I see the Snack Breakfast now on some of my flights -- although they still lie at Lunch time since it says "Lunch" for the return flights.

The best way to check these in my experience is to go to the SPECIAL SERVICES and try to select a special meal....if it doesn't work, plan on enjoying a sandwich from home while paying DL full price

I flew an AA breakfast flight yesterday (LAS-DFW). It was a very good meal. And beautifully plated. Unlike the above photo. So often Delta meals look like the people assembling them just throw stuff on the plates. Crustless frittata with diced sweet potatoes and broiled cherry tomatoes. Fresh fruit-blueberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, honeydew melon. All ripe. And a scone with butter. Far superior to what Delta offers. I preordered, and don’t remember the other choices. But my seatmate had a smoked salmon plate accompanied by a bagel and fresh fruit that I would have been happy with.

Mushroom ravioli DTW-SLC lunch. Catered by Do&Co.

Here’s the Lemon Chicken that has been reported on several times already. I really wanted to like this meal based on favorable reviews. But to me, it really gave off a “processed” flavor. That said, the chicken was bone-in and one of the better preparations I’ve had on airplanes. Not dry or rubbery. The potatoes were nothing special, and the broccolini was just average. The salad was odd and mostly tasteless, even with the pesto. Mostly just enjoyed the burrata. That said, the cannolis were excellent! One of the best desserts I’ve had on delta.

The FA seemed to be encouraging people to switch to the crab and shrimp salad. Those that did seemed to enjoy it. The other choice was the pizza, which smelled amazing!

Great service from the ATL crew.

Found this gem on my HNL-JFK flight. The FA told me she found it way back in cabinet. I wonder if it was for International flights as I've never seen it on domestic flights.

Jordan 2018 Cab

Flew MSP-PSP and got the box! This is a 1400-mile flight that departs at 9am. I know there is catering in MSP; what's going on?

Any flight that goes to and from a “box station” (aka no catering facilities ) gets double catered at the hub with the cold boxed meals. Pretty pathetic if you ask me since DL would always double cater plated meals pre-COVID out of hubs to outstations with no catering but I guess this is the new DL experience along with being cheap in PS and serving the new “enhanced” entrees in Y style cardboard bowls.

It's not acceptable. They have every ability to properly cater from MSP. I spent a lot of miles to purchase first-class seats as a treat for our vacation, and I'll be writing to Delta and asking for a partial refund of those miles. I knew there were still some sad boxes out there, but it never occurred to me that they would serve them on one of the longest domestic routes from MSP, a major hub, on mainline fleet.

I’m assuming that the new seasonal MSP-VPS flight is going to be sad boxes because of a lack of catering on the VPS side. (Route is scheduled to exist as of April because Sun Country is also trying MSP-VPS)

January ATL-GIG-ATL


Barbecue Short Rib, was really good.

Standard Breakfast

Really enjoyed the Omelet.

Hot roast beef sandwich...just ok, meat not greatest texture

Desert post lunch

Oh wow! Totally wish we could get a seasonal MSP-ECP route as it would help with ANC connections. But would of course be in the same boat as VPS with catering.

VPS-MSP seems well set up for onward connections and keeps showing up in my flight searches this summer-I’m even booked on a VPS-MSP-JAC ticket that will be double sad box day if the upgrades clear- but MSP-VPS departs at 10:10am and would only really work coming off a red eye or long haul for inbound connections.

(Local advice- Skip the sad box for MSP-VPS and then grab a substantial lunch at Doc’s Oyster Bar in Valparaiso on a bayou not too far from the airport once you get in.)

Looks like February non-D1 TCON menu is the same (flying ATL - SJC next week). Guess I need to decide whether to go chicken or the pizza -- something about a shrimp/crab combo on a plane has me wary (just shrimp I'd probably be okay with it).

Flying for work so may end up going pizza and just eating during the layover and treating the pizza as a snack.

preselect LAX-HNL

same menu for SEA-CVG. Yawn*