2021 Let's Eat - United First, United Business, & Premium Transcon Service
Dec 13, 2021, 10:28 pm
#1621
Join Date: Apr 2016
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, AA Gold, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Discoverist
Posts: 695
Didn't want to make a fuss although I probably could have gotten some token ETC or miles thrown my way. They asked for orders and served each person front to back so I was the last person to order and the last person to be served.
Dec 14, 2021, 7:07 am
#1622
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Red Bull Arena
Programs: Mosaic, AsiaMiles, Mabuhay, Alaska
Posts: 54
I flew on UAL2614 yesterday. PDB in plastic cups were offered. I had the bubbly. Primary meal choices were a chicken breast with polenta and a ravioli. My sis had the chicken while I picked the ravioli. They were both meh, especially in comparison to the Thai noodle that was served on the inbound leg of our trip (pictured below.) The original Chicago cheesecake (the one with the red wrapper) tasted better to me than the chocolate chip one with the green wrapper (pictured below.) Pre-arrival snacks for both trips were either a cheese and sliced meats plate or a fruit and hummus plate. The hummus was great.
One strange bit of behavior on both flights: there was always someone sitting on one of our seats upon boarding. They'd sit and screw around, then when you tell them they're sitting in your seat, they'd take the bottled water and go back to their assigned seat in a huff. It's not like I'm sitting on any of the "preferred" seats either, as my sis and I were on the couples seats. wth is that?
One strange bit of behavior on both flights: there was always someone sitting on one of our seats upon boarding. They'd sit and screw around, then when you tell them they're sitting in your seat, they'd take the bottled water and go back to their assigned seat in a huff. It's not like I'm sitting on any of the "preferred" seats either, as my sis and I were on the couples seats. wth is that?
Dec 14, 2021, 9:27 am
#1623
Join Date: Apr 2010
Programs: AA PP, UA 1K/MM, WoH Globalist, HH Gold
Posts: 1,196
One strange bit of behavior on both flights: there was always someone sitting on one of our seats upon boarding. They'd sit and screw around, then when you tell them they're sitting in your seat, they'd take the bottled water and go back to their assigned seat in a huff. It's not like I'm sitting on any of the "preferred" seats either, as my sis and I were on the couples seats. wth is that?
Dec 14, 2021, 6:27 pm
#1624
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: SEA/NYC/IAD
Programs: UA 1K, Marriott Titanium, Hyatt Explorist
Posts: 1,921
It was ... edible. I'll just leave it at that.
Dec 14, 2021, 7:40 pm
#1625
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: BNE/OOL temporarily-permanently at CAK/PIT
Programs: UA*1K & UA Club, National Ex. Elite, Hertz Pres. Circ., Amex Plat., CLEAR
Posts: 1,703
After a tapas snack box for breakfast in YYC-DEN, I was hoping the lunch coded flight on DEN-IAH would have something that wasn’t in a box or plastic package. Unfortunately not. Seems like a miss from catering, but the “lunch” was a packaged cheese tray, and the oddest part was a box of raisins as a side where the salad would normally be. It felt like someone switched out a lunch kit from a kindergarten school cafeteria.
“Lunch” on DEN-IAH
“Lunch” on DEN-IAH
Dec 15, 2021, 1:23 am
#1626
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: HNL
Programs: UA GS4MM, MR LT Plat, Hilton Gold
Posts: 6,447
Orzo pasta or Chicken Katsu on tonight’s HNL-LAX flight. As it’s 10:45pm declined.
Dec 15, 2021, 6:42 am
#1627
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Houston
Programs: UA GS 2.6MM & Lifetime UC, Qantas Platinum, Hilton Lifetime Diamond, Bonvoy Platinum, HawaiianMiles
Posts: 8,694
Dec 15, 2021, 7:01 am
#1628
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Denver, CO
Programs: UA 1K 25 years/2MM, Honors LT Diamond, AVIS & Hertz Prez Club
Posts: 4,753
Fun Fact, unless it has changed, UA catering supports F9's onboard product. This was true a few years ago during a tour of the Chelsea Catering facility in Denver where there were dedicated cages with product for F9 shown to us.
Dec 15, 2021, 12:18 pm
#1629
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: IAH/EWR-LGA/MIA
Programs: UA Global Services 3.2 MM, Marriott Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium Elite, AA Exec Plat
Posts: 2,505
IAH-MIA-IAH 12-14 Dec
Both evening snack flights. PDB offered on IAH-MIA but not on the return. Return was happily mis-catered for breakfast (despite 645 pm departure) so took the egg croissant over a repeat of the tomato mozzarella on the outbound. Excellent FA on MIA-IAH, worked the cabin the whole two hours and had a great sense of humor.
Dec 15, 2021, 1:13 pm
#1630
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: USA
Programs: UA Gold, Marriott Gold
Posts: 1,194
I've seen more than one person here saying they liked it -- including myself (and I've eaten my share of both pork and chicken katsu). The only complaint I had was that the first time it appeared they reheated it with the foil tightly wrapped to the platter so everything got soggy. My other experiences were not soggy. In fact, your report is the only one I've seen that was negative so I don't know what you're basing "consensus" on.
Dec 15, 2021, 2:48 pm
#1631
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Honolulu Harbor
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 15,019
Defnitely different looking than pre-pandemic.
Dec 15, 2021, 5:30 pm
#1632
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: USA
Programs: UA Platinum, 1MM
Posts: 13,460
I've seen more than one person here saying they liked it -- including myself (and I've eaten my share of both pork and chicken katsu). The only complaint I had was that the first time it appeared they reheated it with the foil tightly wrapped to the platter so everything got soggy. My other experiences were not soggy. In fact, your report is the only one I've seen that was negative so I don't know what you're basing "consensus" on.
Dec 15, 2021, 8:25 pm
#1633
Join Date: Jun 2021
Location: Houston, TX
Programs: UA silver, Bonvoy silver
Posts: 2,828
I've seen more than one person here saying they liked it -- including myself (and I've eaten my share of both pork and chicken katsu). The only complaint I had was that the first time it appeared they reheated it with the foil tightly wrapped to the platter so everything got soggy. My other experiences were not soggy. In fact, your report is the only one I've seen that was negative so I don't know what you're basing "consensus" on.
Dec 16, 2021, 2:00 am
#1635
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K, AA EXP, Hyatt Glob, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Plat, Total Wine & More Reserve
Posts: 4,502
I've had it on HNL-SFO and also thought it was pretty good. I had some reservations when ordering since the last time I recall having it was as a pre-arrival meal into NRT and it came out very soggy then.