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Photo taken by: Kevin English
Route: LHR to SFO, 21 Nov 2003
Ticket price: approx GBP. 300 rtn inc taxes
Flight duration: approx 10 hrs 30 mins
Aircraft type & class: B777, Y Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Snack
Crisps (potato chips), chocolate bar, roll withg ham and cheese.
Drink: Heineken, coffee
Comments: Not much content. the sandwich looked pretty
disgusting but ended up tasting OK. If it wasn't for the Heineken and
good Starbucks coffee, this would have been 3 out of 10 points.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5
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Photo taken by: Kevin English
Route: LHR to SFO, 21 Nov 2003
Ticket price: approx GBP. 300 rtn inc taxes
Flight duration: approx 10 hrs 30 mins
Aircraft type & class: B777, Y Class
Business or leisure trip?: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Salad, Chicken with carrots and spinach risotto, camembert cheese + grapes
+ crackers, Cadburys vanilla ice cream.
Drink: Bloody Mary, Red wine, coffee
Comments: the meal tasted much better than it looks.
The spinach risotto was nice. Was good to get some British Ice cream for
dessert. The UA coffee is pretty good stuff. Overall, I think that the
UA Y-class food service is still OK. Other airlines are cutting their
service levels but UA still manage to do a good job.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7
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Photo taken by: Luigi Vallero
Route: Honolulu to Los Angeles, 14 Nov 2003
Flight Duration: 5hours
Class: Economy class on B767-300.
Meal type: Refreshment-Dinner-Breakfast (??)... a bag
of mini-pretzels
Drink: a can of Seven-Up out of a selection of soft drinks/juices/beer/
tea/coffee.
Comments: True, this red-eye flight was scheduled to
depart at 10pm arriving LAX at 5am; true it left on time arriving slightly
ahead of schedule; true the cabin crew was cheerful and efficient and
the cabin clean and fresh. But it was anyway a 5 hours trans-pacific flight
and many passengers (including myself) didn't have dinner before departing,
so all we got was a bag of mini-pretzels (!!) and a can of soda, plus
- 20 minutes before landing - a juice! I was not expecting much food,
but this was far beyond my expectations: UA has been cutting too much
on costs, and it shows... Funny they proclaim on the paper napkins "We're
glad you're here", but then give you nothing to munch!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): for the flight experience +8,
for the food: 0!
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Photo taken by: John Beauchamp
Route: London to San Francisco, 11 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $438
Flight duration: 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: B777 - Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Pasta, salad with Asian sesame ginger dressing,
Camembert cheese with grapes with crackers, roll and butter. Ice creme
for dessert.
Drink: Gin and tonic.
Comments: Pasta was way too salty. The pasta on the way
out was so good I had to take a chance with this one. A big disappointment
comparatively. The pasta was also dry at the edges. Roll was suprisingly
fresh for coming wrapped in plastic.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
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Photo taken by: J-H
Route: AMS-IAD, 16 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $418
Flight duration: 8.5hrs
Aircraft type & class: 777-200 business
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Appetizer of Smoked Salmon, Main Course Fillet Mignon,
Desert Cheese and Tawny Port
Drink: Bubbly (Pommery nv.)
Comments: Fillet was surprisingly palatable, much better
than UA food, meal, catering out of NRT
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
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Photo taken by: John Beauchamp
Route: San Francisco to London LHR, 7 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $438
Flight duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes
Aircraft type & class: B777 economy
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: lunch - Stuffed shells, salad, roll, grapes,
Brie, crackers, cheesecake.
Drink: Syrah from France (really good)
Comments: This was delicious. Not only was the pasta
cooked perfectly (amazing for being on an airplane), but the Brie was
nearly the best I've ever tasted (I don't eat a lot of Brie but it was
so good, I almost asked the gentleman next to me for his). The service
was also excellent. This was my first international trip so that may be
part of it, but it seemed as if United had put its best flight attendants
in the fleet on that flight. My buddy who I met in London flew in from
Chicago and had the same meal choices on his flight said the beef that
he picked was not very good. Stick with the pasta.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
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Photo taken by: David Knapp
Route: Chicago to Beijing, China, 11 Nov 2003
Ticket Price: $499
Flight Duration: 12 hrs
Aircraft type and class: 747 coach, Leisure Trip
Meal Type: Lunch
1 Cup Chinese Noodles
1 Apple
1 set Chopsticks
1 Spork
1 Lemon Cookie
Drink: Bloody Mary Mix
Comments: A little bland. I expected a little more spice
in the noodles.
Rating 1-10: 5
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Photo taken by: Jerrod Larson
Route: SEA (Seattle) to IAD (Washington Dulles), 3 Nov
2003
Ticket price: $356
Flight duration: 4 hrs
Aircraft type & class: 757, economy
Meal type: Breakfast
Small orange juice container, orange-ish cake in cellophane wrapper, omelet,
sausages, and homefried potatoes.
Drink: Coffee
Comments: The omelet wasn’t special, but reasonable
(can one mess-up an omelet?) and arrived nicely cooked. The sausages looked
too disturbing to eat (see picture). The orange-ish cake was a curiosity
– its wrapper had no descriptors on it, save the nutrition facts,
so it was hard to tell what exactly it was before the first bite. It was
indeed orange flavor, which is different, but was overwhelmingly sweet
and sterile – much closer to a Twinkee than a breakfast cake. It
also stuck to my teeth, which didn’t help its evaluation.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7 (points off for sausage).
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Photo taken by: S. Yasu
Route: KIX - SFO, 31 Oct 2003
Ticket Price: JPY64000 (RT KIX-SFO-JFK)
Flight duration: 9:00
Aircraft Type & class: B777-200,Business
Business or Leisure Trip: Leisure
Meal Type: Breakfast-creamed spinach omelette with shiitake
mushroom sauce
Drink: apple juice,water,coffee
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
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Photo taken by: S. Yasu
Route: KIX - SFO, 31 Oct 2003
Ticket Price: JPY64000 (RT KIX-SFO-JFK)
Flight duration: 9:00
Aircraft Type & class: B777-200,Business
Business or Leisure Trip: Leisure
Meal Type: Lunch -TO BEGIN:shrimp sushi and carrot kampyo
maki with gari, garden salad
MAIN:filet mignon with bacon demi-glace
DESSERT:caramel apple flan
Drink: Chablis chardonnay,water,coffee
Comments: Totally good
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
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Photo taken by: Ed King
Route: SFO-IAD, 21 Oct 2003
Ticket price: USD $278 RT
Flight duration: about 4 and one-half hours
Aircraft type: B777-200, Y class
Business or leisure: Leisure
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Fruit Plate selection; Orange juice and a vanilla
muffin
Drink: Coffee (not shown)
Comments: Fruit plate was fresh though melon slice and
pineapple spear were a tad under-ripe, however, the muffin was soggy.
Something felt missing. Got hungry again by the last hour of the trip
and the pretzles with the second round of drinks didn't relieve the hunger.
Good thing I had bought a bagel prior to take off.
Rating 1-10 (worst to best): 5
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Photo taken by: Ed King
Route: IAD-SFO, 17 Oct 2003
Ticket price: USD $278
Flight duration: about 5 hours
Aircraft type & class: B777-200, assigned to Economy
Plus cabin on stand-by basis
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: mixed Green salad w/ Kens's Vinaigrette Dressing;
Baked Chicken Breast w/ Barbeque sauce, roasted corn and mashed red potatoes,
Chocolate Cheese cake, Brie with grapes and crackers, roll and butter
Drink: Ginger Ale (barely visible)
Comments: Great chicken, moist white meat; fancy lettuce
though the leaves tended to fall off the fork and out of the dish; the
cheese plate seemed to be an additional dish not usually presented on
domestic Economy class flights. Coffee service not shown.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 10
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Photo taken by: Seoung-Jun Lee
Route: Incheon, South Korea to San Fransisco, 8 Sep 2003
Ticket price: $1000(BOS-SFO-ICN-SFO-BOS)
Flight duration: approximily 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: B777-200, United Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal:
Appitizer: mini shrimp with cucumber Kimche and a slice of tomato
Main: Bulgogi-Korean marinated beef with sprinkles of green onions on
top, green veggie, and steamed rice.
Dessert: Somewhat coffee flavored cake.
Others: Dinner roll with butter, and salad with thousand island dressing
Drink: Everything you want! Thry even served green tea
afterwards, which was very nice!
Comments: Very impressive! I was very glad to have tasty
Korean dish served by very friendly Korean flight attandent, and again,
green tea service was very nice. Cake was little disappointing, though.
Also, beef was little too hard to chew.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8.8
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Photo taken by: Pamela Schoene
Route: Frankfurt - Washington, 19 July 2003
Flight duration: about 6hrs
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777, economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: snack
Contents of the meal: crisps, Kit-Kat and a roll
Drink: Coffee
Comments: "Care for a snack, sir?" Looking
at what was in the box, we didn't really care for a snack! Chio Chips
Paprika, a huge Nestles Chunky Kit-Kat and a roll with a slice of what
may have been cheese and two slices of turkey sausage. The glaze on the
roll stuck to one's upper gum on biting into it - what a way to be woken
up! Coffee was OK, though.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5
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