glx

You said EWR-LAX. Regardless, you get dinner on that flight, also. I believe the only ones you don't are the super late leaving ones - after 10pm

glx

I'd posit that they have every single capable 752 flying the route now and that it's simply a number of seats available issue and not them trying to squeeze everyone into fewer planes - hence them using some of the available 772's where possible.

My guess is as they get more 739's this year and can swap them in on the remaining domestic turns that the int'l config 752's serve that we'll see more ps flights a day.

blchamnynj

Hello. I have a question about United's BusinessFirst class service about the meal. In June, I am flying from Newark to San Francisco and am wondering about the food for early morning flights.

I have a 6:00 AM EST flight from Newark to SFO to 9:30 PST on a Boeing 757-200 and was wondering for anyone who has flown this route at this time, how is the breakfast?

All I find about the food on United's BusinessFirst is information about lunch and dinner, but very little about the breakfast.

Could someone please help me? There are currently 20 BusinessFirst seats available and do not want to miss one if the food is worth the extra price, which is about $400.

Thanks for your cooperation.

mike2200

What are you hoping to get for your $400.00?

moondog

The food is NOT worth $400.

But, those seats are much more comfortable than economy seats.

blchamnynj

Mike2200,
I am hoping for a comfortable seat, decent meal which is better than what you get for Economy class and power for my laptop.

Also, does this cover the United Lounge at EWR?

Is there anything else that makes it worth it?

LondonElite

There are plenty of places in EWR that will sell you an acceptable breakfast for far less than $400. If this is a major consideration for choosing BF, you probably shouldn't. Your laptop should last for five hours fully charged, so the only benefit (worth it in my opinion) is the much better seat for that length of time. Food on UA is diabolically bad, so don't even spend a minute thinking about that.

goodeats21

Hi blchamnynj. Welcome to FlyerTalk.

The service between EWR and SFO is called p.s. service. It is a very nice way to travel across the country in BusinessFirst.

The plane you will be on uses the same lie-flat seat as Intl flights. Plenty of space and actually converts into a bed if you wish to get some sleep. Pillow and blanket provided.

There is a section of FlyerTalk for discussing United questions, and even a thread for specific discusions of the food service on domestic (including p.s. flights). It can be found here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...nessfirst.html

For your flight, breakfast will be served shortly after takeoff. You will be first served a fruit plate and then a choice of three different entrees. Drinks and breakfast bread also served, of course.

For a fare difference of only $400, I would certainly opt for BusinessFirst over Economy (or Economy Plus). The price differential is usually much higher.

Added: I see LondonElite and I were replying at the same time. United has recently revamped their domestic meals, and some of them are actually quite good. I am not sure they were ever "diabolically bad" but they were not always up to par before. Much better now.

LondonElite

I asked a FA once what kind of meat the round hockey disk was. She told me it was a sausage patty. I said 'yes, I see that's what you call it, but what animal did this meat come from, a cow, a pig, a chicken, a squirrel?' She had no clue. It was gross and didn't even taste like meat, so I've avoided those ever since.

HoyaSFOIAD

I'm guessing this is most likely the case. While not trying to speak in absolutes too much, I'm highly unlikely to use EWR at all anymore based on them killing Uber. The cabs out of EWR might be the biggest joke/scam? I've ever seen. It was especially incredible last year when all the credit card voucher machines at terminal C were broken for a stretch of MONTHS. What was the solution? "Oh the cab will drive you around to terminal A to pick up a voucher."

That and OTG.

RandomBaritone

While you were certainly wise to avoid the infamous sausage patties that graced every transcon F breakfast for a number of years, your venom is out of date: UA has dramatically increased the quality of its domestic meals in recent months. The difference is night and day. Here's a breakfast from a few months back, just after the change:





The only thing that's still wretched is the coffee, but that's changing to Illy soon.

ErikStratton

In addition to the fresh fruit cup and bread (usually muffins, biscuits and croissants), IME, the 3 breakfast choices have been:
- eggs (they call it an omlete) with the aforementioned sausage patty plus a triangle of something that I believe is a mixture of potatoes and broccoli.
- French toast with a slice of ham (or sometimes sausage).
- cold cereal (usually Cheerios) with a banana.

And everything tastes better with a Bloody Mary or two!
(And the new coffee is not bad).

RandomBaritone

Just so we're clear, as my photo demonstrates, the "aforementioned sausage patty" has been replaced with an infinitely superior substitute.

Again, just for the record, flights are not yet using Illy coffee. Only the UCs have it now. UA in-flight coffee will change some time this summer.

https://hub.united.com/en-us/news/pr...at-united.aspx

LondonElite

That does look much better. Not $400 better, mind you, but I take back my comments.

JVPhoto

This is outdated as others have mentioned. So unless you've flown in the past few months there are those here better equipped to offering worthwhile advice.