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Photo taken by: Jan Ackermann
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Dinner - Mixed Salad with Knorr Cream Dressing
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Beef, Mash, Broccoli and Carrots
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Tiramisu
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Ceddar, Cracker, Roll, Butter
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Chocolate

Drink: Ceres Fruit Medley Juice (Guava, pineapple and other fruits), Boland Kelder 2005 Sauvignon Blanc
Comments: Hot item choice was the same as lunch (Chicken/Rice or Beef/Mash) - please think again, SAA Air Chefs!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Jan Ackermann
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Snack - Movie Snack: Ola Cup Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Topping
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Smoked Chicken on a Silverside Brown Roll, Beef, Roasted Pepper and Wholegrain Mustard Mayonnaise
Drink: La Vie Still Mineral Water
Comments: Ice cream replaced the missing lunch dessert. Sandwich was very good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Jan Ackermann
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Lunch - Chick Pea and Bean Salad
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Chicken, Rice, Vegetables
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Cheese, Crackers, Roll, Cream Cheese
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Chocolate
Drink: Bonnievale Cellar 2004 Chardonnay & La Vie Still Mineral Water
Comments: Sauerkraut on inbound flight, bean salad on outbound flight - someone at SAA apparently wants to save fuel and heat up the cabin with organic gas provided by passengers ;-)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

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Photo taken by: Volker Waelz
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Dinner (Special Meal - Vegetarian Ovo-Lacto - VLML) - Carrot, Cucumber and Tomato Salad
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Rice with Peppers, Carrots and Cream Sauce
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Fruit Salad
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Cheese, Crackers, Roll
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Chocolate
Drink: La Vie Still Mineral Water
Comments: Apart from starter salad, meal was exactly the same as lunch - boring!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Volker Waelz
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Snack (Special Meal - Vegetarian Ovo-Lacto - VLML) - Ola Cup Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Topping
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Brown Roll with Cream Cheese, Cucumber, Peppadew and Wholegrain Mustard Mayonnaise
Drink: La Vie Still Mineral Water
Comments: Ice Cream was served after lunch, sandwich mid-flight. Sandwich was like a wet sponge and not very tasty.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: Volker Waelz
Route: CPT - FRA, 2 Mar 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 50m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Lunch (Special Meal - Vegetarian Ovo-Lacto - VLML) - Chick Pea and Bean Salad
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Rice with Cheese Sauce, Peppers and Carrots
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Fruit Salad
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Cheese, Crackers, Roll, Butter
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Chocolate
Drink: Bonnievale Cellar 2004 Chardonnay & La Vie Still Mineral Water
Comments: Tasty, but not very imaginative.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Volker Waelz
Route: FRA - CPT, 20 Feb 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 55m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Breakfast (Special Meal - Vegetarian Ovo-Lacto - VLML) - Fruit Salad
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Roestis, Mushrooms and Vegetables
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Croissant with Orange Marmelade
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Fruit Yoghurt
Drink: Orange Juice
Comments: Hot item was a little bland.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Volker Waelz
Route: FRA - CPT, 20 Feb 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 55m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Dinner (Special Meal - Vegetarian Ovo-Lacto - VLML) - Celery Raisin Carrot Salad
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Pasta with vegetables
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Fruit Salad
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Hachez Chocolate
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Gouda Cheese and Crackers
Drink: La Vie Still Mineral Water & Bovlei White Wine
Comments: Starter salad was especially tasty.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Jan Ackermann
Route: FRA - CPT, 20 Feb 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 55m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Breakfast - Fruit Salad
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Scrambled Eggs with Potatoes and Grilled Tomato
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Croissant with Orange Marmelade
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Fruit Yoghurt
Drink: Orange Juice
Comments: Nice, that SAA still serves hot breakfast. Continental breakfast was available, too.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Jan Ackermann
Route: FRA - CPT, 20 Feb 2006
Ticket price: 952.11 EUR
Flight duration: 11h 55m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus 340-600
Meal: Dinner - Glass Noodle Salad with Shrips
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Sausage with Mash and Sauerkraut
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Peach Cream Cake
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Hachez Chocolate
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Gouda Cheese and Crackers
Drink: La Vie Still Mineral Water & Douglas Green 2004 Chardonnay
Comments: Meal was tasty and filling, but who combines Asian glass noodles with German sauerkraut? A case of extreme crossover cuisine? Furthermore: serving sauerkraut at the beginning of a 12-hour overnight flight is not an especially great idea. Unfortunately, the other dinner option was not available anymore when service reached me...
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Samer Bahsoon
Route: DKR - JNB, 19 Feb 2006
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 8h 30m
Class: economy
Aircraft: A340-300 / ZS-SXB
Meal: Lunch - Fish with cream and rice-Coconut cake for dessert with cheese and bread
Drink: i had diet coke and orange juice
Comments: Very good we had breakfast before and its was pancakes or scrambled eggs!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: Cyrille
Route: Jo'burg JNB, South Africa - Züri ZRH, Switzerland, 21 Sep 2005
Ticket price: ID
Flight duration: 10h 35m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus A340-211, ZS-SLD
Meal: dinner - main - Dinner: Beef with safran rice and vegetables, salad and chocolate cake.
Breakfast: Croissant, fruit salad, low-fat yoghurt, egg, patatoes and a tomato.
Drink: Pre-dinner drink: Gin tonic, South African Red Wine, tea after meal; Ginger Ale during the night; OJ and tea during breakfast
Comments: The meat was not very tender (one point off), but overall a good meal. Apart of the strange low-fat yoghurt the breakfast was nice, not many airlines still serve hot breakfast, additionally they made two coffee services. I have to take another point off for the lack of Baileys after dinner and half a point for not giving us a bottle of water before the night as they did on the flight to South Africa.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5

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Photo taken by: Cyrille
Route: Durbs DUR, South Africa - Jo'burg JNB, South Africa, 21 Sep 2005
Ticket price: ID
Flight duration: 1h 10m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Boeing 737-844, ZS-SJU
Meal: snack - Chicken-mayo sandwich
Drink: Hot Castle Beer
Comments: The service began, we got the sandwich and had to wait nearly 20 minutes for the drink. When I was finally served the beer (you can see that I finished the sandwich in the meantime) it was really warm. The sandwich was ok, but in all I was disappointed, the course of the service wasn't good, it should be possible to get the sandwich and the (cool) beverage at the same time.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

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Photo taken by: Cyrille
Route: Züri ZRH, Switzerland - Jo'burg JNB, South Africa, 11 Sep 2005
Ticket price: ID
Flight duration: 10h 45m
Class: economy
Aircraft: Airbus A340-211, ZS-SLD
Meal: dinner - main - Dinner: Choice of chinese chicken or beef stroganoff, prawn salad and a mousse of chocolat.
Breakfast: Choice of egg or cold meat (not pictured)
Drink: Gin Tonic (pre-dinner drink), South African Red Wine, later on tea; tea and OJ during breakfast
Comments: It's nice to get a pre-dinner drink, but they forgot the salted nuts. Also, you have to order the drinks for the meal at the same time as there is no more drink service with the meal, which I think is a bit strange. The picture with the tea is my 150th picture for this site ;-)
The meals were quite good, but is has nothing to do with chinese chicken or stroganoff...
The breakfast was a classic plane-breakfast. However some airlines substituted the plate by a cardbox with nothing inside, I still prefer the trays.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5

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Photo taken by: Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Route: Johannesburg - Atlanta, 13 Sep 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 20h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft:
Meal: Dinner/snack/Breakfast -
1: Pre Dinner Drink and peanuts
2: Dinner (Muslim Meal) Rice and Chicken curry with some vegetables, some bread and biscuits with butter and cheese. Green salad and some dessert
3: Night snack of Turkey sandwich (Muslim meal)
4: Break Fast Muslim with omelette with chicken sausage and vegetable patty. Fresh fruits and muesli with milk.

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Comments: Dinner was pretty good and chicken curry and rice really made my day. Muslim meal here was a "real" muslim meal and not just a vegetarian food like other airlines.
Turkey sandwich was pretty good too and may be we liked it because we were pretty hungry after the first leg of flight.
Breakfast was again quite good with chicken sausage which was really tasty and fresh fruits etc.

Thinking about the whole duration of flight I think food was small in quantity but good in taste.
High ranking for giving actual Muslim meal and not just vegetrain food and also based on taste. They could have secured perfect 10 if food quantity was alittle more too.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Dr Rana Jawad Asghar
Route: ATlanta - johannesburg, 27 Aug 2005
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 20h 00m
Class: economy
Aircraft:
Meal: Lunch/snack/Breakfast -
1: Pre Lunch Drink
2: Lunch (Muslim Meal) Couscous instead of salad, vegetable patty with some vegetables, some bread and biscuits with butter. Dried peaches and some Middle Eastern dessert.
3: My neigbour's Diabetic Food
4: Night snack of Turkey sandwich
5: Break Fast Muslim with french toasts with creamalized apples and apple sauce, some fresh fruits, a middleeastern sweet and bread and butter
Drink:
Comments: Lunch was pretty good even though it was more like vegetarian than Muslim. Dried peaches and other stuff was good to taste and still healthy.
Turkey sandwich was pretty good too and may be we liked it because we were pretty hungry after the first leg of flight.
Breakfast was tasty but still too little.
Thinking about the whole duration of flight I think food was small in quantity but good in taste.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7.5

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Photo taken by: Holger Westig
Route:(JHB) Johannesberg to (FRA) Frankfurt, 12 November 2004 (SA260)
Economy SA
Ticket Price: 1200€
Flight duration: 11 h
Aircraft type & class: Airbus 340-642 (ZS-SNA) (Economy)
Meal type: Dinner
Drink: Beer & Wine
Comments: Another great flight from SAA, they really seem to be pulling there socks up of late, cannot fault the service one bit, very polite and always smiling, what ever you wanted they seemed to get.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Canon Ixus


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Photo taken by: Maayan Harel
Route: Port Elizabeth,SA - Johanesburg,SA, 28 Sep 2004
Ticket price: 300 USD
Flight duration: 1:30 hours
Aircraft type & class: 737-800 - Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Pasta with onions and sliced beef
Cheese
Butter
Biscuits
Drink: of choice (i took apple juice (not in the photo)
Comments: For a 1 hour flight, better than expected !
The pasta was great, as the other things. nothing to complain really...
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
Camera brand & type: Pentax Optio S4

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Photo taken by: Martin Young
Route: Paris - Johannesburg, 8 Aug 2004
Ticket price: n/a
Flight duration: 11 hours
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A340-200 Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Lamb fillet coated with a herb crust, served with a lemon, herb and pepper sauce, accompagnied by steamed potatoes with parsley and mixed vegetables
Drink: Castle Lager Beer
Comments: Food was excellent!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Olympus Camedia C-300

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Photo taken by: THLIN
Route: Windhoek to Jo'burg, 3 Sep 2004
Ticket price: R2800 round trip
Flight duration: 2 hrs
Aircraft type & class:economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: lunch
Contents of the meal: beef, pasta, beans, dessert.
Drink: coke, tea and water
Comments: Why not give us some more food, it's lunch time!!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Qulity is 9, portion is 5 and service is 9.5.
Camera brand & type: Kodak 7430

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Photo taken by: Rip Russell
Route: Atlanta to Johannesburg, 4 Jan 2004
Flight duration: 13.5 Hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Lunch Appetizer & Lunch Main Course
APPETIZER: Rare ternderloin marinated with Basil Pesto with grilled portobello mushroom, fresh asparagus and roasted red pepper...dash of dijon mustard...
LUNCH MAIN COURSE: Seared Beef Fillet w/ herb demi-glace..carrot & turnip hash, sauteed mushrooms and mixed rice...
CHEESE & DESSERT: Peach & Sour Cherry Tart with whipped cream and fresh mint;
Various fine cheeses with crackers and dired cranberries
Drink: South African Pinotage
Comments: Not too shabby. They actually trusted me with a metal butter knife instead of the ubiquitous post-911 plastic ones provided by other carriers.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: Rip Russell
Route: ATL - JWB, 4 Jan 2004
Ticket price: Withheld
Flight duration: 13.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: 747-400, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Snack
Contents of the meal: Mixed Nuts
Drink: Pinotage Wine
Comments: Difficult to ruin mixed nuts. But then again, this is one of the longest non-stop routes on Earth. Could have been something more elegant. Nuts to SAA for the nuts.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5

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Photo taken by: casaberg
Flying from: Johannesburg to Zurich, 10 April 2003
Flight duration: 9h50m
Aircraft type & class: Boeing747-200, Business
Meal type: Breakfast - Fruits (not sweet), Roll (very old), Fruit yogurt
(slimey), Muesli (that ones was good).
Drink: soft drinks, coffee/tea.
Comments: Nothing special. Had better ones in Economy.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3

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Photo taken by: casaberg
Flying from: Johannesburg to Zurich, 10 April 2003
Flight duration: 9h50m
Aircraft type & class: Boeing747-200, Business
Meal type: Dinner - Smoked salmon wedge with a selection of smoked fish drizzled with dill and lime dressing, garden greens.
Grilled chicken fillet served with a red wine jus and cream leek bake, baby fennel and beetroot chutney.
Lemon tart served with a wild berry coulis.
Cheese plate with assorted crackers, dry fruits.
Drink: soft drinks, beer or selection of 2 white - 2 red wines, coffee/tea.
Comments: salmon/fish plate was ok. Main course tasty. The cheese plate (not pictured) not worth mentioning.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7 (cheese plate pulled it down)

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Photo taken by: casaberg
Flying from: Zurich to Johannesburg, 5 April 2003
Flight duration: 9h40m
Aircraft type & class: Boeing747-300, Economy
Meal type: Breakfast - Mixed fruit salad. Fruit-flavoured yogurth. Scrambled egg with chicken sausage and grilled tomato.
Drink: soft drinks, coffee/tea.
Comments: This was one of my two airline birthday breakfasts. I wish I had been on ground again. :-)
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Photo taken by: casaberg
Flying from: Zurich to Johannesburg, 5 April 2003
Flight duration: 9h40m
Aircraft type & class: Boeing747-300, Economy
Meal type: Dinner - Iceberg salad with chicken julienne topped with garlic croutons. Chicken strips with pesto served on a bed of penne pasta and topped with ratatouille. Pear in chocolat sauce covered with almond flakes. Cheese and biscuits.
Drink: soft drinks, beer or wine, coffee/tea.
Comments: the dessert tasted best.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6 because of the dessert

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Photo taken by: Kevin A. Schunke
Flying from: Frankfurt to Johannesburg, 1 August 2002
Class: First
Meal type: Dessert - Crispy apple tart served with creme anglaise and fresh berries
Comments: "Yes....at 35,000 feet, the tart tasted as if it had just been pulled from the oven. Well prepared creme and very fresh and tasty berries."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: Kevin A. Schunke
Flying from: Frankfurt to Johannesburg, 1 August 2002
Class: First
Meal type: Main Course - Veal loin stuffed with pate, duchesse potatoes, and green beans/chanterelles mix
Comments: "One of the best in-flight meals ever....even better than Concorde service. Not only was the veal tender, but the accents of the pate made it quite memorable."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: Kevin A. Schunke
Flying from: Frankfurt to Johannesburg, 1 August 2002
Class: First
Meal type: Appetizer - Platter of sushi, charcuterie, air-dried meats, pates, seafood, with various sauces
Comments: "The appetizer platter would have been a good meal by itself. Not only a good variety, but very tasty, topped off with a great mix of sauces, from wasabi to mustard to fruit sauces - I can honestly say the best in-flight meal service ever provided. (A half-point deduction since the purser pointed out, albeit quite apologetically, that 'customer surveys' indicated the passengers wanted one course removed from dinner service, and the caviar was deleted!)"
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9.5

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Photo taken by: John Spillane
Flying from: Atlanta to Cape Town, 16 July 2002
Class: Coach
Meal type: Dinner - Beef casserole served with sauteed mixed vegetables and roasted red potato wedge.
Drink: Diet Coke
Comments: "Very tasty meal for coach. Ice cream bar followed."
Rating: 8

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Photo taken by: Abram Chan
Flying from: Johannesberg to Capetown, 20 April 2002
Class: Economy
Meal type: Breakfast - Scrambled egg, sausage, a half tomato, yogurt, bread roll
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: "Very nice presentation and the tray looks very updated. the entree is hot the egg tasted very good. Service is excellent on board this immaculate B738."
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
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