IAD-FRA on 2/2 YES! ^

The flight attendant looked at me as I buttoned up my napkin and said "How Cool!"

I didn't even notice the buttonholes. Great thing. I will look for them neyt flight.

I've found that the linens with buttonholes in F/C have been hit or miss. Today on LAX-IAD 744 UD no buttonholes :(

Had them this past week on ORD - LGA. Strangely enough, I noticed a buttonhole on the tray cloth as well. Didn't use the opportunity to 'double button'.

Update to this topic. Over the last 4 international flights, 3 of which were in C, I received non-buttonholed linens in the utensil rollup but did receive buttonholed linen in the service, unfortunately they were used as the tray cover :rolleyes:

This year so far, twice to Europe with buttonhole napkins and back from Europe buttonhole tray covers. In domestic, I just don't remember as my flights are too early in the morning or too late at night.

On my last flight back from LA, I had a button-holed tray cover and an "intact" napkin. I switched the two, as they are the same size... someone still hasn't gotten the proper training...

Its not a training deficiency... the new "button-hole" linens are gradually replacing the older ones (without button-holes) as they age. There is not a differentiation between which one is supposed to boarded for the table linen and which one is used when catering prepares the roll-up for your tray.

Until the older ones are completely purged from inventory, there will always be a chance to get a linen without a button-hole in your roll-up.

I had this on a DEN-SFO flight awhile back. Buttonhole table cloth (tray cloth?) and non-hole napkin. Didn't want to swap because balancing the tray to do the swap was too much of a pain.