn't afraid to use them. If only the couple travelling in 1AC hadn't drunk up all the Bombay Sapphire (and most of the Beefeater, too)...
Apr 29, 2017, 6:35 am
#458
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I like those small pies, too, and have bought them every once in a while. They're a bargain. Which sort of makes them contradict with the "tasokas ateriakokonaisuus" sales pitch – I guess I'm still living in a past where €0.99, Alepa and AY J don't go together like a horse and carriage. And yes, I missed the plate, too.
May 2, 2017, 9:30 am
#459
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Got a reply from Finnair regarding my feedback about missing menus, desserts and subpar main courses. They were sorry that I did not like the offerings and told that they develope in flight service according the the feedback from customers.
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
May 2, 2017, 12:42 pm
#460
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Got a reply from Finnair regarding my feedback about missing menus, desserts and subpar main courses. They were sorry that I did not like the offerings and told that they develope in flight service according the the feedback from customers.
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
May 2, 2017, 11:18 pm
#461
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Got a reply from Finnair regarding my feedback about missing menus, desserts and subpar main courses. They were sorry that I did not like the offerings and told that they develope in flight service according the the feedback from customers.
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
I wonder who has wrote them to get rid off menus and desserts - anyone here
- I wasn't completely disstatistied about the food (gave them 4/10)
- that hard product is more important than a soft product
I guess they came to the conclusion they could remove the dessert and menus as it is clearly not top of mind and there is still some room to downgrade...
Sorry guys
May 2, 2017, 11:28 pm
#462
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Once again flew TK shorthaul in J and got "spoiled by" their menu and J seats, compared to what I get on AY and others...if only other airlines realized the potential of that, I would book more J for shorthaul definitely.
IST being "mislocated" for effective EU travel, despite that, offering sub 600€ J flights with great menu and seating, while AY offering >600€ J tickets with 3+3 seating and miserable menu. How is that...
IST being "mislocated" for effective EU travel, despite that, offering sub 600€ J flights with great menu and seating, while AY offering >600€ J tickets with 3+3 seating and miserable menu. How is that...
May 3, 2017, 12:04 am
#463
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May 3, 2017, 1:31 am
#464
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Once again flew TK shorthaul in J and got "spoiled by" their menu and J seats, compared to what I get on AY and others...if only other airlines realized the potential of that, I would book more J for shorthaul definitely.
IST being "mislocated" for effective EU travel, despite that, offering sub 600€ J flights with great menu and seating, while AY offering >600€ J tickets with 3+3 seating and miserable menu. How is that...
IST being "mislocated" for effective EU travel, despite that, offering sub 600€ J flights with great menu and seating, while AY offering >600€ J tickets with 3+3 seating and miserable menu. How is that...
May 3, 2017, 9:26 am
#465
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After following the discussions here, it's finally time for me to contribute. We flew AMS-HEL in J May 1st evening and had ordered special food (AVML). As usual, the asian style vegetarian food was overall quite OK, but since all the special meals get same tray, dessert was naturally gluten free. It's hard to put this 'May 1st / vappu special' in words, so please see the picture... (Sorry for large image, but I wanted to make text readable).
We deemed the dessert inedible and purser kindly got us default one from extra trays they had on-board, so we enjoyed the infamous piece of Fazer chocolate!
I emailed my feedback to AY Plus and already got a reply and 5000p. Since Finnair is in process getting catering back to Finnair group (https://company.finnair.com/en/media...ews?id=2522769), maybe there will be a real review of the meals. At least one can hope so.
We deemed the dessert inedible and purser kindly got us default one from extra trays they had on-board, so we enjoyed the infamous piece of Fazer chocolate!
I emailed my feedback to AY Plus and already got a reply and 5000p. Since Finnair is in process getting catering back to Finnair group (https://company.finnair.com/en/media...ews?id=2522769), maybe there will be a real review of the meals. At least one can hope so.