Meals
Hi Nick,
As you know I did LHR - AUH yesterday on BA. First time I've done BA longhaul for ages. And there too, the food was much, much improved from before. Good choices, but no menu cards were handed out, so it was difficult to pre-order drinks to accompany your meal if you didn't know what was on offer to eat.
The crew got all huffy when passengers kept asking them what was being served later for dinner before selecting the appropriate wine. (For some reason they do another drinks round just prior to the food trolley, "drinks to accompany your meal sir....").
And by the way, the aeroplane was a 777 but one of the very first ones in the fleet. Needs a little bit of cleaning up.
and............yesterday's flight on BA confirmed something that I had noticed on several of the big carriers......the meal portions being served are now tiny!! Cost cutting at its best here. The nicely oval and circular porcelain dishes are much shallower than they used to be.
Still better than KLM's long haul casserole though, which comes in a dish the size of 20 Marlboro Lights.
Hope u r well mate.