516-517-518-519

516-517-518-519

516-517-518-519

516-517-518-519
Photo taken by: cesco.g
Route: SFO-FRA, 6 May 2004
Ticket price: $ 1600
Flight duration: 10h30
Aircraft type & class: B777, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Business
Meal type: Dinner
1) Appetizer: Spced Shrimp & Parma Ham
2) Garden Salad
3) Main Course: Corinader-crusted halibut with lemon beurre blanc
4) Cheese (Stilton & Black Diamond Cheddar
5) Ice Cream
Drink: Champagne Brut Pol Rogers NV,
Rutherford Ranch Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc 2001
Lambert BRidge Sonoma County Merlot 2000
Comments: Appetizer composition was very tasty & decent quantity
Fish was moist, delicious accompained by a delicate sauce
Rating: 9 for appetizer
10 for main course
8 for salad & dessert
3 for cheese

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Photo taken by: Franz Zedlacher
Route: ORD-DEN, 6 May 2004
Ticket price: $384.10/rt. (For DCA-ASE)
Flight duration: 2 Hours 31 Minutes
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777-200, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Business Trip
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Roll, Salad with Vinagrette Dressing, Warm Pasta with tomato sauce, and Cheescake for Dessert
Drink: Milk
Comments: It is great to see hot meals return to domestic business and first class on United. The meal was preceeded by a pre-departure beverage, cocktail in the air, and a warm moist towelette. The meal was great, and would have recieved a 10 if the roll was warm. Good job, United!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 9
Camera brand & type: Nokia 3650 Cameraphone

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513-514
Photo taken by: LLL
Route: GRU to ORD, 5 May 2004
Flight duration: 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: B767, Business Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Various
[513] * Appetizer and salad. I ate all my salad before taking the picture. Salmon with leeks and capers. Foccacia bread
[514] * Fettuccini with shrimp and scallops. It was delicously
Comments: There were no menus. They also did not serve dessert. It was either the cheese plate or nothing (maybe the crew were saving it all). Also, the crew hurried through the entire service so those geriatic FA's could get their rest before they shrivel up and die! The entree came very quickly after the appetizer. I am glad I didn't pay full fare for this because it certainly was not worth it!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Food 8 Service 4

509-510-511-512

509-510-511-512

509-510-511-512

509-510-511-512
Photo taken by: LLL
Route: ORD to GRU, 30 Apr 2004
Flight duration: 10 hours
Aircraft type & class: B767, First Class
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Various
[509] * The Queen Mary cart with a selection of imported cheese, crackers, fruits and port. (sorry, it was dark in the cabin and I didn't want to use my
flash)
[510] * Cheese plate
[511] * Ice cream sundae!!
[512] * Breakfast about 1 1/2 hrs before landing in Sao Paulo. An omelete with hollandaise sauce, sausages, bacon and potatoes. Croissant with jam.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): Great food and great service. I was seated next to a very grumpy frequent flyer who treated the FA's really badly. She handled it extremely well though. I also forgot to take pictures of the dinner before the cheese selection picture.

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507-508
Photo taken by: JMFleetwood
Route: ORD - SEA, 18 Feb 2004
Ticket price: $358 USD
Flight duration: 4:45
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 777-200, Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch "Meal On Board" $7 USD
Eli's Cheesecake Company's turkey, egg, and cheese croissant; blueberry yogurt; fruit cup
Drink: Mott's tomato juice
Comments: The hardboiled egg was a surprisingly good addition to what was a very large and fresh turkey sandwich. The yogurt was unremarkable and the fruit cup was fresh, cool, and delicious.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 8 (10 if it was free)
Camera brand & type: Canon G5

505-506

505-506
Photo taken by: Bartosz
Route: NRT-SFO, 28 Mar 2004
Ticket price: USD700 (upgraded from Y due to oversales)
Flight duration: 10 hrs
Aircraft type & class: 744 C
Business or leisure trip: business
Meal type: Japanese Obento
Appetizer: spicy vinegared horse mackerel, shrimp with lily root, shiitake mushroom stuffed egg, simmered sweet potato and udon noodles.
Main course: silver cod in soy mirin sauce with shimeji mushrooms, vegetables, gingko nuts and steamed rice
Drink: green tea and United’s in-house junmai sake
Comments: I have had Northwest’s Japanese meal in business class many times and this one was a bit nicer as there were two servings (appetizer and main meal served in separate dishes) – on NW you used to get just one box with a lot of food on it. Now I hear NW has a new Japanese meal menu but haven’t had it yet. Other than this, I was shocked at how tacky and cheap the paper menu was (one sheet folded in half – drink menu printed on the back sleeve!). UA has discontinued all soft drinks other than orange juice, Pepsi and tomato juice – so, no cranberry juice for example. The sake was not so great; NW has ginjo sake which is of higher quality and cleaner taste. Many small plates and dishes were plastic, which was also tacky. However, I was impressed that the tray liner and tea cup had a cherry blossom design – the flight attendants said UA changes their Japanese meal setup every season, which shows a lot of attention is being paid here (clearly, the Tokyo UA kitchen must have a nice budget!). The service was so-so, one flight attendant was very nice and the other very rude. The Japanese F/As weren’t very sophisticated (haphazard, rushed announcements, not especially friendly) as compared with NW’s Japanese IFSR’s who are hand-picked.
The food was of good quality ingredients and aesthetically arranged. The cod was a bit greasy but otherwise good.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

501-502-503-504

501-502-503-504

501-502-503-504

501-502-503-504
Photo taken by: Shek
Route: Hong Kong - Tokyo, 15 Apr 2004
Ticket price: Mileage Free Ticket (cheapest available ~HK$2200)
Flight duration: 3.5 hours
Aircraft type & class: B747-400 Economy
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch

(i) Salad - Thousand Island dressing
(ii) Seafood (Shrimp, Salmon, White fish) in spicy Thai sauce + Rice + Green beans
(iii) Fruit (Water Melon, Pineapple, Yellow Melon)
(iv) Bread

Drink: Bloody Mary Mix (spicy tomato juice)
Comments: (i) Salad - good fresh crisp
(ii) Thai source tastes good and rice is soft, but the
fish and shrimp is not very fresh
(iii) Fruit - nothing special
(iv) Bread - awful !! Like being left overnight.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 5 Overall (just pass)
7 Salad
4 Main course
7 Fruit
0 Bread
Camera brand & type: Nikon 5400