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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Route: Stornoway, Outer Hebrides SYY - Edinburgh EDI, 22 Nov 2003
Ticket price: £123+tax
Flight duration: 0:50
Aircraft type & class: Embraer 145, Business
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Chicken Salad, Apple and Sultana pie
Drink: Delcaves Champagne, NV.
Comments: British Midland had a proper meal service in this Embraer jet - none of the cheap picnic rubbish they offload on their larger aircraft. Tasted OK, but portions were small.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Route: London Heathrow LHR to Glasgow GLA, 22 Nov 2003
Ticket price: £130+tax
Flight duration: 1:20
Aircraft type & class: A321, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
English Breakfast (sausage, plain omelette/scrambled egg, hash brown, baked beans, mushrooms, bacon, kethup), roll & butter, fresh fruit selection (apple, orange, pineapple slices).
Drink: Tea, Mango and Passion fruit yoghurt drink.
Comments: I always welcome an English Breakfast, although the beans were rather dry. Sausage was especially yummy with herbs in it. Couldn't tell if the egg was meant to be scrambled or an omelette. Still, a welcome return to the English Breakfast on British Midland. I was getting very frustrated with their panini excuses. Fruit selection really was fresh. Yoghurt drink was OK, but not my cup of tea really. There was a selection of tea - Earl Grey and 'normal'. I had normal. Never realised you ever had a choice. I was the only passenger in BC that morning. I successfully managed to open the milk carton on this occasion without spillage, but the FA brought around a jug of milk anyway - she confided that she agreed that the milk cartons are pathetic, and that's why she brings a jug! Still it was to no avail as we hit some turbulance and most of my tea ended up on the tray table anyway.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7 - would be higher but I still don't appreciate
the picnic box idea at all.

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Photo taken by: Kevin English
Route: MAN to LHR, 2 Nov 2003
Ticket price: GBP. 60 rtn inc taxes
Flight duration: approx 60 mins
Aircraft type & class: A320-200, Y Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Ham sandwich
Drink: OJ (alcohol was available but I didn't have any)
Comments: Soon after take off, the purser apologised over the PA that they wouldn't be serving tea or coffee because of turbulence. The actual flying time was about 30 mins and it was amazing that they conducted a full snack and bar service.
I think that the low cost airlines like easyJet probably can't compete with the full service UK airlines (BA or BMI). BMI had about 5 cabin crew on this flight!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.

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Photo taken by: Kevin English
Route: LHR-MAN, 1 Nov 2003
Ticket price: GBP. 60 rtn inc taxes
Flight duration: approx 60 mins
Aircraft type & class: A321, Y Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: refreshment
Contents of the meal: Honey and Oatmeal Biscuits
Drink: Black coffee + Whisky (5ml bottle of Johnnie Walker Red label)
Comments: Actual flying time was only 30 mins and staff managed to conduct a full beverage service. bmi UK domestic services have one major difference with USA domestic flights in that all alcoholic beverages are free! (I think that BA also offer a free bar on their UK domestic flights). Well done to bmi.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.

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Photo taken by: Kevin English
Route: LHR - GLA, 31 Oct 2003
Ticket price: GBP. 98 rtn inc taxes
Flight duration: approx 90 mins
Aircraft type & class: A321, Y Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Scrambled Egg & Bacon Panini
Drink: OJ
Comments: 06:55 am early departure to Glasgow from LHR. Hot toasted sandwich. I woke up at 4:15 this day so I welcomed the hot sandwich which cabin staff served about 5 mins after take off. This was the first flight of the day to GLA and it was unbelievable that it was only about 10% full. Check in staff gave me an emergency exit seat in row 9. Loads of legroom made the flight very comfortable. When the lady who sat next to me went to the toilet, I took a picture of her tray table which shows how much legroom there was in row 9 of the A321. Note the nice bright red bmi carpet which makes the cabin look luxurious.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.

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Photo taken by: Sam Vasu
Route: LMadrid Barajas - London Heathrow, 31 Oct 2003
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: A321 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: Egg Mayonaise Sandwich
Drink: Grapefruit Juice
Comments: This sandwich was very tasty and was a good size.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Sam Vasu
Route: LMadrid Barajas - London Heathrow, 31 Oct 2003
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: A321 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: "Nibbles"
Drink: Grapefruit Juice
Comments: I was quite happy to see these as well as the sandwich on such a short flight.

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Photo taken by: Sam Vasu
Route: London Heathrow - Madrid Barajas, 28 Oct 2003
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft type & class: A321 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Brunch
Contents of the meal: Bacon Panini
Drink: Apple Tango
Comments: Nothing too great, but at least it was something.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: uncivilized
Flying from: IAD to MAN, 29 June 2003
Flight duration: 5hours
Aircraft type & class: A330 the business
Meal type: appetizer, dinner, dessert
appetizer: california rolls with hand-wrapped spring rolls with sweet and sour sauce, fresh bread basket.
dinner: risotto stuffed tomatoes, fresh asparagus, grilled seafood skewer garnished with a balsamico sauce.
dessert: cappuccino mousse with freshly frothed milk.
Drink: chardonnay
Comments: BD has simply one of the best longhaul products to North America. An onboard chef offered to tailor the meal to how hungry I was and the flight attendant recommended a dessert which was one of the best i have had onboard.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: R. Fisch
Flying from: LHR to AMS, 25 August 2003
Ticket price: £100
Flight duration: 45 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 767 Economy
Meal type: Snack - Small Chocolate Bar and package of Pretzels
Drink: Beverage Service
Comments: Better than nothing for a short flight
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Flying from: Glasgow (GLA) to London Heathrow (LHR), 30 August 2003
Ticket price: £330 return
Flight duration: 1h 20m
Aircraft type & class: A320, Business.
Meal type: Brunch - Chicken salad roll, dried apricots, flapjack.
Drink: Tea
Comments: The usual depressing, repetitive and cheaply presented BMI Business Class meal. 95% full. Why am I still flying them? It's certainly not for the food. The only reason is that for the same price as a full fare BA domestic flight you get wider seats on BMI.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Flying from: London Heathrow (LHR) to Glasgow (GLA), 29 August 2003
Ticket price: £330 return
Flight duration: 1h 20m
Aircraft type & class: A321, Business.
Meal type: Brunch - Cheese and Ham roll, apple slices, small chocolate bar.
Drink: Tea
Comments: Food tasted good, service was OK, cabin clean, picnic idea lets final score down badly. 40% full.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Howard Long

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Photo taken by: Howard Long
Flying from: London Heathrow (LHR) to Glasgow (GLA), 20 August 2003
Ticket price: £330 return
Flight duration: 1h 20m
Aircraft type & class: A320, Business.
Meal type: Brunch - Chicken salad roll, dried apricots, small Time Out chocolate bar.
Drink: Tea
Comments: Food OK, service OK, cabin clean, picnic idea cheap and bad. 35% full.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: xtra1
Flying from: London LHR to Amsterdam AMS, 1 August 2003
Flight duration: 45minutes
Aircraft type & class: A320, Business
Meal type: Lunch - Pre-packed sandwich-bar type foods. Ham and egg roll, banana cake, banana
Drink: Water, coffee
Comments: A truely dreadful meal. An 'economy' type meal served to business class passengers. Certainly the cheapest and most awful meals I have ever had in a business class cabin.
Rating: 1