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Photo taken by: Piero Savio
Route: San Juan International - Newark, 29 Mar 2004
Ticket price: 370 USD
Flight duration: 3 hours and 40 minutes
Aircraft type and class: A 300 Economy class
Business or leisure: leisure trip
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: rubber bread, green salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing, grilled chicken breast with tomato sauce, green peas and yellow rice, chocolate crunch bar
salt and pepper
Drink: diet coke
Comment: Almost an exercise in modernism, this meal combines the primary colors of a Mondrian composition with a sub-deli sensibility. How truly exquisite of AA to offer such an enlightment of the senses to the unsophisticated coach passenger. An example in restraint the bonsai salad is both ascetic and zen in its humble simplicity while the chicken is a clear reference to the vibrant aesthetic of high school cafeterias and pre-abstract expressionism. The meal is topped with a Pop Art nod thanks to Love and Quiches double chocolate crunch bar claim: " the little package with the BIG flavor"
Rating: 3 for the food and 9 for the contemporary art history appreciation hour

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Photo taken by: Piero Savio
Route: Newark - San Juan International, 20 Mar 2004
Ticket price: 370 USD
Flight duration: 3 hours and 35 minutes
Aircraft type and class: A 300 Economy class
Business or leisure: leisure trip
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: 2( two) slices of cantaloupe, small orange juice, fried egg and ham sandwich - salt and pepper
Drink: diet coke
Comment: Somehow it is possible to reach new lows...the cantaloupe was frozen and tasteless and the sandwitch was soggy and greasy. The single slice of "ham" ( not pictured) looked like ham but tasted like something else ( canned meat?). Unfortunate detail: the mystery meat had a "skin" around that needed to be peeled, a detail which possibly transformed the miserable breakfast into an exciting adventure in transgenic food modification. Thank you for the thrill AA!
Rating: 0

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Photo taken by: Speedy HB
Route: Frankfurt - Dallas, 18 Mar 2004
Flight duration: 10.23 H
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777 - coach / economy
Business or leisure: Business
Meal type: prior to landing a hot snack
Contents of the meal: Pizza with tomato, bacon and cheese
Some blue Grapes & Cookies
Drink: Ginger Ale, Hot Tea
Comments: Very nice hot Snack. Delicius and tasty
Rating: 9

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Photo taken by: Speedy HB
Route: Frankfurt - Dallas, 18 Mar 2004
Flight duration: 10.23 H
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777 - coach / economy
Business or leisure: Business
Meal type: Lunch and prior to landing a hot snack
Contents of the meal: Mixed Salad, very dry
Good Peper Cream Dressing,
Main course: Salmon with green beans, pasta (was very nice, better than it looks)
Roll & Butter, Cheesecake and botteled water
Drink: Water, Pepsi diet, Coffee
Rating: 7

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Photo taken by: Tundra767
Route: SJC-NRT, 13 Mar 2004
Flight duration: 11hour 45 min.
Aircraft type & class: 777-200 First
Business or leisure trip: Both
Meal type: Mid Flight Snack
Contents of the meal: Cold Soba noodles with sauce
Drink: Ginger Ale
Comments: A great lite snack. It was very fresh and something different to enjoy and get you in the mood for Tokyo
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
Camera brand & type: Cannon S400

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Photo taken by: P. Guillermety
Route: Flight 1572, Fort Lauderdale to LAX, 17 Mar 2004 (11am)
Ticket Price: $212.09 RT
Flight duration: 5.75 hours
Aircraft Type & Class: Boeing 757-200; Coach
Meal Type: Lunch
What was in the meal: Beef Burgundy, Potato Wedges, Mixed Vegetables, Green salad with olive oil and vinegar dressing, roll and pineapple upside down cake. Beverage of Choice.
Comments: The beef was so-so and flavorless. The vegetables were crisp and delicious. The salad was warm and limp. The best part was the dessert.
Rating 1-10): 6

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Photo taken by: P. Guillermety
Route: Flight 1092, LAX to Fort Lauderdale, 15 Mar 2004
Ticket Price: $212.09RT RT
Flight duration: 4.75 hours
Aircraft Type & Class: Boeing 757-200; Coach
Meal Type: Breakfast
What was in the meal: Mexican omelet (cheese, onions, green peppers, red peppers, and sauce), ham slice, honey dew melon, bagel with cream cheese.
Drink: Orange juice.
Comments: The omelet tasted far better than it looked. The bagel was fresh and the melon was not ripe.
Rating 1-10: 8

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Photo taken by: Omar Geadges
Route: Long Beach to Dallas, 28 Feb 2004
Ticket price: 68.00
Flight duration: 2.5 hrs
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757 Coach
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Mmmm Snack I guess.
Contents of the meal: Dry turkey sandwich, Hellmanns Dijonnaise, Bunny Luv carrots, Lays classic potato chips, and a brownie.
Drink: Canada Dry Ginger Ale.
Comments: Mmmm might good eats. Just kidding. Good thing I ate before I left. The woman across the isle asked for seconds. :~)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): I'm going to give it a 6. Gotta love those bunny luv carrots!

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Photo taken by: Omar Geadges
Route: Dallas to Long Beach, 25 Feb 2004
Ticket price: $68.00
Flight duration: 3 hrs
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757 Coach
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Mmmmm Snack
Contents of the meal: Bannana/Strawberry Yogurt, Quaker Oats Chewy bar, California Raisins
Drink: Aquapura (water)
Comments: Mmmm. Haven't been on a plane in about two years. Guess I haven't missed much!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): As snacks go ... I'll give it an 8 because it's healthy. Not filling, but healthy

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Photo taken by: Roy
Route: Las Vegas - Boston, 22 Feb 2004
Ticket price: £248 (London to Vegas, via Boston, return)
Flight duration: 4hrs 45mins
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Possibly snack, maybe dinner - Processed cheese triangle, two crackers, cookies
Drink: Water (with ice)
Comments: Flight was delayed by 4 hours at Vegas and finally took off at 2am. Air crew were surly, moody, unhelpful and this was all we were given for a 4 hour 45 minute flight. Missed my connection to London and had to wait in Boston for 10 hours. Found all AA ground staff to be totally unapologetic, condescending and generally very unhelpful.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: BWI MIKE
Route: SJU-BWI, 22 Feb 2004
Ticket price: ID
Flight duration: 4 hours
Aircraft type & class: 757-200,Y
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch - Iceburg lettuce salad w/ 1 tomatoe, sesame kaiser roll w/ light spread, Arroz con Pollo (Chicken w/rice), and cookies made in Columbia.
Drink: Ginger ale
Comments: This was actually pretty good. We were the last to be serve and the food was still warm.
Rating: 7

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Photo taken by: BWI MIKE
Route: Orlando MCO - San Juan SJU, 12 Feb 2004
Ticket Price: $100.00
Flight Duration: 2 1/2 hours
Aircraft type & class: 757-200,Y
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Beverage
Contents of Meal: Pretzels
Drink: Diet Sprite with lime
Comments: A flight attentant told me AA considers SJU flights to be int'l, so the service is upgraded. This is all we received!

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Photo taken by: EvenSteven
Route: JFK-EZE, 29 Jan 2004
Ticket price: USD620 return
Aircraft type & class: B767-300 Coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner and Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Dinner - Garden Salad, Chicken, Chocolate Cake
Breakfast - Hot Sandwich (ham and chese) Melon
Drink: Apple Juice, Bottled mineral water, prepacked OJ
Comments: Always appreciate AA's bottled water during the flight. Hot sandwitch for the second meal was quite tasty and melon was
very fresh.
Rating: 8 (no menu and no airshow!!)

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Photo taken by: Palace
Route: Mia - Puj, 26 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 1.46 hrs.
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757, Business class
Mela Type: Lunch
Coments of the meal: Good type of lunch for a short flight.
Salad (lettuce, radiccio, pineaple, mango w/ vinaigrette dressing), beef covered by black pepper and sweet & sour sauce on a side, mashes potatoes w/ skin and stir fried 3 color peppers and zucchini.
Red california cabernet souvignon wine.
Rating 1-10 : 9, excellent service by the crew...

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Photo taken by: Brittrvl
Route: CDG-JFK, 1 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $600 & miles to upgrade
Flight duration: 8hrs 25min
Aircraft type & class: 767-300 Business
Business or leisure trip: Leisure/Business
Meal type: Lunch (supposdily...we were that late leaving it was dinner)
Contents of the meal: see below
Drink: G&T, then some non descript white and tea that was digustingly weak. Again you had to beg for drinks and were looked down on for asking for a glass of water with another drink.
Comments: See below
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1
We left Paris in snow. We saw people being arrested off our flight and escorted away by the French police and someone refused to fly AFTER the plane had pushed back. We were 7 3/4 hrs late leaving CDG
The aircraft was dirty, the seat was broken and the crew was a misfit jumble. YEP it was American Airlines again!!!

[pic 181] * Amuse Bouche: Supposidly warm smoked salmon with white fish quenelles. Everything was cold and the quenelles tasted like raw flour dumplings

[pic 182] * Salad from salad cart with grilled vegetables. This was the best bit of the meal. Ranch or Balsamic vinegarette were the options.

[pic 183] * Main course 1. Chicken in a tropical sauce with buttered basmatti rice and spinach. Sauce had curry in it and chicken was tough and chewy. SPinach was gritty and badly done

[pic 184] * Main course 2. Filet mignon with green beans and potato gratin triangle. This had no taste at all and the sauce was revolting.

[pic 185] * Cheese & dessert. For a French catered flight the cheese was disgusting. You can see the size of the portion. Disgraceful! Again it was the horrible ice cream sundae but knowing the French palete, they threw this fruit cocktail on as well (not on the menu). It was quite nice, but the sauce let it down