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Hey Folks,
I’m flying LHR-LAX in ~2weeks, we have a 0955 flight booked.What are the meal services on this flight? Would it be large meal, snack and then large meal?
Or only one large meal and a snack.
Not flown morning to west US for a while so not sure what time zone they’ll try to keep us in etc.
Also – if anyone knows the current menus that would be a bonus 😀
Thanks!
Can’t help with the first question but there’s a long thread on FlyerTalk with menus.
Can’t help with the first question but there’s a long thread on FlyerTalk with menus.
Ah, didn’t know that – Thank you!
I was on the late morning flight 4 weeks ago and it was lunch followed by a light meal.
I was on the late morning flight 4 weeks ago and it was lunch followed by a light meal.
Sounds like the 12-hour schlepp to GCM, where you get lunch followed by the insubstantial afternoon tea. The Club Kitchen gets denuded as soon as it’s stocked by regular travellers who know they are going to be very hungry by the time they disembark!
I was on the late morning flight 4 weeks ago and it was lunch followed by a light meal.
Sounds like the 12-hour schlepp to GCM, where you get lunch followed by the insubstantial afternoon tea. The Club Kitchen gets denuded as soon as it’s stocked by regular travellers who know they are going to be very hungry by the time they disembark!
I don’t think the raiding of the Club Kitchen you report is anything to do with fear of being hungry; BA’s Club food may be poor, but it’s perfectly ample. The raiders will undoubtedly have gorged themselves in the lounge, irrespective of the time of day, and taken anything they could from there and simply wish to add cheap shortbread/chocolate etc. to their haul of ‘free’ items.
@JDB, I have flown this route several times and the food supplied for a 12-hour flight is far from ample! On our trip last summer the CW offering was a chicken pie a couple of hours after take off, and the teeny weeny afternoon tea about 4 hours after that (they need to get it done before the NAS stop), and then nothing for the rest of the flight, which is another 6 hours. It’s such a poor experience in general that I actually prefer it when we go via the US. (Though it departs from T3 as of this summer which makes it slightly more desirable because of the better lounges).
Most travellers on this route (in J anyway) are residents and business travellers and not really fixated on getting as many freebies as they can! If you can afford to live and work in GCM as an ex-pat, you don’t need free shortbread, lol.
AA does much better than BA Their equivalent of ‘club kitchen’ has things like wraps and crudites.
Plus ability to select meals in advance with an extended menue over and above whats on board.
@NorthernLass I take your point about that particular route – it sounds like a poor catering experience when you’ve paid for J. I also know what @JDB means about the vultures but would add that when we were flying BA J recently to the Maldives and stayed at Six Senses Laamu I was very glad Mrs GT raided the lounge and club snacks to stock up on supplies – they were charging USD12 for a standard size packet of crisps or peanuts from the in-room minibar at the resort !!
Well, we’re going again in August, but now it’s a T3 departure we’ll be filling up on the Qantas breakfast buffet I think! Sadly too early for the table service eggs Benedict.
Lol, Club Kitchen has deteriorated a lot since the pandemic – though my son is rather partial to the Lindt truffles. He brought one to me last summer; I had just settled down for a nap and unfortunately it rolled under me while I was asleep and melted! The Club Suite door came in very handy to hide my furtive efforts to clean up the resulting mess with baby wipes!
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