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Will an 0810 ORD departure to DEN have food service coach? first?

0815 flt. shows snack/brunch

I wonder if you'll get anything in coach...doubt it, although I'm not positive.

Can't remember the names of the past threads on the "reduced breakfast" but last month SFO-DEN was cold continental in F (cereal, banana, yogurt, plus a choice of butter, cheese and warm pastries) and beverages and a cookie in coach.

The offerings must be patchy .
Last week I flew West Coast - MCO in F on a breakfast flight in an 320 and was blessed with yoghurt ,juice and a banana!
It is just beyond my imagination how an airline can claim this is a reasonable breakfast for a transcontinental flight.
Ozflier

Ozflier, I read that the airlines offer what they need to and the MCO route is apparently a leisure route with little competition in the meals department.

Last week, DEN-IAD bkfst in F was the cold cereal, some kind of egg thing on a muffin, a few pastries, coffee, juice, milk, banana, yoghurt. I could barely eat anything because it is not on my diet, but I guess it could be worse.

There was nothing in coach, although that could mean some token cookie or something, I suppose.

There's a blurb in this month's Hemispheres Magazine about the new breakfast service and it explains pretty well the thresholds time and route wise as to what you can expect.

Don't have a copy with me. Sorry.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PremEx:
There's a blurb in this month's Hemispheres Magazine about the new breakfast service and it explains pretty well the thresholds time and route wise as to what you can expect.

Don't have a copy with me. Sorry.</font>

I read that too and, also without a copy, seem to recall that it was all service beginning July 8.

That said, however... this morning's 9:10am SAN-ORD served a hot breakfast in coach--yogurt, banana, granola crunch mix, and breakfast pizza-- something that I haven't seen since the post-9/11 cuts. That struck me as the beginning of resumed "full" breakfast service. Don't know what was served in F, though, and if it was indeed a hot breakfast eggs dish described in Hemispheres or my beloved fruit plate, finally returning to the skies...

Richard, I accept that MCO is primarily a leisure destination (I was going to a serious convention and admittedly, a day at the "World") but UA did not seem to be offering any discount on my F class fare to cover reduced "leisure route" meal service.
? Any mention in the new Hemispheres of a new domestic wine service involving US wines.
Ozflier

we could presumably find it at www.hemispheresmagazine.com?

The Hemispheres Magazine website usually only offers some of the major articles. Not all the small stuff.

Here's the blurb from the magazine:

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Start The Morning Right

With longer lead times for departures, many morning travelers don't have time to eat before they catch their flights. So the most important meal of the day is making a comback on United's North American domestic routes.

UnitedEconomy / Flights of more than an hour will offer breakfast snack mix, and flights of 90 or more minutes will offer Danish. On July 8, flights of two hours or more will offer a hot breakfast sandwich and fruit.

UnitedFirst and UnitedBusiness / Flights of more than one hour will offer Starbucks biscotti, and flights of 90 minutes or more will offer bagels or cinnamon rolls and fresh fruit. First and Business Class flights of two hours or more will offer hot breakfast snadwiches with warm breakfast breads, cereal, and fruit. And flights of more than 3 1/2 hours will feature United's popular egg dishes or a fresh fruit plate.</font>

I miss those transcon "samplers" with different kinds of meats and eggs great for us low carb/paleo types. It is all going to more starches I suppose as that is what people like and it is much less expensive I would imagine.