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Photo taken by: Shek
Route: Tokyo - Hong Kong, 23 Apr 2004
Ticket price: Free (cheapest available HK$2200)
Flight duration: 4.25 hours
Aircraft type & class: B747-400
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Dinner

(i) Salad - Vinegarette
(ii) Korean Style Chicken
rice, chicken, carrots, green chinese veg, beans sprout
(iii) Cookies with chocolate
(iv) Bread

Drink: White Wine
Comments: Delicious Korean style Chicken (perhaps I was hungry. Cookies also tasted very good. White Wine was also quite pleasant.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8 Overall.
9.5 Main
7 Salad
8 Cookies
6 for the small portion
Camera brand & type: Nikon 5400

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Photo taken by: Phil Krajewski
Route: San Francisco - Sydney, 11 Mar 2004
Ticket price: $1700Au
Flight duration: 14 housr
Aircraft type & class: 747-400 Scum (economy)
Business or leisure trip: Beer appreciation
Meal type: Attempt at dinner
Contents of the meal: strange pasta filled with cheese, bread roll, salad, crackers & cheese.
Drink: Miller genuine draught
Comments: Well the food was pretty disgusting but they made up for it in quantity. (I asked for two meals)
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6 for food but overall 10 because they kept my from going hungry!
Camera brand & type: Minolta

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Photo taken by: PacNWJet
Route: San Francisc (SFO) - Kona, Hawaii (KOA), 20 Mar 2004
Flight duration: 5 hours, 25 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757, First Class
Type of trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: First course: Seasonal greens with a tropical fruit relish with balsamic dijon vinaigrette; Main Course: Macadamia nut-crusted mahi mahi with fried rice and tropical storm marmelade (menu included sauteed spinach, but my wife asked for it not to be served).
Drink: Luis Felipe Edwards Colchagua Reserve Merlot 2002
Comments: It is nice that United still features Hawaiian-inspired cuisine on its flights to the islands. Nonetheless, any airline chef should think long and hard before including fish in airborne dining. Sushi and sashimi are hard to screw up (as long as the fish is fresh), and fish served in a heavy cream-based sauce also can pass muster. But unless the fish is super-fresh, prehaps 35,000 above sea level is not the best place for a creature that normally resides in the sea thousands of feet below.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: PacNWJet
Route: San Francisc (SFO) - Kona, Hawaii (KOA), 20 Mar 2004
Flight duration: 5 hours, 25 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757, First Class
Type of trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: First course: Seasonal greens with a tropical fruit relish with country ranch dressing; Main Course: Keauhou stuffed breast of chicken with ulapalehuha stuffing with bacon and macadamia nuts, sauteed vegetables, and mashed sweet potatoes; Dessert: Ice cream with sundae toppings (served with decaffinated coffee).
Drink: Water
Comments: Glad to see United is still highlighting island cuisine on its Hawaii-bound flights. It gets you in the mood for a vacation in the tropics. The stuffing in the chicken was particularly tasty, and the vegetables expertly prepared (no small feat in an airplane environment).
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Omar Hasan
Route: ORD-LHR, 19 Mar 2004
Ticket price: $490
Flight duration: 7 hours
Aircraft type & class: B777-200, coach
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Muslim meal
Contents of the meal: Meal contained Chicken pasta, fresh salad, naan bread, daal salad, and Habshi Halva
Drink: Water and Mountain Dew
Comments: Wow, didn’t expect to actually have Halal meat in cattle class of United, but well done in deed, the Habshi halva was decent and the chicken was hot and fresh, the flight back was even better, too bad I couldn’t get a picture cause my camera battery died L
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6 for the food, 10 for having Halal meat!
Camera brand & type Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC20

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Photo taken by: RuthR
Route: Kona, Hawaii-San Francisco, 25 Dec 2003
Ticket price: Free
Flight duration: 5 hr
Aircraft type & class: B767-300/Y
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Vegetarian Lunch
Contents of the meal: Pasta Primavera, iceberg lettuce salad, melon
Drink: LaCroix Mineral Water
Comments: Nice flight, fast, food not too bad, flight pretty empty
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6
Camera brand & type: Canon Powershot A40

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Photo taken by: RuthR
Route: Kona, Hawaii-San Francisco, 25 Dec 2003
Ticket price: Free
Flight duration: 5 hr
Aircraft type & class: B767-300/Y
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Kid's meal Lunch
Contents of the meal: Chicken "fingers" (do chickens have fingers??), fries, melon, fruit drops, lots of ketchup
Drink: Apple Juice
Comments: Nice flight, I really liked the chicken
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8
Camera brand & type: Canon Powershot A40

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Photo taken by: RuthR
Route: SFO - Kona Hawaii, 17 Dec 2003
Ticket price: Free
Flight duration: 5h15
Aircraft type & class: B757-200/Y
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Grilled chicken over rice, mandarins, iceberg lettuce salad, crackers, cookie
Drink: water
Comments: Surly crew, short handed
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5
Camera brand & type: Canon PowerShot A40

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Photo taken by: Leigh Harrington
Route: UA934, LHR to LAX, 20 Feb 2004
Ticket: approx £350
Flight duration: 13 hrs
Aircraft, class: Boeing 777 Economy section
Business, leisure: Leisure trip
Meal: Light lunch an hour before landing - Ham and cheese roll, ready salted crisps, twix
Drink: Starbucks coffee
Comments: The roll was rather dry, only a snack after the main meal about 8 hrs earlier. Nothing to get excited about.
Rating: 3/10
Photo taken on Fuji F401, which I would recommend!

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Photo taken by: John Beauchamp
Route: IAD to SFO, 21 Mar 2004
Ticket price: $475
Flight duration: 5.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 767-300ER, business (with upgrade)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
To Begin:
Heartland field greens with carrots and yellow bell peppers with classic ceasar dressing.
Main Course:
Spinach and ricotta stuffed chicken with tarragon cream sauce
Potatoes au gratin and stir-fried vegetables
Dessert:
Eli's Tiramisu
Drink: 2002 Luis Felipe Edwards Colchagua Reserve Merlot
Comments: This was really, really good. The salad was average. But the main course and desert were excellent. The chicken was still very tender, the stuffing was amazing, so were the au gratin potatoes. I also enjoyed my glass of wine (quite good wine too) being topped off everytime the glass got to half full. The tiramisu was a nice change of desest (I don't care for cheesecake, which they usually serve). Note: Domestic United business has real salt and pepper shakers for dinner, but only had disposable salt and pepper for breakfast on the flight out.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Olympus D-510 Zoom

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Photo taken by: John Beauchamp
Route: IAD to SFO, 14 Mar 2004
Ticket price: $475
Flight duration: 4.25 hours
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 767-300ER, business class (using upgrade)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
To Begin:
Fresh from the bakery, a selection of Danish, croissants and bagels with butter, creame cheese and fruit preserves.
Main Course:
Asparagus, potatoe and pepper firttata with fresh fruit appertizer, creme cheese blintz with dried fruit, cognac and pecans, orange sauce, sauteed Canadian and sliced bacon.
Drink: Bloody Mary
Comments: This was just average. Wasn't sure what to do with the tub of melted butter (called "orange sauce" on the menu), but anything I dipped in it tasted worse than before. The Danish was tough as nails at the edge, but I cut out the middle and it was decent. The strawberry and 4 grapes were delicious. Great bloody mary. Note: Breakfast in United's domestic business class now only gets disposable salt and pepper, although dinner on the return flights got actual salt and pepper shakers.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4
Camera brand & type: Olympus D-510 Zoom

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Photo taken by: Karen Rhoduski
Route: BWI-DEN, November 2003
Ticket price: $425
Flight duration: 3 hours, 50 minutes
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757-200, First (upgrade)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Filet mignon with chunky barbecue sauce, green beans with onions, garlic and herb mashed potatoes, Parker-house roll/butter, fruit bowl with grapes and melon. Warm chocolate-chip cookies and after-dinner drinks followed the meal.
Drink: Red wine, ice-water. Coffee and Bailey's after dinner.
Comments: The long-absent hot meal returns to United's "mid-con" flights - a great surprise! The steak was delicious and perfectly-cooked. Yes, this looks a bit strange with a fruit bowl instead of a salad, but it's a huge improvement over the chef salad/deli plate served on this route in the recent past. This flight was VERY turbulent (I regretted the coffee and Bailey's since I almost ended up wearing it as it splashed around) and the crew really hustled to feed all 24 of us while they weren't strapped in on the captain's orders.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9

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Photo taken by: Karen Rhoduski
Route: LAX-BWI, November 2003
Ticket price: $425
Flight duration: 4 hours, 45 minutes
Aircraft type & class: A320, First (upgrade)
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Breakfast
Contents of the meal: Scrambled eggs in a phyllo-dough "purse," link sausages, salsa, melted butter, almond-filled bear claw/butter, fruit bowl with oranges, melons and grapes. Before landing we were served warm oatmeal-raisin cookies and milk.
Drink: Black coffee, ice water, OJ
Comments: This was a nice breakfast, fresh and tasty. The fruit bowl is actually a "double" since the stranger sitting next to me gave me his oranges and grapes (he was allergic to them). Very nice service in the 12-passenger F cabin.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8

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Photo taken by: T.J.
Route: SEA - NRT, 15 Jan 2004
Ticket price: $550 (+300 promotional upgrade)
Flight duration: 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: 777, business
Meal Type: Dinner, Lunch
Contents of Meal: Western and Japanese-style appetizer selections, entrees and dessert (cheese and fruit plate or sundae cart), pre-landing pasta meal.
Drink: Wine, Sake, teas, coffee.
Comments: Good food, great service.
Rating 1-10: 8 for the western-style items, 9 for the Japanese-style items (according to my travel companion)