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Photo taken by: Flyboy
Route: AY6 New York JFK to Helsinki HEL, 22 Oct 2003
Flight duration: 7h 15min
Aircraft type & class: MD-11, Business Class
Meal type: Dinner
Picture 057: Appetizer: Fresh garden salad and tapas plate (no choice)
Picture 058: Main course: Beef with mash and string beans in bacon
Picture 059: Cheese service
Picture 060: Dessert: Chocolate cake with black cherry sauce
Drink: Joseph Perrier Champagne
Comments: Seems that AY is cutting costs also on long haul Business class; not many choices to be made by the customer. Still, pretty good quality meals.
Rating: 8

056
Photo taken by: Nando Calrissian
Route: Flight#411 Helsinki to Rovaniemi via Kemi/Tornio, 29 Nov 2003
Ticket price: Free, frequent flyer miles award. Paid only taxes.
Flight duration: 2 hours (1 stop)
Aircraft type & class: MD-83 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: One roll with 5 slices of spicy Pepperoni/Chorizo style sausage
Drink: Cranberry drink, coffee or tea.
Comments: Better than nothing. Surpisingly spicy good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

055
Photo taken by: Flyboy
Route: Helsinki, HEL to London, LHR AY835, 7 Nov 2003
Flight duration: 2h 45min
Aircraft type & class: Airbus-320, Business Class
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Thai marinated shrimps, lamb with rösti potatoes, fruit salad in chocolate cup.
Drink: Champagne
Comments: Seems that AY is saving also in their C-class meals; nowadays they are using the small old YC tray in C-class. Otherwise ok.
Rating: 8

054
Photo taken by: Harri & Jarmo
Route: HEL-BKK, 6 Nov 2003
Ticket price: 440 EUR (HEL-BKK-HEL)
Flight duration: 9:50
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Potato-Carrot bake in cheese sauce with spinach, sausages, yoghurt
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: Very tasty (We had second helping)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

053
Photo taken by: Harri & Jarmo
Route: BKK-HEL, 11 Nov 2003
Ticket price: 440 EUR (HEL-BKK-HEL)
Flight duration: 10:55
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Omelette, sausages, spinach, somekind of rice pudding, fruit
Drink: Pineapple juice
Comments: Nothing special
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

052
Photo taken by: Harri & Jarmo
Route: HEL-BKK, 6 Nov 2003
Ticket price: 440 EUR (HEL-BKK-HEL)
Flight duration: 9:50
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Vegetable pasta, salad
Drink: Sparkling wine & Red wine
Comments: Pasta was tasteless, but the service was great :)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

051
Photo taken by: JETBOI
Flying from: BKK to HKG, 9 Sep 2003
Ticket price: Industry discounted fare
Flight duration: 2h50
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Meal type: Thai style
Drink: White wine
Comments: no choice for economy class but meal was abusolutely good
Rating 1-10 (worst-best):09

050
Photo taken by: Jorhe
Flying from: Helsinki, Finland to Kos, Greece, 8 August 2003
Flight duration: 4h
Aircraft type & class: 757, economy
Meal type: Dinner - Cheese pasta
Drink: water, cola
Comments: Quite good. With meat it would have been better.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Anna Moilanen
Flying from: Helsinki to London Heathrow, 24 June 2003 (3 hours: 19.30 to 20.40)
Ticket price: about 220 UK £ return
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Meal type: I think dinner - mexican bean-corn salsa + baked sliced potatoes (onions. tons of. im allergic to them. potatoes taste boring. not enough spices to be mexican food. and small size even for airline meal)
- gluten free bread, 2 types of margarin (very good bread to be glutenfree)
- fruit salad (looks old. watermelon is colorless, see picture. tastes old too, but i was hungry so i ate it)
- wine (spanish, red) (very good)
- water
- finnair's coffee is REALLY bad so i had tea. it was ok.
- blue plastic forkset looks still nice so it makes 1 point for look.
Comments: I had specificly ordered gluten free vegan meals. i am glad the order went thru
Rating: look: 5 (looks so cheap) / taste: 4

048
Photo taken by: Anna Moilanen
Flying from: London Heathrow - Helsinki, 13 June 2003 (7am - 11am)
Ticket price: about 220 UK £ return
Aircraft type & class: Economy
Meal type: Fried "Vegetable something" (those 3 in the picture). Potatoes and vegetables. Tastes very greasy, otherwise tasteless and very much onion.
spinach. half fried tomato (wet, tasteless)
- roll + marmelade and butter
- orange slices and melon (3 slices each). not very fresh taste. oranges taste like melons.
- orange juice
- coffee. finnair's coffee is the worst coffee i've ever had in an airplane. oh god, i remember agian why i should ask tea in finnair's flights!!
is this a breakfast, brunch or lunch?
Comments: Ordered vegan, it appeared didn't go thru. this looked like plain vegetarian. ticket ordered online, but the meal preference had not gone thru.
Rating:
look: 7 / plastic blue fork set looks nice = +1 point
taste: 3. my stomach hurts during flight and after - not very tasteful

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Photo taken by: Dickson Lai
Flying from: Hong Kong to Helsinki, 8 August 2003
Flight duration: 13 hours
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Meal type: Breakfast - Egg,mushrooms,tomato & potatos, Bread,pineapple,papaya & other fruit, Dessert:cake
Drink: Water,Apple juice,Soft drinks,Tea,Coffee,Orange juice
Comments: quite good,just average,the dessert is quite bad
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

046
Photo taken by: Kimmo
Flying from: Helsinki to Munich, 21 July 2003
Ticket price: 300€
Flight duration: 2,5h
Aircraft type & class: McDonnel, economy
Meal type: breakfast - (Cold) potato pancake, scrambled egg, ham, tomatoe, cheese, yoghurt
Drink: coffee, cranberry juice, (soda, water, orange, apple juice also avail.)
Comments: Empty stomach needs something more warm that just the coffee, rolls offered separately were cold, they used to be oven-warm. Strawberry-Blueberry yoghurt and cranberry juice were great
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Kimmo
Flying from: Munich to Helsinki, 17 July 2003
Ticket price: 300 €
Flight duration: 2,5h
Aircraft type & class: McDonnel, economy
Meal type: lunch - salami and potatoe slices with green salad. Muffin as desert
Drink: beer and water (many other altenatives were also avail.)
Comments: Pretty modest cold meal, potatoes slices were floury. Paprika and the beer were the best. The roll was cold. They used to be oven-warm!!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

044
Photo taken by: tatup
Flying from: Helsinki to Moscow, 16 July 2003
Flight duration:1h 25 min
Aircraft type & class: Airbus, economy
Meal type: breakfast - white bread with cheese
Drink: orange juice and coffee
Comments: poor
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

043
Photo taken by: Dickson Lai
Flying from: Hong Kong to Helsinki, 07 August 2003
Flight duration: 13 hours
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Meal type: Dinner - Sweet and sour chicken with rice,onion vegetable and carrot, vegetable salad,cream cheese cake,bread
Drink: Water,Apple juice,Soft drinks,Tea,Coffee
Comments: The salad is very poor,tasteless,the rice is dry,just the cake was ok
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Dickson Lai
Flying from: Hong Kong to Helsinki, 07 August 2003
Flight duration: 13 hours
Aircraft type & class: MD11 Economy
Meal type: Dinner - Cheese pasta with vegetables,salad with tomato,pink-coloured cake with cream,bread,butter
Drink: Water,Apple Juice,Soft drinks
Comments: The pasta is quite dry and the salad is tasteless,just the dessert tasty
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: FlyBoy
Flying from: Helsinki HEL to Kittilä KTT, 18 April 2003
Aircraft type & class: A-320, Economy Class
Meal type: Snack, Roll filled with salami, chocolate for dessert.
Drink: Cranberry juice and Pepsi Maxx
Comments: Ok for domestic flight (1h10min)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6