2012 Let's Eat - Domestic First, BusinessFirst, & Business Class
Jan 15, 2012, 9:18 am
#46
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2 Meals Served
The last time I took the non-stop in F, they served two meals each way:
IAH - ANC:
1. Mid-con Lunch:
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Choice of Chicken Sandwich or Salad with Shrimp
- Minestrone Soup
- Brownie
2. Warm Chocolate Cookies
3. Mid-Con Snack Plate
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Cold Cut, Cheese and Crudites snack plate
- Milano Cookies
- Bowl of Fruit
ANC - IAH
1. Mid-Con Dinner
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Salad with Ranch Dressing & Roll
- Choice of Pasta with Beef or Beef Short Ribs with Potatoes & Veggies
- Raspberry Cheesecake
2. Continental Breakfast
- Croissant w/ Strawberry Preserves & Butter
- Blueberry Yogurt
Overall pretty decent, but nowhere near other 3,200 mile flights. Hope this helps.
IAH - ANC:
1. Mid-con Lunch:
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Choice of Chicken Sandwich or Salad with Shrimp
- Minestrone Soup
- Brownie
2. Warm Chocolate Cookies
3. Mid-Con Snack Plate
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Cold Cut, Cheese and Crudites snack plate
- Milano Cookies
- Bowl of Fruit
ANC - IAH
1. Mid-Con Dinner
- Start with bag of Cashews
- Salad with Ranch Dressing & Roll
- Choice of Pasta with Beef or Beef Short Ribs with Potatoes & Veggies
- Raspberry Cheesecake
2. Continental Breakfast
- Croissant w/ Strawberry Preserves & Butter
- Blueberry Yogurt
Overall pretty decent, but nowhere near other 3,200 mile flights. Hope this helps.
Jan 15, 2012, 9:25 am
#47
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The realigned meal service guidelines could bring improvements to the service, since "most long haul flights" are expected to get sundae service. We shall see.
I flew the nonstop last year in F on the 752 and received the same service as above. Definitely a bit skimpy.
I flew the nonstop last year in F on the 752 and received the same service as above. Definitely a bit skimpy.
Jan 15, 2012, 9:42 am
#48
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Regardless, the whole point of having two meal choices is variety so a person that does not enjoy the contents of one entree can choose to have another. That choice is diminished when both choices have the same meat. It is like saying "Today you have chicken or nothing", and I'm guessing the airline's intent was different than this.
Jan 15, 2012, 9:49 am
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Regardless, the whole point of having two meal choices is variety so a person that does not enjoy the contents of one entree can choose to have another. That choice is diminished when both choices have the same meat. It is like saying "Today you have chicken or nothing", and I'm guessing the airline's intent was different than this.
Jan 15, 2012, 10:07 am
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EWR764, I sure hope so, but not holding my breath on that one. Most of the service announcements so far have been somewhat vague in terms of execution and generally compromises between both airlines existing service standards.
I guess as a comparison, what do some of the other airlines such as DL, AA or US do service-wise in F on long flights to ANC from DFW, ATL (seasonal/discontinued) and PHL (seasonal/discontinued)? Thanks.
I guess as a comparison, what do some of the other airlines such as DL, AA or US do service-wise in F on long flights to ANC from DFW, ATL (seasonal/discontinued) and PHL (seasonal/discontinued)? Thanks.
Jan 15, 2012, 10:11 am
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US has one meal service on the PHX-ANC flight and nothing on the ANC-PHX flight, even though the return arrives back in PHX at 8am...
EWR764, I sure hope so, but not holding my breath on that one. Most of the service announcements so far have been somewhat vague in terms of execution and generally compromises between both airlines existing service standards.
I guess as a comparison, what do some of the other airlines such as DL, AA or US do service-wise in F on long flights to ANC from DFW, ATL (seasonal/discontinued) and PHL (seasonal/discontinued)? Thanks.
I guess as a comparison, what do some of the other airlines such as DL, AA or US do service-wise in F on long flights to ANC from DFW, ATL (seasonal/discontinued) and PHL (seasonal/discontinued)? Thanks.
Jan 15, 2012, 11:19 am
#52
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Flight/Route: CO1605/IAH-LAX
Aircraft/Seat: 737/1A (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 11:30am/ ~3.25 hours
Meal: Lunch
Started with a bag of almonds then had choice of shrimp salad (cold shrimp on lettuce essentially or chicken Parmesan sandwich).
All were served with mushroom soup, milano cookies, bread/butter, and nice sliced fruit plate
Flight/Route: UA370/LAX-HNL
Aircraft/Seat: 767/1F (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 5pm/ ~5.5 hours
Meal: Dinner
Started with hot nuts served at the seat. Then served bread and salad followed a few minutes later by dinner. Choice of Macademia nut crusted chicken or seabass with asian vegetables...went with the seabass and it was great. Then came around with one rather small fresh baked cookie per person. They had mai tais and champagne on this flight being island service which was nice. FAs were very attentive but would have liked to see a snack even if pretzels and peanuts later in the flight before landing.
Aircraft/Seat: 737/1A (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 11:30am/ ~3.25 hours
Meal: Lunch
Started with a bag of almonds then had choice of shrimp salad (cold shrimp on lettuce essentially or chicken Parmesan sandwich).
All were served with mushroom soup, milano cookies, bread/butter, and nice sliced fruit plate
Flight/Route: UA370/LAX-HNL
Aircraft/Seat: 767/1F (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 5pm/ ~5.5 hours
Meal: Dinner
Started with hot nuts served at the seat. Then served bread and salad followed a few minutes later by dinner. Choice of Macademia nut crusted chicken or seabass with asian vegetables...went with the seabass and it was great. Then came around with one rather small fresh baked cookie per person. They had mai tais and champagne on this flight being island service which was nice. FAs were very attentive but would have liked to see a snack even if pretzels and peanuts later in the flight before landing.
Jan 15, 2012, 11:44 am
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Jan 15, 2012, 1:16 pm
#54
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Will these new guidelines take place before July 2012[/U]
Jan 15, 2012, 1:51 pm
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ORD-EWR (CO1574) on January 15
No selection of meal.
Monterey Chicken sandwich - actually fairly good, but too messy to eat as a sandwich
Cream of mushroom soup - I don't like mushrooms, but don't mind the flavor. The soup was horrible in my opinion.
Fruit plate - nice mix of fresh fruit (cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, grapes, grapefruit)
Flavored almonds
Cookies
Robert Mondavi Red - I don't know if it was reserve or the year as I chose a Chardonney I had never heard of, which was okay.
Very attentive flight attendants. Routinely were around refilling drinks and making sure everyone was okay.
No selection of meal.
Monterey Chicken sandwich - actually fairly good, but too messy to eat as a sandwich
Cream of mushroom soup - I don't like mushrooms, but don't mind the flavor. The soup was horrible in my opinion.
Fruit plate - nice mix of fresh fruit (cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, grapes, grapefruit)
Flavored almonds
Cookies
Robert Mondavi Red - I don't know if it was reserve or the year as I chose a Chardonney I had never heard of, which was okay.
Very attentive flight attendants. Routinely were around refilling drinks and making sure everyone was okay.
Jan 15, 2012, 8:22 pm
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was this a UA or CO 767?
Flight/Route: UA370/LAX-HNL
Aircraft/Seat: 767/1F (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 5pm/ ~5.5 hours
Meal: Dinner
Started with hot nuts served at the seat. Then served bread and salad followed a few minutes later by dinner. Choice of Macademia nut crusted chicken or seabass with asian vegetables...went with the seabass and it was great. Then came around with one rather small fresh baked cookie per person. They had mai tais and champagne on this flight being island service which was nice. FAs were very attentive but would have liked to see a snack even if pretzels and peanuts later in the flight before landing.
Aircraft/Seat: 767/1F (domestic first class)
Departure Time/Duration: 5pm/ ~5.5 hours
Meal: Dinner
Started with hot nuts served at the seat. Then served bread and salad followed a few minutes later by dinner. Choice of Macademia nut crusted chicken or seabass with asian vegetables...went with the seabass and it was great. Then came around with one rather small fresh baked cookie per person. They had mai tais and champagne on this flight being island service which was nice. FAs were very attentive but would have liked to see a snack even if pretzels and peanuts later in the flight before landing.
Jan 15, 2012, 10:03 pm
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UA. A CO 767 would be BF, not F.
Jan 16, 2012, 3:05 pm
#58
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01/14/12
UA863
JFK-SFO
B757-200
PS C Dinner
To start
Warm mixed nuts (got the full mixed nuts, not just the cashews)
http://i40.tinypic.com/w1sghe.jpg
Appetizer
Green salad w/ asian dressing, a spring roll (which was absolutely tasteless---yuck!) and a choice of wheat or harvest dinner roll.
Hey, United, just out of curiosity-have you guys ever heard of sourdough bread? Or anything that's not whole grain? Maybe Michelle Obama is designing the menus? :-P
http://i43.tinypic.com/23sdi0i.jpg
Dinner Entree
A choice of: short rib, spinach lasagna roll, and 3rd can't remember. Got the short rib.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2itnbyb.jpg
Dessert
Ice cream sundae. I believe it was strawberry and vanilla. The whipped cream is a nice touch. They used real whip from the can too (not Cool Whip)
http://i44.tinypic.com/16bx3kj.jpg
Followed by a cranberry cookie (not pictured).
Overall a good service and my first PS dinner flight. Compared with AA I'd say AA is a notch upward with a much better appetizer (usually proscuitto w/ melon or shrimp with rice noodles), and chocolate chip cookies instead of the cranberry. UA also seems to use a standard domestic salad rather than an upgraded one.
I did find UA's ice cream bowl with real whip was tastier than AA's.
UA863
JFK-SFO
B757-200
PS C Dinner
To start
Warm mixed nuts (got the full mixed nuts, not just the cashews)
http://i40.tinypic.com/w1sghe.jpg
Appetizer
Green salad w/ asian dressing, a spring roll (which was absolutely tasteless---yuck!) and a choice of wheat or harvest dinner roll.
Hey, United, just out of curiosity-have you guys ever heard of sourdough bread? Or anything that's not whole grain? Maybe Michelle Obama is designing the menus? :-P
http://i43.tinypic.com/23sdi0i.jpg
Dinner Entree
A choice of: short rib, spinach lasagna roll, and 3rd can't remember. Got the short rib.
http://i39.tinypic.com/2itnbyb.jpg
Dessert
Ice cream sundae. I believe it was strawberry and vanilla. The whipped cream is a nice touch. They used real whip from the can too (not Cool Whip)
http://i44.tinypic.com/16bx3kj.jpg
Followed by a cranberry cookie (not pictured).
Overall a good service and my first PS dinner flight. Compared with AA I'd say AA is a notch upward with a much better appetizer (usually proscuitto w/ melon or shrimp with rice noodles), and chocolate chip cookies instead of the cranberry. UA also seems to use a standard domestic salad rather than an upgraded one.
I did find UA's ice cream bowl with real whip was tastier than AA's.
Jan 16, 2012, 7:20 pm
#59
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DCA / IAH
CO 1639 DCA/IAH
6:00 am
PDB served
Hot towel service
Choice of cereal or cheese omelette
Served with yoghurt, fruit bowl, and (with omelette) sausage patties & potato/brocolli casserole
Biscuits or cinnamon roll
CO 1285 IAH/DCA
2:45 pm
PDB served
Hot towel service
Packaged almonds - no hot nuts
Choice of shrimp Caesar salad or chicken parm pocket
Served with minestrone, fruit bowl, hard roll, and Milano cookies
WARNING: Rogue PMCO FAs do not take orders by status, just front to back
(after a bit of a fuss, they did comp a snack from the back)
6:00 am
PDB served
Hot towel service
Choice of cereal or cheese omelette
Served with yoghurt, fruit bowl, and (with omelette) sausage patties & potato/brocolli casserole
Biscuits or cinnamon roll
CO 1285 IAH/DCA
2:45 pm
PDB served
Hot towel service
Packaged almonds - no hot nuts
Choice of shrimp Caesar salad or chicken parm pocket
Served with minestrone, fruit bowl, hard roll, and Milano cookies
WARNING: Rogue PMCO FAs do not take orders by status, just front to back
(after a bit of a fuss, they did comp a snack from the back)
Jan 16, 2012, 7:59 pm
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