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Old 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.

Originally Posted by UA Insider
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:
              -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
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                  Starting Oct 25 '15 UA PS/HNL long-haul redeyes/mid-cons will feature BETTER options!

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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 11:25 am
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                  yay ... finally got upgraded from digestible to edible
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 11:45 am
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                  wow, these meals sound really good. i'm actually kind of bummed that i'm booked 100% aa this year. oh well, since my cpu wouldn't clear anyway, i'd never get to experience this food.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 1:33 pm
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                  I think this is great news. I'm spending more of my travel dollars on buying First Class this year and this will entice me to spend some of it on United. The 800 mile threshold is a great choice, as is fixing the UAX gap. Plus, I have a BWI-LAX flight in F coming up in May that I'm now even more excited for.

                  I just hope there will finally be bread plates.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 4:28 pm
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                  As one who mourned the loss of Continental, where I could have vegetarian meals, I noticed that none of the entrees that I saw listed, are vegetarian.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 4:33 pm
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                  Originally Posted by Jeannietx
                  As one who mourned the loss of Continental, where I could have vegetarian meals, I noticed that none of the entrees that I saw listed, are vegetarian.

                  Nice revisionist history there. CO yanked special meals well before the merger, in 2003 in fact (7 years before the merger): http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...ter-9-1-a.html


                  United had special meals going into the merger and they were removed after the merger.

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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 5:58 pm
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                  ooh this should be better. flying LAX-JFK on saturday in BF and will report. i flew JFK-SFO a few days ago and noticed it was the same steak and chicken dish that i've gotten on this route for... well... at least a year that i can remember. it's nice it's finally getting changed after all this time.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 6:44 pm
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                  Originally Posted by bob_the_d
                  ooh this should be better. flying LAX-JFK on saturday in BF and will report. i flew JFK-SFO a few days ago and noticed it was the same steak and chicken dish that i've gotten on this route for... well... at least a year that i can remember. it's nice it's finally getting changed after all this time.
                  You're missing the new menus. The changes take place starting 2/1, so your flight this Saturday isn't affected by this news. Sorry.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 6:59 pm
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                  Originally Posted by UA Insider
                  [*]200 to 799 miles: Light breakfast refreshments (such as scones, muffins, or pound cake) on morning flights or a selection of premium snacks and fresh fruit on flights departing after 10:00am.
                  • Note that flights from Chicago O’Hare to/from Hartford, New York LaGuardia, Newark, and from Newark to/from Atlanta will receive full meals when scheduled during traditional meal times.
                  Overall a change a I like but I wish ORD-DCA/IAD was on this list.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 7:48 pm
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                  Originally Posted by bob_the_d
                  ooh this should be better. flying LAX-JFK on saturday in BF and will report. i flew JFK-SFO a few days ago and noticed it was the same steak and chicken dish that i've gotten on this route for... well... at least a year that i can remember. it's nice it's finally getting changed after all this time.
                  Likely going to be a rocky start anyways. Anytime something changes there a greater than not chance that catering or FAs mess things up until they get the hang of it.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 8:23 pm
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                  Originally Posted by olouie
                  Likely going to be a rocky start anyways. Anytime something changes there a greater than not chance that catering or FAs mess things up until they get the hang of it.
                  Kind of how meal ordering preference for GS/1K hasn't been standardized in four years?
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 8:29 pm
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                  Originally Posted by bob_the_d
                  ooh this should be better. flying LAX-JFK on saturday in BF and will report. i flew JFK-SFO a few days ago and noticed it was the same steak and chicken dish that i've gotten on this route for... well... at least a year that i can remember. it's nice it's finally getting changed after all this time.
                  probably no change for your next flight, you might have missed
                  Originally Posted by UA Insider
                  ..... we have a number of details to share about the catering changes you will begin to see in our North America premium cabins beginning Feb 1....
                  The PS flights meals have been stuck in a time wrap for more than a year.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 8:47 pm
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                  Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
                  The PS flights meals have been stuck in a time wrap for more than a year.
                  Do we think ps is getting a change? It looks the same to me - 3 entree choices, sundae, pre-arrival scone or cookie.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 8:55 pm
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                  Originally Posted by Kacee
                  Do we think ps is getting a change? It looks the same to me - 3 entree choices, sundae, pre-arrival scone or cookie.
                  Perhaps at least a refreshed menu? If I have to choose between a "Short Rib of Beef", "Tamale-filled Breast of Chicken", or "Tri-color Ravioli" one more time I may lose it. I'm not holding out much hope given that they call out that horrid Tamale-filled Breast of Chicken in the press release.

                  (Also, I'm not sure why they bucked their trend of using unnecessary "of"'s and didn't call it "Ravioli of Tri-color".)
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 9:01 pm
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                  Originally Posted by Sykes
                  Perhaps at least a refreshed menu? If I have to choose between a "Short Rib of Beef", "Tamale-filled Breast of Chicken", or "Tri-color Ravioli" one more time I may lose it. I'm not holding out much hope given that they call out that horrid Tamale-filled Breast of Chicken in the press release.

                  (Also, I'm not sure why they bucked their trend of using unnecessary "of"'s and didn't call it "Ravioli of Tri-color".)

                  Now you can have the same on non-PS transcons:

                  New multi-course meal service on transcontinental and Hawaii flights, featuring heartier entrees, such as tamale-stuffed chicken wrapped in a corn husk and served with creamy corn sauce, roasted red and yellow tomatoes and yucca sticks

                  FWIW, the tamale stuffed chicken has been around for years: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/15398433-post21.html

                  Personally I don't mind it, I think it's pretty good.

                  Though I've seen people get offended because they don't pick up that it's a chicken stuffed with tamale, they think it's a chicken tamale and totally inappropriate for BF.
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                  Old Jan 22, 2015, 9:04 pm
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                  Originally Posted by channa
                  Personally I don't mind it, I think it's pretty good.
                  I would have gladly taken it on Monday. Everything looked so awful I just ate the salad.
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