airline meals?
I notice on my United Airlines flight booking, it says on all of the flights: "meal: food to purchase". Does this mean that UAL has gone the way of Ryan Airlines in selling food instead of the usual meal service? I have to say, that rather sucks. I would have requested a different airline had I known...
Google reveals "most major airlines cut complimentary food in coach to reduce costs in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001." Really? There was meal service on American and British Airways over the summer...
(I actually like airline food. I think it's because I'm usually starving by the time it's served, and because the portions are small enough that I don't get tired of it. That, and food on European airlines isn't nearly as scary as that on American carriers... once on United there were green spiders in my salad!)
edit: BTW, anyone have a list of airlines with reciprocal frequent-flyer-mileage programs with United?
edit2: Anyone know anything about the airline ATA? I haven't heard of them before.
Google reveals "most major airlines cut complimentary food in coach to reduce costs in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001." Really? There was meal service on American and British Airways over the summer...
(I actually like airline food. I think it's because I'm usually starving by the time it's served, and because the portions are small enough that I don't get tired of it. That, and food on European airlines isn't nearly as scary as that on American carriers... once on United there were green spiders in my salad!)
edit: BTW, anyone have a list of airlines with reciprocal frequent-flyer-mileage programs with United?
edit2: Anyone know anything about the airline ATA? I haven't heard of them before.
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i think they're afraid the food will blow up on you?
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Chicken wrap: $7, salad: $7, Pringles chips: $2. It's cheaper to buy food at the airport and eat on the plane. Food for purchase is available on flights longer than 3 hours. On shorter flights they only serve beverages and peanuts. They serve "real" food on transatlantic and transpacific flights. On SAS the other day, we were given a cold breakfast instead of the normal hot breakfast, and you now have to pay for the headphones!
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I'm glad they've at least started warning customers that there will be no meals served. When I bought tickets to fly to Toronto, I was asked to select a meal preference by the Air Canada site, so, you know, it might be easy to infer that we would be served food. But the flight from SFO to Chicago was run by United, and there was no notice that there would be no food until they announced *on the plane* that they had "gourmet" meals for sale for $10 dollars or so. At least Air Canada fed me on the direct flight back home.
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Are you flying United and planning to deposit the miles into another airline's FF program, or are you planning to fly with another airline and deposit the miles into your United FF account?
Look at: http://www.united.com/page/article/0,1360,1173,00.html
You can fly both Star Alliance airlines and partner airlines and earn miles to your United account, or you can fly United and credit the miles to the FF programs of Star Alliance or (most) partner airlines.
edit2: Anyone know anything about the airline ATA? I haven't heard of them before.
Cheap but pretty reliable. Not very good, not very bad...
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