Business class meals on TAP middle haul
Mar 1, 2023, 3:01 am
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Business class meals on TAP middle haul
Hi,
I will be forced to fly with TAP in a couple of weeks (forced because I've been hating them from the day they lost my luggage then had it stolen under their surveillance and are refusing to compensate) and I'm wondering about catering in Executive Class on middle-haul flights.
I used to have hot meals with them (Paris-Lisbon) but had recent feedbacks telling me it was not the case anymore. Did they discontinue hot meals ? Do they service it only at certain times of the day ?
Thanks for your help.
I will be forced to fly with TAP in a couple of weeks (forced because I've been hating them from the day they lost my luggage then had it stolen under their surveillance and are refusing to compensate) and I'm wondering about catering in Executive Class on middle-haul flights.
I used to have hot meals with them (Paris-Lisbon) but had recent feedbacks telling me it was not the case anymore. Did they discontinue hot meals ? Do they service it only at certain times of the day ?
Thanks for your help.
Mar 1, 2023, 3:49 am
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Generally you should get hot meals in Executive cabins, as a general statement, even some domestic services have them. But there will be variations depending on the route and time of day, so shorter flights very late at night will be ambient temperature meals, and some night stops also have restrictions on the return sector. On mid haul services, there will normally be hot food.
Mar 1, 2023, 4:11 am
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Generally you should get hot meals in Executive cabins, as a general statement, even some domestic services have them. But there will be variations depending on the route and time of day, so shorter flights very late at night will be ambient temperature meals, and some night stops also have restrictions on the return sector. On mid haul services, there will normally be hot food.
Mar 1, 2023, 4:23 am
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It seems that from ORY to LIS hot meals are served only at lunch and dinner hours.
By the way should I expect the same if the flight is operated by TAP Express (Portugalia) ?
By the way should I expect the same if the flight is operated by TAP Express (Portugalia) ?
Mar 1, 2023, 5:17 am
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Mar 1, 2023, 6:36 am
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The rule is that hot meals are served at meal times (lunch and dinner) in all flights, except LIS-OPO, LIS-MAD and other short flights, and at all times in longer flights (3h or longer).
Mar 1, 2023, 7:20 am
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Mar 1, 2023, 5:49 pm
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Mar 2, 2023, 1:45 am
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Mar 2, 2023, 3:37 am
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To be fair, you haven't disclosed the route either, so no one here can say "yes I was on that flight and yes there was a hot meal served". Mid-haul is usually meant to be 4 hours or longer, such as LIS-TLV or Cape Verde locations, and it's not clear that your flight is of that length.
Mar 3, 2023, 12:35 am
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To be fair, you haven't disclosed the route either, so no one here can say "yes I was on that flight and yes there was a hot meal served". Mid-haul is usually meant to be 4 hours or longer, such as LIS-TLV or Cape Verde locations, and it's not clear that your flight is of that length.
Mar 3, 2023, 2:36 am
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OK, that's a 90 minute flight, if departing at 11:00 it arrives at 13:30 due to the time zones. It's not really mid haul, LIS-PDL is slightly further and that's domestic. I would personally guess that it won't have hot food but hopefully I'm wrong!
Mar 3, 2023, 5:07 am
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CWS, it's rather 2h30. In any case, the cold meal option is filling and high quality. Better than what AF serves in the same route and what LH serves in routes of similar length (and at all times, not only outside meal times).
Last edited by tff; Mar 3, 2023 at 5:33 am
Mar 3, 2023, 11:10 am
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A similar question for LIS-FLR on Portugalia E190 at 7:10am & 2h50m flight - should we expect anything decent in business or plan to grab something at the airport? I'm guessing it'll be a continental breakfast based on the comments above, but not sure how good/bad they are.
Mar 3, 2023, 12:38 pm
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EU Airbus is hot (delicious) at mealtimes (you can choose your dish in advance, got an email a week ahead, had recently the best lamb chops ever on a plane) and Embraer cold, both with excellent ever changing wines, including bubbles and Port - all of Portuguese excellence. Can not wait to try their A330neo, they have an all Airbus fleet which is a good thing (except Portugalia's Embraer). Good to be spared historic B737 and noisy B777.
