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Originally Posted by Brian
(Post 17934003)
Writing onboard my home away from home, where the normal snack service has been replaced with full dinner (C): Highlights:
-new menu, with better paper -three entrees, all new, look like pmCO based. Grilled Pork Chop, chicken Osso bucco style, cheese cannelloni -pmUA Style appetizer and salad -garlic bread or roll -ice cream sundae Finally, one change I like. The old snack wasn't bad, but this is a real upgrade. Credit where due...good job UA. PS: new blue straws in the drinks too. One of my co-workers was on your flight last night in the back of the bus; I hope he was able to use the drink chits I gave to him. |
Much improved food quality
The food quality of the dinner was very much improved. This was the best PS dinner I've seen since the very first months of the service.
The appetizer was a bit smaller than those days, but not by too much. It was air dried beef, and a marinated cherry tomato and mozzarella ball on a spear. The salad dressing was a new brand of ranch, and was better than the old dressings. Salad quality was about the same, but three pieces of tomato, plus croutons in a bag. The main pork chop was huge and with a frenched bone in. It was perfectly cooked and really good. It had two excellent sides.. a sort of dressing muffin, and broccolini. Bread choices were new... and I was offered two pieces in the first pass. Dessert was an ice cream sundae with four different toppings choices in a new glass bowl. There was a lot of buzz about the dinner on this flight. More than a few people in C were surprised. The flight attendants were, too. They had no idea till they boarded that they were doing a full dinner on the 8:30PM flight. I'm irritated at United for a hundred things right now... but this is a big step up. I'm usually on this flight once every other week, and it really improves the experience. |
Originally Posted by JerseyCityS
(Post 17934964)
...FA taking orders told the galley FA not to bother passing them out, so they didn't.
I heard the complaining in the galley that yogurt was dropped - they said this is "the new UA"...
Originally Posted by JerseyCityS
(Post 17934964)
...never once did anybody ask if you wanted anything. Very mediocre...
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Originally Posted by PDXPremier
(Post 17937672)
Haven't see the Egg/Sausage McMuffin on UA before and PDX is my home base...it's always been the omelette flight from PDX-DEN...So the new UA now must have 2 different "sizes" of breakfasts...small (for shorter flights like this) and the regular size (omelette) for the other flights like PDX-ORD.
That's the old the CO standard for shorter-haul breakfast flights. So that's a net downgrade on these ones for PMUA flyers. |
Originally Posted by jraindc
(Post 17933394)
2/1
5:45 A.M. PDX-DEN Flight Number #789 A-320 Choice of cereal, yogurt and fruit or Egg/Sausage McMuffin with Fruit Both meals were followed with a hot cinnamon roll. Is this part of the new standard? Nice meal and service. |
I don't get it. The transcon breakfast is essentially the midcon but without yogurt....oh wait it's played differently, you get a menu, and sparkling wine. But really it doesn't make sense. If the entrees in the transcon were different then I could understand the loss of the yogurt....but where is the logic here. Cut my yogurt but give me crappy sparkling wine???
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Originally Posted by Brian
(Post 17938249)
The food quality of the dinner was very much improved. This was the best PS dinner I've seen since the very first months of the service.
The appetizer was a bit smaller than those days, but not by too much. It was air dried beef, and a marinated cherry tomato and mozzarella ball on a spear. How was the wine selection? Did bubbly make it back? |
Originally Posted by cesco.g
(Post 17940123)
Glad to know, things are up. Last month I had the dreaded spring roll for appetizer and a mediocre salmon.
How was the wine selection? Did bubbly make it back? I'm a Bourbon drinker, so all I noted was that a) the wines were different... didn't notice what they were serving, and b) Jim Beam was still my only choice. |
Originally Posted by sb3
(Post 17937824)
01/24/2012 and 01/28/2012
UA 972 - SFO -ORD Business - 3 class Intl aircraft Breakfast and snack. There was not a choice for breakfast. Everyone got eggs/sausage with small fruit bowl and croissant. When did they do away with options? |
On a 3 class bird, J wont get a meal choice, however you get a meal choice in F. Nothing new here.
Originally Posted by sb3
(Post 17937824)
01/24/2012 and 01/28/2012
UA 972 - SFO -ORD Business - 3 class Intl aircraft Breakfast and snack. There was not a choice for breakfast. Everyone got eggs/sausage with small fruit bowl and croissant. When did they do away with options? I miss the fruit/cereal option. Snacks - choice of banana, chocolate, pop chips, clif bar 01/24/2012 and 01/28/2012 UA 907 - ORD - SFO Business - 3 class Intl aircraft Warm nuts then dinner then warm cookie. I think on 01/24 the meal was chicken piccata, no choices. I opted out. Don't recall what was served on 1/28 as I opted out again. |
2/2/12
UA515 SEA-ORD 1:14pm Departure A320 Only offered a cold pasta and chicken plate with fruit and a piece of cheese. Also had a sweetie for dessert (plastic wrapped cookie of some kind). I don't understand why the 11:30am departure SEA-ORD is a "lunch" flight but the 1:15pm departure is a "snack" flight. Makes no sense to me. The food was edible. -RM |
Originally Posted by RobOnLI
(Post 17941770)
I don't understand why the 11:30am departure SEA-ORD is a "lunch" flight but the 1:15pm departure is a "snack" flight.
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6867,51501,00.html |
Originally Posted by United757
(Post 17939938)
Was there no yogurt w/ the hot option? Is that gone now? CO had yogurt in a bowl with their breakfasts. I know that recently UA got rid of the little tub of yogurt with their breakfasts.
My error. Yes, both choices came with a small bowl of yogurt. |
Originally Posted by rch4u
(Post 17941910)
... because that's the policy for flights under 2300 miles. Read it:
http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6867,51501,00.html SEA-ORD at 11:30am gets lunch. SEA-ORD at 1:15pm gets a "snack". Both are the *same* distance. That page you sent me says nothing about what is considered a meal time on UA. I asked the question earlier in this thread and no one replied. -RM |
Originally Posted by JackieC2
(Post 17918562)
Any one know what's served on the ORD-FRA flight? Any ice cream??
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