Please let us know if you actually get a real response!

Flew YYC-DEN tonight. Dinner was a cheese plate.

Well, I think this is pretty funny - https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/3...atering-union/

Per FT rules

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Staffers at United Airlines’ catering kitchens in Denver and four other U.S. cities have taken the first step toward unionizing, notifying the National Mediation Board earlier this month they intend to hold a union election.

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Nice paint job on the plane in the article. #SaveTheTulip

Well I booked my trip for May. Both legs LAX-DIA are meal flights. Hopefully the DIA issue is resolved by then.

48 hours since I sent the email to GS, so far no response.

Pack a lunch :D

Good catering for DEN-NRT on January 23
 

Disappointing that the catering issues at DEN are impacting flights further down the line. As an AC hub, YYC has sufficient catering facilities that UA could have the YYC-DEN portion catered in YYC rather than double-cater in DEN with cheese and crackers. YYC caters overseas flights for AC, BA, KLM, so I'm sure the caterers there could pull off something better than cheese and crackers for dinner. If UA actually cared about this issue, they could at least fix some of the issues at outstations like YYC by having the return flights catered there rather than double-catered in DEN.

I had a YYC-ORD flight where lunch was also cheese and crackers or hummus, because the aircraft had come from DEN, so the catering can be quite unpredictable for anyone not familiar with the issue - most people wouldn't expect a catering issue in DEN to impact a YYC-ORD flight.

on the way back (DEN-YYC), dinner was the cheeseburger. The cheese plate on the outbound was better

Interesting fact as I fly YYC-DEN very often. Even when the flight came from Chicago and was catered there YYC-DEN got the cheese box. Until December the afternoon E75 wasn’t a Denver turn around.
I think there was already more cost cutting than what they told us.
Of course now since 2/1 most flights out of DEN are snack or refreshment flights anyway and they really don’t have to try hard. The conspiracy theorist in me believes that’s the reason they delayed the kitchen fix in the first place.

Please do keep us posted. My DEN catering email to 1K was also ignored, I followed up twice (after ~5 business days each) and was still ignored. At this point, I've given up.

Now 6 days in and still ignored by GS.
Tomorrow I’ll follow up.

Agreed!

Flights of less than 3 hours are no longer catered with meals (with the exception of 2:20+long flights departing between 4pm to 8pm) -- this means no more meal service Ex-DEN for most of the West and Midwest and Western Canada.

DEN-YYC is typically slotted for between 2hrs40min and 2hrs50min -- no longer qualifies for a meal, even in 'United Business.'

It's funny, DP uses this picture whenever they need a stock photo for an article involving UA or sometimes just DIA in general. It's our nice weekly blast from the past in Denver.