2022 Let's Eat - Polaris Business
May 25, 2022, 7:12 am
#601
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Teaneck, NJ
Programs: AA L.T. Plat; UA Platinum
Posts: 328
Any recent reports on Kosher meals EWR-TLV and return TLV-EWR in business?
May 25, 2022, 12:37 pm
#602
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 2,350
How about vegetarian meals in J for SFO-CDG? AVML or VGML (apparently VLML is not available at the moment).
May 25, 2022, 1:47 pm
#603
Join Date: May 2001
Location: RNO, NV, USA.
Programs: UA 2MM
Posts: 5,070
Just completed UA33 NRT-LAX. Not much to report. PDB was offered. Dinner choice was beef, chicken or fish. No menu, no wine list. Champagne was Gosset, which I had not seen on UA flights before. No dessert, unless the brownie was considered the dessert. Flight full in J and P-E and only a few vacant middle seats in Y. A complete change from 6-12 months ago when flights were empty and upgrades cleared on booking. Flights are also much more expensive. But the money certainly isn’t going into F&B service. 😳
May 25, 2022, 2:38 pm
#604
Join Date: Feb 2022
Location: LAX
Programs: UA
Posts: 1,542
Any updates on offerings for June?
May 25, 2022, 4:16 pm
#605
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Los Angeles / Basel
Programs: UA 1K MM, AA EXP, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 26,943
May 26, 2022, 4:20 pm
#606
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Programs: UA*Lifetime GS, Hyatt* Lifetime Globalist
Posts: 12,356
Just completed UA33 NRT-LAX. Not much to report. PDB was offered. Dinner choice was beef, chicken or fish. No menu, no wine list. Champagne was Gosset, which I had not seen on UA flights before. No dessert, unless the brownie was considered the dessert. Flight full in J and P-E and only a few vacant middle seats in Y. A complete change from 6-12 months ago when flights were empty and upgrades cleared on booking. Flights are also much more expensive. But the money certainly isn’t going into F&B service. 😳
May 26, 2022, 5:44 pm
#607
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: United 1K/*G, HHonors Platinum
Posts: 142
restlessRNO, we must have been on the same flight.
Warm nuts and a decent Cab
Dinner. Beef was tender and nice, the rest not so good.
After landing, it took 15 minutes to go through 5-6 stations for verification of various documents and the QR code from the MySOS app's green page and a nasal swab covid test. Then a 50-min wait for the results which were announced as 4-digit numbers called (matching what they affix to your passport's back cover) in Japanese. So learning Japanese numbers from 0 to 9 may help. Then it took 5 min to go through immigration/customs. Mid-afternoon arrival probably helped.
About 90 minutes before arrival which was about midnight in LAX and 1PM in NRT, they served an egg-dish with sausages, poorly warmed up. A flight attendant came and apologized for that. During the flight, service was very good actually, pro-actively asking for refills. The problem is that the food selection is so poor there is not much attendants can do. Returning on NH out of HND so despite the late departure time I am actually looking forward to the food!
BTW, after a 2-hour nap, I woke up and a flight attendant was unhooking her iPhone/USB connection on my tray. She said "she borrowed my power". I was taken aback but I found it odd.
Warm nuts and a decent Cab
Dinner. Beef was tender and nice, the rest not so good.
After landing, it took 15 minutes to go through 5-6 stations for verification of various documents and the QR code from the MySOS app's green page and a nasal swab covid test. Then a 50-min wait for the results which were announced as 4-digit numbers called (matching what they affix to your passport's back cover) in Japanese. So learning Japanese numbers from 0 to 9 may help. Then it took 5 min to go through immigration/customs. Mid-afternoon arrival probably helped.
About 90 minutes before arrival which was about midnight in LAX and 1PM in NRT, they served an egg-dish with sausages, poorly warmed up. A flight attendant came and apologized for that. During the flight, service was very good actually, pro-actively asking for refills. The problem is that the food selection is so poor there is not much attendants can do. Returning on NH out of HND so despite the late departure time I am actually looking forward to the food!
BTW, after a 2-hour nap, I woke up and a flight attendant was unhooking her iPhone/USB connection on my tray. She said "she borrowed my power". I was taken aback but I found it odd.
Last edited by selo; May 26, 2022 at 7:17 pm Reason: I forgot to add.
May 27, 2022, 10:11 pm
#608
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: EWR, PHL
Programs: UA1k 3MM, AA Plt, peasant on everybody else, elite something or other at a bunch of hotels.
Posts: 4,637
May 28, 2022, 6:33 am
#609
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: NYC
Programs: UA 1k
Posts: 146
No PDB LHR-EWR today even will empty seats in Polaris. Standard offering: beef, chicken or pasta.
May 28, 2022, 7:14 am
#610
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: PHL
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum, Raddison Platinum, Avis Presidents Club
Posts: 5,276
WOW, never heard of that before. They have a plug in the galley.. There were no empty seats on the whole plane? That would have sucked if you were landing and found your phone have no power because the FA wanted to use your cable.
May 28, 2022, 1:23 pm
#611
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: ORD / JFK
Programs: HHonors - Diamond, Bonvoy Gold, AA PLT, UA, LH
Posts: 12
Berlin - EWR
UA 963
No PDB, no menu, no wine list, no hot towels, no beverage / nut service. Everything served all on one tray.
No real dessert or appetizer or limes for cocktails "because of Covid"
Roll cold, butter frozen, yet ice cream cup melted
"Beef, Chicken or Ravioli" for lunch option
Cheeseburger or Vegetables with CousCous for arrival service
UA 963
No PDB, no menu, no wine list, no hot towels, no beverage / nut service. Everything served all on one tray.
No real dessert or appetizer or limes for cocktails "because of Covid"
Roll cold, butter frozen, yet ice cream cup melted
"Beef, Chicken or Ravioli" for lunch option
Cheeseburger or Vegetables with CousCous for arrival service
May 28, 2022, 2:32 pm
#612
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2003
Programs: UA*Lifetime GS, Hyatt* Lifetime Globalist
Posts: 12,356
May 28, 2022, 3:12 pm
#613
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: SFO
Posts: 3,942
I don't understand why UA refuses to offer refills on the nuts. It's very petty!
So much so that I remember to always bring a small stash when I'm flying UA.
So much so that I remember to always bring a small stash when I'm flying UA.
May 28, 2022, 3:54 pm
#614
Join Date: May 2017
Programs: United currently plat
Posts: 203
June 1 can't come soon enough!
May 28, 2022, 5:09 pm
#615
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: YYC
Programs: UA 1K, Accor Platinum, Marriott Gold, Delta Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 362
IAH-GRU
This wasn't good at all. Really dry salmon with a weird tasteless sauce.
The only positive thing on this meal was the lack of that awful lemon sorbet.
Glad I ate at the Polaris Lounge.
The only positive thing on this meal was the lack of that awful lemon sorbet.
Glad I ate at the Polaris Lounge.