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Photo taken by: JAIME FELIPE MOREIRA CORDERO
Route: PMI - MAD, 30 Jun 2006
Ticket price: 156EUR
Flight duration: 1h 15m
Class: business
Aircraft: MD-88
Meal: breakfast - It had got omelette, with potatoes and a sausage rolls with bacon. croisant, coffe, orange juice bread, butter...
Drink: coffe, water, orange juice, and tomato juice.
Comments: Taste was very good, and food was hot. But I have to say that this business breakfast, long time ago, before were retired tourist catering, It was served as tourist menu.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: dominic dauchez
Route: las palmas - madrid, 19 Mar 2006
Ticket price: frequent flyer free ticket
Flight duration: 2h 40m
Class: economy
Aircraft: aairbus A340/300
Meal: paid snacks "tu menu" - supposedly serano ham with crusty foccacia bread
in fact fiberish greasy pork muscle in a dessicated peace of bread
Drink: tepid cava
Comments: at this price, you would expect some kind of quality snacks and a decently refreshed cava... it was not the case...
the steward was unfriendly, the credit card machine not working well and no change was available for a 50 euros banknote... a real sad experience..
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 2.5

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Photo taken by: Ralf
Route: vienna - barcelona, 17 Jan 2006
Ticket price: okay
Flight duration: 2h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: airbus 320
Meal: dinner - just a light dinner
Drink: fresh (a few hours old) orange juice, sparkling mineral, the red is for a mini quite ok, fine brandy also in the iberia lounges too fine I can tell you
Comments: I shared two flights (vienna-barcelona, barcelona madrid) with this nice crew. service excellent on iberia european business.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: Chris Davies
Route: GIG - MAD, 1 Mar 2006
Ticket price: OneWorld RTW 1st class ticket
Flight duration: 9h 00m
Class: business
Aircraft: A340-600
Meal: Dinner and breakfast - The starter: toast and virgin olive oil, cauliflower with mascarpone cheese soup, marinated shrimps with passion fruit, mesclun leaves fresh salad, and mango, virgin olive oil and sherry vinegar.
Main: filet mignon steak with fine herbs crust and vegetable grille. Alternatives offered included “namorado” fish with bacon and thyme, puree of banana and small caramelized onions; or baked vegetable lasagne.
Dessert: assortment of cheeses with guava jam, chocolate and raspberry cake. Alternatives offered included papaya with cassis and raisin ice cream.

Breakfast: cheese omelette with bacon and spinach sauté, fresh orange juice with seasonal fresh fruit and yoghurt, toasts, pastry, Colombian coffee.
Drink: Cava: Castillo Perelada Brut reserva; Vina esmeralda 2004 (white); Lan reserva 1998 (red)
Comments: IBERIA 1st March, 2006. GIG/MAD BusinessPlus. Travelling on a OneWorld RTW ticket, I boarded the flight in Rio De Janeiro and was very pleasantly surprised at the space and cleanliness of the cabin. This was an A340 600 model plane and quite new. The seat was very comfortable with an almost fully flat recline. I am 6’2” and although I was unable to lay fully stretched out, managed to sleep for a few hours on what was a 9 hour flight. The IFE system on this aircraft must be the most advanced I have ever seen. It is very easy to use and completely “on-demand”. This was a late afternoon flight and a comprehensive cabin service was offered which included pre takeoff Cava, in flight cocktails, and choices of three main courses and two desserts.

The Flight Attendants were very friendly and professional. A couple of hours prior to landing in Madrid, a full breakfast was served. Overall, the service on this flight approximated what is often delivered as 1st class on other airlines, and as such represents excellent value. My only gripe is that the cabin was a bit overheated for my liking.
On arrival in Madrid, I was further surprised with the new Terminal 4 which must be the largest and most automated air terminal in the world. The speed of baggage delivery needs to be improved though. One hour is far too long to wait.

Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10

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Photo taken by: Adelinemmc
Route: Madrid - Lima, 13 Jun 2005
Ticket price: £580 (from London)
Flight duration: 13h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft: 737
Meal: Llunch - Cold cuts: ham and chicken
Coleslaw
One cherry tomato
Cream cheese and bread
Flan
Drink: Beer and tea
Comments: Served several hours after delayed take off. I was starving by then.
Food OK but way too little! Iberia served only that meal during a 13 hours flight!
If you asked, a tiny ham sandwich was given to you by sour hostesses
Lowest mark for letting passengers starve
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: Dominic Dauchez
Route: Las Palmas - Madrid IB 813, 2 Sep 2005
Ticket price: 350 euros
Flight duration: 2h35
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A340-300
Business or leisure trip: leisure trip
Meal type: meal
Contents of the meal: terrine of foie gras, Lettuce (very crispy) and
tomato salad, Sama fish and king prawn paupiettes with roasted duck
beast, grilles green asparagus (slightly overcooked) and courgette, 3
different cheeses, tangerine mousse coffee; bread was toasted and fresh
Drink: various wines (Ribeira and Rioja) cavas (spanish champagne) or
liquors available as well as any soft
Comments: very well installed in the first class seats, that was a
nice enjoyable flight
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
Camera brand & type: Casio Exilim EX S500

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Photo taken by: James Easton
Route: LHR - London Heathrow - BIO - Bilbao, 22 Aug 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 1h 30m
Class: economy
Aircraft: A320
Meal: snack - Salami "Sandwich of the day", Snickers
Drink: Water
Comments: Wasn't really worth €6 but was perfectly edible.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

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PHOTO TAKEN BY: Francisco Camino
ROUTE Moscow Domededovo-Madrid
DATE: 25th-March-2005
TICKET PRICE 217 €
FLIGHT DURATION 5:10
AIRCRAFT TYPE AND CLASS A319 in Tourist class
BUSINESS OR LEISURE Leisure
MEAL TYPE dinner. Chicken breast, salad, fried peppers & onions, potatoes croquettes, apple pie
DRINK beer
COMMENTS Tasty but not as nice as the one in the inbound flight. The hot meal was a bit too boring and potatoes croquettes, a bit tasteless. But since that Iberia has dropped meal on most of European destinations, I was quite satisfied with this hot meal. Nice good Spanish olive oil for the salad, and the apple pie was quite good.
RATING 6
CAMARA BRAND & TYPE Olympus 765UZ


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PHOTO TAKEN BY: Francisco Camino
ROUTE Madrid-Moscow-Domodedovo
DATE: 19th-March-2005
TICKET PRICE 217€
FLIGHT DURATION 4h,50m
AIRCRAFT TYPE AND CLASS A319 in Tourist class
BUSINESS OR LEISURE leisure
MEAL TYPE lunch. Salad, Beef, rice and turnip greens, coffee and cream cake
DRINK beer
COMMENTS Not that bad taking into account that Iberia has eliminated all meals in most European flights. Only Moscow, Istambul and Middle East ones, you get a free meal. The rest….lousy low cost service. “you get what you pay”. Surprising the brand new Iberia A319 have ovens, which makes possible to have hot meals. Classical meal, but tasty
RATING 7,5
CAMARA BRAND & TYPE Olympus 765UZ


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Photo taken by: Emilio López Palacio
Route: JFK-MAD, 13 July 2004
Ticket price: 441 Euro
Flight duration: 7h 15min.
Aircraft type & class: B747-300, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Meat with pasta, Side salad, 2 bread rolls,
tiramissù cake, cheese and crackers.
Drink: coke, water and coffe.
Comments: The meat was excellent and both the pasta and the meat were hot, I didn't eat the side salad, but the tiramissù cake was delicious. The bread rolls were fresh and tasty and finally the crackers with the cheese portion were two nice complements for this sweet meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9+
Camera brand & type: Sony Cyber-Shot 5xmegapixels


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Photo taken by: Mikael Forsblom
Route: Santo Domingo - Madrid, 3 Dec 2004
Ticket price: 800 € total price
Flight duration: 7,5 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747-300, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: dinner + breakfast
Contents of the meal: for dinner veal ragout with mashed potatoes, canned tunafish on a lettuce leaf, roll, processed cheese, piece of cake
for breakfast: a roll filled with a slice of ham and cheese, fruit sallad, a muffin, orange juice
Drink:red wine, coffee
Comments: The meat was rather though, and the rolls served at dinner were the worst sort I have ever experienced. Not even McDonald's have managed to serve bread like this around their hambuger beefs.
In contrast the breakfast was quite good and saved the day.
Rating 7
Camera brand and type: Sony DCR-PC 350E


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Photo taken by: Mikael Forsblom
Route: Madrid - San Juan, 26 Nov 2004
Ticket price: 800 € total price (second leg of Helsinki - Santo Domingo
flight v.v.)
Flight duration: 8 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 747-200, economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: dinner + snack
Contents of the meal: for dinner chicken ragout (again)with steamed haricots verts, rice, roll, sallad of lettuce and carrots, processed cheese, piece of cake
for snack: a slice of ham and liver sausage,brie cheese, a roll, a piece of chocolate cake
Drink:red and white wine
Comments: The cake at dinner was extremely sweet, and the wines could not compete with those served onboard Finnair
Rating 6
Camera brand and type: Sony DCR-PC 350E


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Photo taken by: Emilio López Palacio
Route: JFK-MAD, 13 Jul 2004
Ticket price: 441 Euro
Flight duration: 7h 15min.
Aircraft type & class: B747-300, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Meat with pasta, Side salad, 2 brad rolls, tiramissù cake, cheese and crackers.
Drink: coke, water and coffe.
Comments: The meat was excellent and both the pasta and the meat were hot, I didn't eat the side salad, but the tiramissù cake was delicious. The bread rolls were fresh and tasty and finally the crackers with the cheese portion were two nice complements for this sweet meal.Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Sony Cyber-Shot 5xmegapixels

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Photo taken by: dominic dauchez
Route: alc/mad/lpa, 14 Aug 2004
Ticket price: 380 euros
Duration: 3h40
Aircraft: airbus A320-200 business class, leisure trip
Meal: business snack
plastic bag containing 2 sandwiches + water bottle
Drink: flat water
Comments: never had such b usiness meal even in the afternoon, supposedly due to food, meal, catering services strike.... without mentioning 6 hours delay all in
Rating: 0
Camera: minolta dimage X

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Photo taken by: Dario Crusafon
Route: TFN-BCN , date 30/05/2004
Ticket price: 100€ <
Flight duration: 3H15
Aircraft type & class: AIRBUS 320-214 Business Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure trip
Meal: Lunch
*Tropical salad with coriander dressing, cherry tomatores and black olives.
*Shrimp and Grouper Brochette / Chicken breast with green pepper
*Selection of cheeses
*Crusty Almond Cake with chocolate sauce
Drink: BEER
Comments: I was very impressed: very tasty and enough quantity
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
Camera brand & type: CANON 300D

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Photo taken by: Louise Low
Route: Barcelona to London LHR, flight IB4180 8:55pm, 29 Feb 2004
Ticket price: £84.40 (BA to Barcelona from Gatwick and Iberia back to London Heathrow)
Flight duration: 2.15 hours
Aircraft type & class: Economy, seat 9D
Business or leisure trip: Leisure Trip
Meal: Dinner
Yogurt 125g by Danone, airline stewardress gave you whatever flavour they had (lemon, blueberry, or strawberry) I asked if I could have strawberry, a sandwich -- white bread with 1-2 slices of moist ham with mayo and little pices of small chopped lettuce, along with big slice of mozerella cheese,
Drink: choice of drinks, I had orange juice, tea and coffee was also available
Comments: Bread was very cry, especially the crust, very bland and tasteless
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 2 (at least I got my choice of yogurt flavour and Iberia feed me on the flight)
Camera brand & type: Yashica Zoomate (which doesn't along me to take photos so close, hence that's why my airline meals photos are often taken in a slanted position)

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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero
Route: Rome to Madrid, 7 Apr 2004
Flight Duration: 2hr20 minutes
Class: Economy class on Boeing B757-200
Meal: Snack - A cured ham sandwich, an apple muffin.
Drink: Heineken beer.
Comments: The new Iberia short haul economy service is provided on a payment basis, and the "Tu Menù/Your menu" concept has been developed together with GateGourmet. For this snack (dubbed "Menù Iberico") I spent 9,00EUR. I was a bit disappointed to discover that the "tapas" mentioned in the menu card were in fact a sandwich. Nevertheless I changed my mind upon savouring it as the quality of this simple snack was very high, with the ciabatta-like bread being crusty and fresh and the ham very tasty. The apple muffin was perfect, too.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): for the food (and its price) +7,5

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Photo taken by: 135°Stereofeld
Route: Madrid - Lima, 10 Nov 2003
Ticket price: paid by german embassy of peru
Flight duration: ap. 11 h
Business or leisure trip: business
Meal: lunch
chicken, rice, veg.
Drink: Coke
Comments: chicken, rice and veg. was good, but th dessert was to sweet
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.0
Camera brand & type: HP Photosmart 850

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Photo taken by: Francisco Camino
Route: Granada-Madrid, 23 Feb 2004
Ticket price: €117
Flight duration: 35 minutes
Aircraft type and class: MD88 economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: drink service & peanuts
Drink: diet Coke
Comments: No more free drinks at Iberia in domestic/European routes. So the Coke tasted quite well
Rating 1/10: 6

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Photo taken by: Francisco Camino
Route: Santiago-Madrid, 21 Feb 2004
Ticket price: €117
Flight duration: 45 minutes
Aircraft type and class: A320 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Drink service - tea and biscuits
Drink: tea
Comments: Iberia traditional coffee/tea service for more than twenty years. The usual cheap pastic things, lousy tea and old fashioned biscuits... But it was appreciated since it was the last for free. From March Iberia operates as a low cost as far as service is concerned.
Drink and pay.
Rating 1/10: 3

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Photo taken by: Andy Greenshields
Route: TFN-MAD, 16 Feb 2004
Ticket price: 100EUR
Flight duration: 2H 20M
Aircraft type & class: A343 - Economy
Business or leisure trip: Lesiure
Meal: Sandwich
2 sandwiches & Yougurt
Drink: Choice offered
Comments: Appalling sandwich. Hard cold bread, margarine in small area on one side a cheese thick enough to wedge a door open.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best):1

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: Miami-Brussels, 31 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2:00
Aircraft type & class: airbus a320
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: lunch
2 sandwiches (ham and cheese) + yaghourt.
Drink: coffee.
Comments: good overall
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: Miami-Madrid, 30 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 7:30
Aircraft type & class: airbus a340
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: dinner + breakfast
dinner = tuna salad + beef stew + desert. Breakfast = croissant + fruit salad + some bakery.
Drink: orange juice + coffee.
Comments: new a340 of iberia, just great !
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: San Jose-Miami, 30 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2:30
Aircraft type & class: airbus a319
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: dinner
pasta bolognese + crab salad + fruit salad.
Drink: water.
Comments: good overall, all flights on time in miami transit (good surprise).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: Miami-San Jose, 15 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2:30
Aircraft type & class: airbus a319
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: dinner
2 sandwiches (crab and tuna) + fruit salad.
Drink: coca-cola.
Comments: good overall, all flights on time in miami transit (good surprise).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: Madrid-Miami, 15 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 9:30
Aircraft type & class: boeing 747
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: dinner
crackers + cold turkey + desert.
Drink: champagne.
Comments: very old airplane ; very tiny overheads + very bad screen quality ; hopefully, Iberia is replacing these airplanes.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Dominique Sapin
Route: Brussels-Madrid, 15 Jan 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 2:00
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: breakfast
2 sandwiches (ham and cheese) + yoghurt
Drink: coffee.
Comments: old airplane; felt insecure in there...
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Bruce
Route: BCN-MAD-JFK, 1 Dec 2003
Ticket price: $425 (JFK-LHR-BCN-JFK)
Flight duration: 7h45m
Aircraft type & class: 747-200, coach
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Lunch, snack
050 - Lunch was chicken in tomato sauce, overcooked beans and potatoes. There was a pate and a too-sweet dessert.
051 - Snack was some very good cold cuts (turkey, ham, cheese) and another bad dessert.
Drink: They did have Cava, bad as it was.
Comments: The plane was filthy and falling apart. I have never seen a plane pack so many people so tightly into economy (and I've been on many an EL AL flight!).
Service was surly and rude. The check-in was total chaos and baggage claim was worse.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Hisham
Flying from: Barcelona to London LHR, 6 Nov 2003
Flight duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Aircraft type & Class: Airbus A320-200, Economy Class
Meal: Snack - Ham and cheese sandwiches, lemon yoghurt
Drink: Coffee
Comments: Uninspiringly standard fare on European flights
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Harri & Jarmo
Route: EZE-MAD, 21 Oct 2003
Ticket price: 800 EUR
Flight duration: 11:35
Aircraft type & class: 747-300 Economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal: dinner
Chicken and rice, tuna salad, apple cake
Drink: Spanish red wine, coke and Codorniu cava (was frozen!!)
Comments: OK, nothing special
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Linus Fontaine
Route: Madrid - Frankfurt, 2 Oct 2003
Ticket price: 953 Euro (Frankfurt-Guayaquil return ticket)
Flight duration: 2h30
Aircraft type & class: economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Dinner
Sandwiches, Yoghurt
Drink: Codorniu Cava
Comments: Sandiches and Yoghurt allright, Codorniu Cava excellent, I would have preferred a proper dinner
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Linus Fontaine
Route: Guayaquil - Madrid, 1 Oct 2003
Ticket price: 953 Euro (Frankfurt-Guayaquil return ticket)
Flight duration: 10h
Aircraft type & class: airbus A340, economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Dinner (2), Breakfast
My Dinner: Beef, mash potatoes, vegetables, salad, fruit dessert; My friend's dinner: Pasta, salad, cake; Breakfast: Cheese and Ham Croissant, sweet pastry, fruits
Drink: Red Wine for dinner, orange juice for breakfast
Comments: Beef was really good, i liked the dip; red wine was excellent and I slept really well after that; Salad was very tasty
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Beef dinner 7, Pasta 6, Breakfast 7

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Photo taken by: Linus Fontaine
Route: Madrid - Guayaquil, 18 Aug 2003
Ticket price: 953 Euro (Frankfurt-Guayaquil return ticket)
Flight duration: 13h20 (stop in Quito)
Aircraft type & class: airbus A340, economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Lunch (2), Dinner
My lunch: Chicken, potatoes, tomato, salad, kiwi; My friend's lunch: Pasta, salad, strawberry dessert; Dinner: Ham, cheese, chocolate dessert
Drink: Coca Cola, Orange juice, Cava
Comments: Chicken and pasta were ok, desserts too sweet and artificial, the Codorniu Cava for Dinner was really good
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Chicken lunch 6, Pasta 6, Dinner 7

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Photo taken by: Linus Fontaine
Route: Frankfurt - Madrid, 18 Aug 2003
Ticket price: 953 Euro (Frankfurt-Guayaquil return ticket)
Flight duration: 2h30
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A320, economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal: Breakfast
Cheese-Ham-Salad-Sandwich, Yoghurt
Drink: Orange juice, tea
Comments: nice breakfast after a night at airport, sandwich bread sticks to mouth (as usual), nice tea
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Mike Cunningham
Route: BCN-MAD-JFK, 19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: US$522 RT
Flight duration: Long. 10 hours w/ layover?
Aircraft type & class: Ancient, decrepit B747 - Coach
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal: Dinner
Mystery "meat"; cole slaw; dinner role; Crack
brand crackers; cake.
Drink: Fanta limon.
Comments: The Fanta was good. The cole slaw was, well, cole slaw.
The cake was the same cake from lunch, but with a different roofing
material on it. The Crack brand crackers were apparently made from
compressed sawdust. And the mystery meat...I'm at a loss. It may
have been Qorn; I don't know. Starvation notwithstanding, I couldn't
eat it.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: Mike Cunningham
Route: BCN-MAD-JFK, 19 Oct 2003
Ticket price: US$522 RT
Flight duration: Long. 10 hours w/ layover?
Aircraft type & class: Ancient, decrepit B747 - Coach
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal: Lunch
Chicken paella; a strange salad (shredded cabbage & apple in mayonaise sauce? with mystery bologna slice?); the ubiquitous hard and frosty dinner roll; cake. Oh, and a wedge of processed cheese.
Drink: Coke
Comments: The paella had a strange sort of plastic-y taste to it, but starvation was an issue, so I ate it. And most of Amalia's meal, because Iberia forgot to put her vegetarian meal on the plane. Bad Iberia. The weird salad wasn't too bad, but I have no idea what that slice of bologna was. It wasn't so good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

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Photo taken by: Mike Cunningham
Route: JFK-MAD-BCN, 10 Oct 2003
Ticket price: US$522 RT
Flight duration: Long. 10 hours w/ layover?
Aircraft type & class: A340 Coach
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal: Breakfast
Sticky "blueberry" muffin; tough "croissant"; 4 chunks of cantaloupe; 2 red grapes; hermetically sealed "orange juice."
Drink: Cold, stale, burned, "coffee." Yech.
Comments: Yuck. I ate it to ward off death from starvation, but otherwise would have skipped this meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1.

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Photo taken by: Mike Cunningham
Route: JFK-MAD-BCN, 10 Oct 2003
Ticket price: US$522 RT
Flight duration: Long. 10 hours w/ layover?
Aircraft type & class: A340 Coach
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal: Dinner.
White bean & shrimp salad; meat w/ mashed red potatoes and peas/carrots; dinner roll; struedel.
Drink: Lousy red wine.
Comments: I was presented the option of either "meat" or "chicken" (hmm...) and went with the meat. What can I say ... it was food. it didn't kill me. The mashed red potatoes had bits of skin mixed in, which I liked, and the bean and shrimp salad was actually pretty darned good. I can confirm that the dinner roll was hard and cold.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Mike Cunningham
Route: JFK-MAD-BCN, 10 Oct 2003
Ticket price: US$522 RT
Flight duration: Long. 10 hours w/ layover?
Aircraft type & class: A340 Coach
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal: Dinner (Vegetariam)
Noodles w/ tofu; lettuce & tomato salad; dinner
roll; processed cheese wedge; apple struedel.
Comments: Amalia, who unfortunately had to eat this meal, reported
that the hard, chilled dinner roll was the kiss of death for this
already lackluster meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Dannibal
Flying from: ORD to MAD, 9 June 2003
Ticket price: €364
Flight duration: 7hours 25 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A340-300 Economy
Meal: Dinner- The choices were "chicken or beef". That reminded
me of the "good old days" but I wish it would have been more up to
date as most other airlines are on the Transatlantic routes.
One can't really see that I chose beef. With it were some peas and
carrots. Also brown sauce and mashed potatos with onions (at least that
was my interpretation). The side was a shrimp cocktail, a bun and
apfelstrudel for dessert.
Drink: Diet Coke
Comments: The main course was pretty bland. Not a lot else to say
about it. Not horrible but most certainly not good either. The shrimp
cocktail was okay. The onions in there were a flavorful surprise. The
bun, typical for Y-class. The dessert was fine overall. Luckily it was FAR
better than the hideous paella I had on the way to the US.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): To be fair I'd say a 4 overall. With the shrimp
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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Madrid (MAD) to Miami (MIA), 17 August 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD
Flight duration: 8h48min
Aircraft type & class: B-747-200 EC-DIA Business Class
Meal: Lunch - Smoked trout with lobster salad, iberian ham and cured pork loin, fresh vegetable salad and plate of cheeses.
Drink: white spanish wine from Penedès
Comments: Except for the bread (the big lack in Iberia), quite good
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Madrid (MAD) to Miami (MIA), 17 August 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD
Flight duration: 8h48min
Aircraft type & class: B-747-200 EC-DIA Business Class
Meal: Snack - Oven-roasted stuffed chicken marinated king prawns, cheese, fresh fruit and almond chocolate pastry.
Drink: water and colombian coffee
Comments: The chicken was uneatible. Maybe because the tiredness at the end of the flight. The other items not bad.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Madrid (MAD) to Miami (MIA), 17 August 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD
Flight duration: 8h48min
Aircraft type & class: B-747-200 EC-DIA Business Class
Meal: Lunch (main dish) - Sea-bass with orange sauce, mixed white and wild rice, sautéed spicach and steamed carrots.
Drink: white spanish wine from Penedès
Comments: The fish to dry, hard to eat.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4

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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Barcelona (BCN) to Madrid (MAD), 17 August 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD (included in an intercontinental flight)
Flight duration: 1h12min
Aircraft type & class: A320 EC-FGV Business Class
Meal: Snack - two pieces of manchego chees, 2 pieces of spanish tortilla, two very small slices of salchichón and some bread.
Drink: beer
Comments: Not bad but, what a shame, the bread was wet, as usual in Iberia
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Francisco Camino
Flying from: SCQ to MAD on the 26th July 2003
Ticket price: 136 euros
Aircraft type and class: A320 in Business Class
Meal: Breakfast - Fruit salad, fresh orange juice, coffee, hot bread, pumpkin pastry, omelette, chicken breast, and ham
Drink: coffee and juice
Comments: nice breakfast but one has to rush, since the flying time is only 25 minutes. Although the hot meal was tasteful, it was a bit hard for vegetarians, or for not meat lovers. So instead of the huge amount of meat, some veggies (roast tomatoes, mushrooms or beans) could be appreciated
Rating: 8/10

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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Miami Intl MIA to Madrid Barajas MAD, 5 July 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD
Flight duration: 8hrs 15mins
Aircraft type & class: business Boeing 747-200 (C-25/E-4), EC-DNP
Meal: breakfast - Fruit salad, yoghourt and buns, butter, jam and honney
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 1

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Photo taken by: Aniceto Rodríguez Ruiz
Flying from: Miami Intl MIA to Madrid Barajas MAD, 5 July 2003
Ticket price: 2.800 USD
Flight duration: 8hrs 15mins
Aircraft type & class: business Boeing 747-200 (C-25/E-4), EC-DNP
Meal: dinner - dessert - Nutt coffee and vanilla ice-cream
Drink: coffee
Comments: Good before going to sleep.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5