Oct 14, 2015, 3:37 pm
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UA Press Release dated October 14 2015.
Oct 25: PS menus get upgraded and look delicious
Nov 1: Domestic first flights between 1:30 and 3:59pm that are more than 3 hours get lunch
Nov 1: Hawaii and transcon redeyes get dinner service
Beginning Nov. 1, the airline will refresh lunch and dinner choices for United First and United Business customers on flights throughout the U.S. and Canada, and to Mexico, Caribbean and Latin America leisure markets.
United-operated flights that currently offer meal service will addnew dishes, like Spanish paella, mushroom risotto and seafood cioppino on shorter dinner flights.
Meal window expansion
The carrier will also expand meals to:
Lunch flights longer than three hours, departing between 1:30 and 3:59 p.m., which will offer options that include seasonal entree salads like a Napa salad with grilled salmon, goat cheese and fig and an arugula salad with Milanese-style chicken; and
Late-night flights between Hawaii and Houston, Chicago, New York/Newark and Washington, which will offer full dinner service with new entrees, such as hoisin short ribs with wasabi grits and stir-fried vegetables.
Late-night non-p.s. transcontinental flights and service between Hawaii and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver, as well as other late-departing flights of at least five hours and 20 minutes, will offer hearty sandwiches after takeoff, such as a pretzel burger with bleu cheese dressing, arugula and pickled onions, followed by warmed pastries before arrival.
United will continue to offer its p.s. made-to-order sundaes for dessert, followed by bake-on-board cookies prior to arrival.
Oct 25: PS menus get upgraded and look delicious
Nov 1: Domestic first flights between 1:30 and 3:59pm that are more than 3 hours get lunch
Nov 1: Hawaii and transcon redeyes get dinner service
Beginning Nov. 1, the airline will refresh lunch and dinner choices for United First and United Business customers on flights throughout the U.S. and Canada, and to Mexico, Caribbean and Latin America leisure markets.
United-operated flights that currently offer meal service will addnew dishes, like Spanish paella, mushroom risotto and seafood cioppino on shorter dinner flights.
Meal window expansion
The carrier will also expand meals to:
Lunch flights longer than three hours, departing between 1:30 and 3:59 p.m., which will offer options that include seasonal entree salads like a Napa salad with grilled salmon, goat cheese and fig and an arugula salad with Milanese-style chicken; and
Late-night flights between Hawaii and Houston, Chicago, New York/Newark and Washington, which will offer full dinner service with new entrees, such as hoisin short ribs with wasabi grits and stir-fried vegetables.
Late-night non-p.s. transcontinental flights and service between Hawaii and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver, as well as other late-departing flights of at least five hours and 20 minutes, will offer hearty sandwiches after takeoff, such as a pretzel burger with bleu cheese dressing, arugula and pickled onions, followed by warmed pastries before arrival.
United will continue to offer its p.s. made-to-order sundaes for dessert, followed by bake-on-board cookies prior to arrival.
Hi everyone,
As a follow-up to our recent news release about investments we’re making in dining onboard and in our United Clubs, we have a number of details to share about changes coming this weekend to every cabin on many of our North and Latin America flights, to offer you restaurant-quality meals. These latest upgrades come in addition to those we made October 25 to premium-cabin dining on our p.s. Premium Service.
For a more in-depth look at the investment we’re making in our food, UnitedAirtime.com now includes insightful foodie stories and a new video about why we want the food we serve to be exciting and interesting – something we’re working on in partnership with The Trotter Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring new generations of culinary minds.
Here are some highlights of menu changes on flights within the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and leisure markets in Mexico; which will be reflected beginning November 2 on our united.com North America premium-cabin dining page and Choice Menu page:
p.s. Premium Service enhancements beginning October 25:
Premium-cabin dining changes beginning November 1:
We hope many of you have the opportunity to experience these new dining options and we look forward to hearing from you.
-UA Insider
As a follow-up to our recent news release about investments we’re making in dining onboard and in our United Clubs, we have a number of details to share about changes coming this weekend to every cabin on many of our North and Latin America flights, to offer you restaurant-quality meals. These latest upgrades come in addition to those we made October 25 to premium-cabin dining on our p.s. Premium Service.
For a more in-depth look at the investment we’re making in our food, UnitedAirtime.com now includes insightful foodie stories and a new video about why we want the food we serve to be exciting and interesting – something we’re working on in partnership with The Trotter Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring new generations of culinary minds.
Here are some highlights of menu changes on flights within the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, and leisure markets in Mexico; which will be reflected beginning November 2 on our united.com North America premium-cabin dining page and Choice Menu page:
p.s. Premium Service enhancements beginning October 25:
Premium-cabin dining changes beginning November 1:
-New seasonal entrée salads with refreshed protein component served on the side
-New side salads and transcon/Hawaii starter salads
-The United Business cabin on three-cabin aircraft will offer all entrée choices served in the United First cabin
-United Express two-cabin regional jet service will also offer new premium-cabin lunch, dinner and snacks, and expanded lunch meal service to flights longer than three hours
Choice Menu Bistro on Board changes beginning November 1 We hope many of you have the opportunity to experience these new dining options and we look forward to hearing from you.
-UA Insider
Starting Oct 25 '15 UA PS/HNL long-haul redeyes/mid-cons will feature BETTER options!
Feb 2, 2015, 11:06 am
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Feb 2, 2015, 11:35 am
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Interesting. We had no bread plate, but it could have been a catering misload.
The FA mentioned that the salad was supposed to be served with soup, but they didn't load the soup, so the salad came with a side salad.
Probably a teething item, but overall seems like an improvement based on this data point.
The FA mentioned that the salad was supposed to be served with soup, but they didn't load the soup, so the salad came with a side salad.
Probably a teething item, but overall seems like an improvement based on this data point.
Feb 2, 2015, 11:37 am
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You're linking to the webpage, not the image itself-right click on the image itself and click "copy image URL", and it will contain a .JPG/.PNG/etc indicating that it is an image file instead of a webpage
Feb 2, 2015, 12:02 pm
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Thanks. .the links work but they still don't display on my tablet without clicking on each.
Feb 2, 2015, 12:06 pm
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I do like the non-mealtime snack plate with cous cous, olives, hummus. I just wish they'd ditch the blue cheese (or put it on the side) - gross. Dodging the blue cheese crumbles trying to find the remaining cous cous is not an easy task!
Feb 2, 2015, 1:11 pm
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i flew UA1265 last night but didn't get upgraded and couldn't make out from my E+ seat what was being served in F. i also did not care. i was too busy nursing my wounds from the 4+ hours in slimlines between that and my inbound connecting flight segment.
Feb 2, 2015, 1:36 pm
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Feb 2, 2015, 1:42 pm
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Last night I was on UA1166, the 9:09pm IAH-LAX, which used to get the cold plate, but now got the snack basket...and after the second pass, the basket was out of almost everything, which made for interesting moments when other F passengers asked for more snacks, only to be told that there was none to be had.
Feb 2, 2015, 1:56 pm
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We got the cheeseburger on the Redeye PS Flight from SFO-JFK on Jan 25th. This was more food for the redeye than the previous cold plate so that was helpful. It also worked out better because they had cancelled our flights for the following morning, so we had to scramble straight from the stage to the airport and didn't have a chance to eat anything. The cabin was dark at the time, so I couldn't tell you what it looked like, but was tasty enough 
Feb 2, 2015, 1:57 pm
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Now I'm on iah to ewr in F scheduled 231pm departure... all they have is the crappy snack basket. It's a 3 plus hour flight. I'm underwhelmed. The fa has already apologized to everyone.
Feb 2, 2015, 3:02 pm
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Update on Reinvented North America Premium Cabin Dining
I was on LGA-IAH yesterday. 1010 am departure. Lunch service and flight block was 4:25 so per the press release this should have been a 3-choice flight with sorbet. Instead it was two choices - a salad with grilled chicken or a Cuban sandwich. I took the sandwich. Pretty good. As mentioned above came with a cold couscous-like strew. (The salad came with southwestern tortilla soup.) The sandwich also came with a bag of Lay's kettle-cooked chips. Dessert was the cookie in a paper bag. I didn't take one so can't comment on whether it was bigger or better than the old cookies. Overall an improvement for sure - the sandwich was quite testy. Killed about a whole bottle of prosecco myself. (This despite that at the time of PDB beverage the FA had no idea what "prosecco" was and when I said it was a sparkling wine insisted "We only have that on transcons". She apologized later when she found it and said she didn't know about this. Pretty amazing. But service was otherwise very good. PMUA crew as this was an A320.)
Feb 2, 2015, 3:55 pm
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The midcon service cutoff (for 3 choices + ice cream/sorbet) is 1500mi, and LGA-IAH comes in at 1416mi, so based on the published guidelines the service was correct.
Feb 2, 2015, 4:33 pm
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I was on LGA-IAH yesterday. 1010 am departure. Lunch service and flight block was 4:25 so per the press release this should have been a 3-choice flight with sorbet. Instead it was two choices - a salad with grilled chicken or a Cuban sandwich. I took the sandwich. Pretty good. As mentioned above came with a cold couscous-like strew. (The salad came with southwestern tortilla soup.)