UA_Flyer

Stop by the SQ Silverkris lounge and load up on decent food and drink before the flight, then you won’t be needing to endure the horror of Polaris meals.

Yes, bring food! Those 50-cent vending machine chips and candies won’t worth the trips to the galley.

Kmxu

Love this comment.
But Kirby’s spread sheet says they cost UA 50.1 cents. 🤣

Artpen100

I'd like it if an airline got Pret to be their caterer. Domestic as well.

gutt22

This thread is endlessly entertaining for me. Much appreciated. Doing my first Polaris flight in three years next week, IAH-MUC and back again, and looking forward to reporting back. Mostly looking forward to eating in the lounge to avoid what really looks like disappointment on a plate. Hoping for good service and swift wine refills. Cheers.

bocastephen

or you could just fly SQ and not worry about any of this stuff

MatthewLAX

Just an update on my special meal question -

UA1122
EWR-CPT
July 2022

I ordered the AVML (Asian vegetarian) and was slighlty disappointed by the main meal (just an economy class Indian meal in a casserole dish) with no naan (brown roll instead of pretzel roll)--I did appreciate the plain yogurt. Green salad was better than the nasty cabbage salad others received--



Dessert was packaged gluten-free chocolate chip cookies - no Gulab Jamun.




The big "upgrade" to the special meal was the mid-flight snack, which was a lovely salad with chickpeas--





(compared to nasty sandwiches or chips for other passengers)

Pre-arrival meal was no different - just the oatmeal. I asked if I could have eggs instead and was obliged.





Overall, it was good Indian comfort food. Very cheap main course, but better than then the options on the menu (chicken, beef, chili).

Dyce

That 'dish' with one egg, carbonized bacon, and rock potatoes should be fed to Kirby everyday... just embarrassing

Always Flyin

I had an award ticket in business on Eva MNL-xTPE-oSFO,

Taipei banned transits and the only award seat available was on UA.

If there is any good to it, it was an 85,000 mile ticket on Eva. 180,000 on the UA flight. They protected me without charging me the difference.

When I'm paying, I wouldn't even think of flying UA out of Asia.

lomtovely

Polaris Lounge was great as always. the restaurant was busy about an hour wait for a table for 1.

My favorite thing, the potato pancake! 10/10

Rainbow trout 6/10

cookie skillet was very sugary, but that's not bad 8/10

my drink decided to show up after all my meals came.

Menus provided. Albeit mine was taken to give to another customer. it seemed no one else had to give theirs up, as the floor was littered with them upon arrival.

PDB champaign

Warm Nuts. First drink was build your own. The rest of the beverages where mixed by the FA.

Braised Beef Short rib. I did not mind it. Seemed flavorful enough. No mushrooms to be seen. But the turnips and potatoes tasted of cardboard. used my entire salt and pepper shaker. Salad was ok.

Rock solid and flavorless. i couldn't believe it. it was like the taste of water.

The yoghurt and cereal where nice. The crepe things not good.

Acid

That looks quite sad. UA serves Rajbhog food in Y for Indian meals out of EWR which are usually decent with Indian dessert. They have several stores in NJ.

sfvoyage

When was this? I thought it's possible to transit via TPE now?? (I hope so, because I have BKK-TPE-SFO in Dec.)

Always Flyin

It was announced effective through something like September 30 and Eva cancelled my flights.

This was about two months ago.

angetenar

Transiting through TPE is possible; see the more recent discussion in No Transit Passengers, No Entry for Non-ARC Foreigners 19 MAY -24 June 2021

iflyabunch

Anyone with a recent experience for the Asian Vegetarian meal ex-IAH?

st530

A friend whom I was able to upgrade using PPs just sent me these. Wow. Just wow.





By comparison here’s NH in Y from his first segment (KUL-NRT).