Airline Food and Drink
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From: Asia
Thanks for asking justapax it was BA LHR-JFK. I was able to get one of the discounted seats, in the run-up to the closing of the service. They had 1,000 seats that were Westbound and return via 777. The other 1,000 seats for the Eastbound, were only sold to Americans.
The day after my arrival, I was on a New Jersey beach with friends and we saw the fabulous machine on a clear afternoon. Which was the same as the previous day.
The day after my arrival, I was on a New Jersey beach with friends and we saw the fabulous machine on a clear afternoon. Which was the same as the previous day.
Rather a descent selection
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From: Everett, WA
Roughly 30 years ago, I was part of a team flying from Seattle to New Zealand to address issues regarding a recent 767 in-flight shutdown (due to the geography of NZ, nearly all their 767 flights where ETOPS - with a relatively small fleet, even a single shutdown could foul up their shutdown rate and endanger their ETOPS rating).
Anyway, the plan was to fly United, Seattle-LAX, then non-stop to New Zealand. Standard Boeing policy for long international flights was to travel business class. When we arrived at the Seattle airport, our United flight to LAX was delayed enough that we wouldn't make our connection, so they moved us to an Alaska flight where two of us ended up in First Class. We barely made the Alaska flight before the door closed - as we sat down in first, the FA came up - she was concerned that since we were a last-minute transfer, they didn't have meals for us, but we could have one of the brown-bag lunches from coach (this being back when they served food in domestic coach)(fortunately she confirmed they had no shortage of 'adult beverages'
).
After they served the First Class meal (some sort of pasta dish), she brought us our brown bag lunch with our drinks - it was a grilled chicken sandwich and a bag of potato chips (crisps). As we eating our rather tasty chicken sandwiches, the lady across the aisle - who was obviously less than pleased with her pasta - asked us how we got the sandwiches, had we ordered special meals? We explained that those were coach meals, and why we had them.
She promptly flagged down the flight attendant - who took away her pasta and gave her one of the coach meals...
Anyway, the plan was to fly United, Seattle-LAX, then non-stop to New Zealand. Standard Boeing policy for long international flights was to travel business class. When we arrived at the Seattle airport, our United flight to LAX was delayed enough that we wouldn't make our connection, so they moved us to an Alaska flight where two of us ended up in First Class. We barely made the Alaska flight before the door closed - as we sat down in first, the FA came up - she was concerned that since we were a last-minute transfer, they didn't have meals for us, but we could have one of the brown-bag lunches from coach (this being back when they served food in domestic coach)(fortunately she confirmed they had no shortage of 'adult beverages'
).After they served the First Class meal (some sort of pasta dish), she brought us our brown bag lunch with our drinks - it was a grilled chicken sandwich and a bag of potato chips (crisps). As we eating our rather tasty chicken sandwiches, the lady across the aisle - who was obviously less than pleased with her pasta - asked us how we got the sandwiches, had we ordered special meals? We explained that those were coach meals, and why we had them.
She promptly flagged down the flight attendant - who took away her pasta and gave her one of the coach meals...
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From: Oxon
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From: Budapest
Funny episode I witnesses on a Malev flight. Vegetarian sitting next to me was served the standard breakfast, a Hungarian omelette, complete with sausage chunks.
"Is this vegetarian"
"No, did you order the vegetarian option?"
"No"
"Sorry, this is all we have"
"OK"
Takes the tray, examines contents from all angles, nearly dropping the lot, sniffs it carefully - then scoffs the lot!
"Is this vegetarian"
"No, did you order the vegetarian option?"
"No"
"Sorry, this is all we have"
"OK"
Takes the tray, examines contents from all angles, nearly dropping the lot, sniffs it carefully - then scoffs the lot!
Paxing All Over The World
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From: Hertfordshire, UK.
In 1999, I was shuttling every few weeksd LHR-MUC-LHR. They served a light, cold, meal that was typical German. One one trip, the pax next to me refused the meal as it was (obviously) meat, cheese and salad and he was vegetarian.
The CC did NOT understand! (it was 1999!) and could not grasp why he would not eat just the salad and cheese and ignore the meat. After several times back and forth, I picked up his tray (lifted it over his head so that he did not have it nearer to him - and handed it firmly to the CC.
Poor guy was really not prepared for that. I cannot recall if we were ex-MUC or LHR. Either way, he was learning some lessons! I would have every confidence that this has changed.
The CC did NOT understand! (it was 1999!) and could not grasp why he would not eat just the salad and cheese and ignore the meat. After several times back and forth, I picked up his tray (lifted it over his head so that he did not have it nearer to him - and handed it firmly to the CC.
Poor guy was really not prepared for that. I cannot recall if we were ex-MUC or LHR. Either way, he was learning some lessons! I would have every confidence that this has changed.
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From: Beyond the Blue Horizon
I had a good meal down and back to Istanbul last week when I took some contracting work on for my old company which resulted in a day trip to Istanbul. It was my 8th flight with Turkish and I have not had a bad meal on any of them. I would say tyring to do it in the day was a challenge, as it was 23.30 from Man and a 22.25 return, and I am getting a bit old for that sort of day.
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From: Cincinnati, Ohio
One of the more famous airports in the U.S. is Lunken Field here in Zinzinnati. It features art deco pieces in the terminal, an Aeronca C-3 Master (those were built at the airport), the founding offices of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and the oldest standing control tower in the United States. Proctor & Gamble, headquartered in Cincinnati, homebases their corporate fleet of 3 Dassault Falcon 50s in glass-fronted hangars on premises. When Neil Armstrong was a professor at the University of Cincinnati 1971-1979, he'd bring students to Lunken to lecture on Aeronautics. The Sky Galley restaurant catered the first airborne meals to the fledgling American Airlines in the 1930s. They served excellent meals with a superb view until they closed in 2020. The terminal is now being converted into a 30 room luxury hotel.
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From: Cornwall
In 1999, I was shuttling every few weeksd LHR-MUC-LHR. They served a light, cold, meal that was typical German. One one trip, the pax next to me refused the meal as it was (obviously) meat, cheese and salad and he was vegetarian.
The CC did NOT understand! (it was 1999!) and could not grasp why he would not eat just the salad and cheese and ignore the meat. After several times back and forth, I picked up his tray (lifted it over his head so that he did not have it nearer to him - and handed it firmly to the CC.
Poor guy was really not prepared for that. I cannot recall if we were ex-MUC or LHR. Either way, he was learning some lessons! I would have every confidence that this has changed.
The CC did NOT understand! (it was 1999!) and could not grasp why he would not eat just the salad and cheese and ignore the meat. After several times back and forth, I picked up his tray (lifted it over his head so that he did not have it nearer to him - and handed it firmly to the CC.
Poor guy was really not prepared for that. I cannot recall if we were ex-MUC or LHR. Either way, he was learning some lessons! I would have every confidence that this has changed.