SkyTeam777

Cool, didn't know about that. what is the flight time or distance required to have this type of CE service?

SkyTeam777

Has anyone ordered an Asian Veg meal on longhaul SAS? I want to enjoy the a la carte service from the service cart? but am afraid if I order a special meal, it will be served all at once ona boring tray. Anyone have experience with this? Do FAs still let you enjoy the appetizers/desserts/cheese from the service carts as well? or only the vegetarian meal assigned to you?

klmml

See this thread. The only "long" Nordic destinations are ARN and HEL.

fassy

I had about 10 short-haul flights on TAP in J Germany-LIS and back in the last few weeks. Besides being ridiculous cheap (booked my trip this week Monday-Wednesday last Friday for under 400€, including the HAM-MUC flight on LH, return direct) I am really impressed on the quality of the meal service. Last trip they served a perfect steak, medium-rare with nice sweet potato mash and a fantastic sauce, on the way back fantastic shrimps und this Monday Tortellini Carbonars.

Every single time very tasty, fresh, great to look at and served with a smile. Add really nice (but probably not that expensive) red to it and it made a serving which outshines SK long-haul by miles.

So, it CAN be done. Most carriers just don't want to... and SK being on the list of worst meal offenders with sky high pricing.

To bad TPs long haul fleet is not yet fully fitted with new cabins. Otherwise I might give them some business after these last few weeks. And the free stopover on LIS is not too bad as well. Very nice city.

AStarr

I had the same menu on my flight from EWR-CPH as I did IAD-CPH in March/April. No biggie - I didn't get my first choice on the first flight for apps or entrees. What I had was still good though. I'm very entertained by the food on this airline in a good way for the most part. Though, I'm hoping my next long hauls with SAS will change the menu... I thought it was maybe a bit odd to encounter the same menu twice but that could have been due to not having so much time (about a month) in between flights

Menu for both returns to CPH


For IAD-CPH
Prawn appetiser: one of the prawns was not quite perfect, but the other was


Chicken entree: much better than it looked, I was surprised. Texture worked out well for everything



For EWR-CPH
This was the scallop app. I really enjoyed the scallops but found it all to be a bit on the bland side somehow... I was hoping for more flavour excitement.


The halibut entree. I would eat this again in a heartbeat.


For CPH-EWR
I guess I forgot to snap photos... but I did get one of the dab fillet entree. It was mediocre. Should've gone with the chicken and chorizo. Definitely had the mushy airplane food thing going on but the flavour was solid. As was all the champagne and Sauternes I ended up drinking... oops... never thought I'd like sweet wine?

FlyingMoose

Interesting, the chicken picture does not look to terrible. I have literally never seen a prawn starter on SK flights, you got lucky! I do get the scallops a lot but they are usually tasteless, which is unfortunate as they are some of my favourite starter options.

The rest looks pretty bland, would opt of the Halibut perhaps but the presentation is terrible.

AStarr

I was really pleasantly surprised by the halibut given my other experiences with fish on SAS ^.^ the only other airline I've had fish is Icelandair and they do a good job with salmon or arctic char (granted, that's hard to screw up from my experience); SAS should maybe consider a more meaty fish...

I'm not picky on presentation so much as just hoping it's served in a way that might spill less in the case of minor turbulence ^.^

One fun thing I've noticed is they are very proactive on drinks. I've had up to five glasses at once on that table... it seems excessive and entertaining at the same time. I also seem to luck out with cabin crew. I've had a range from sweet, funny, chirpy, and almost silly to grandmotherly and concerned.

FlyingMoose

When flying FI it is impossible not to take the Icelandic lamb. It is absolutely amazing.

I get the 'grandmotherly' category a lot, rarely (never) also concerned.

AALkiwi

Gold lounge in CPH has hot food - big trays of 'chicken breast'. Is this a new thing or been around a while? Been a month or so since my last connection through CPH.

DoTheBartMan

I had the "Wagyu brisket" on my flight from ORD a couple of days ago, but it was one of the worst pieces of meat I have ever had. It was so overdone and dry that there was no way that anyone could enjoy it. It was an insult to wagyu meat.

SK2751

CPH lounge has these warm meals for several month now. I found most of them barely edible though . I still stick to well salted soups, bread, salmon, and salads, but perhaps this is my bad taste. I find the chicken, burger patties, etc. very synthetic in taste.

nacho

I didn't dare to try the burgers either, to make things worse they took away the nice cup noodles at CPH lounge.

fassy

They still have the cup noodles but you need to ask to get them handed out from the kitchen staff

nacho

I actually did ask - last time it was late April (I asked once Early April already) they said no more cup noodles and told me to write to SK to complain about it. I even told them that we got it in February and they said they cut that recently.

My kids were so disappointed.

FlyingMoose

Meal on SK936 was terrible and arguably the smallest portion size I've ever had on an airplane ever. No beef option so took the next best meat choice which was a sausage the size of a teaspoon. Was denied a second main, despite plenty being packed to be thrown on arrival.

Surprisingly the ARN lounge currently has a pulled pork warm choice option which is very edible.