Edinburgh (EDI) to London Heathrow (LHR), 1969-12-31
Date added:
2009-11-24
Flight duration:
1h 00m
Flight class:
business
Aircraft:
A321
or leisure trip:
Meal:
Drink:
Water
Tea
Comments:
The alternative to the vegetarian risotto
was a pork sausage and apple thing which didn't sound too appetising,
so unusually for me I took the vegetarian option. Turned out to be a good
idea. The risotto was very tasty. The sliced fruit selection was very
fresh. I still miss the cheese on British Midland.
Breakfast
Scottish Breakfast including sausage, bacon, plum tomato, haggis, hash
brown, brown sauce (there was a selection of sauces). Banana yoghurt.
Roll (selection), marmalade and butter. Hard mints.
Drink:
Apple juice, Tea.
Comments:
Food tasted good, especially the hot
breakfast, although it might not look that appetising. Roll was fresh.
Impressive for such a tiny plane. I very nearly successfully controlled
the Yoghurt from exploding on me, but I was left with a small mark on
my shirt. Service was excellent too: one of the FA's knew every one of
the thrity passengers name without a cheat sheet. As she welcomed each
person aboard and glanced their boarding cards, she must have registered
something about them which allowed her to remember their name. It's a
skill I'm envious of! Flight was full on this occasion. On a half-empty
flight, don't try moving seats, though. They allocate seats on the plane
from the back, and push you all down to the far end of the plane no matter
how empty it's going to be. Something to do with the aircraft trim apparently.
If you try moving seats with or without permission and you will wish you
never did.... FA's get particularly outraged about this. I've seen many
passengers patronised by a ScotAir FA like a pre-school child for even
thinking about asking to move. I've been at the sharp end myself - it
doesn't make your day.
London Heathrow (LHR) to Gothenburg (GOT), 2004-08-31
Date added:
2009-11-18
Flight duration:
1h 15m
Flight class:
business
Aircraft:
MD-81
or leisure trip:
Meal:
Breakfast
Cold breakfast with cheese & ham, and fruit. Yoghurt. Roll and butter.
Drink:
Water, Coffee.
Comments:
Food OK if a little substandard for BC. Lounge was OK
with limited cold food selection. Once boarded, all pax had to fill in
a piece of paper with their names as they had one too many passengers.
Missed slot to LHR, 60 mins late landing. Missed my connnection...
London Heathrow (LHR) to Gothenburg (GOT), 2004-08-31
Date added:
2009-11-18
Flight duration:
1h 15m
Flight class:
business
Aircraft:
MD-81
or leisure trip:
Meal:
Dinner
Steak on salad with balsamic vinegar, cheese,chocolate cake, chocolates.
Drink:
Water, generous selection of wines and spirits.
Comments:
Good on board - just two of us were in BC. FAs very generous.
Fooditself was so-so, with no choice, steak was tough, but goats cheese
was yummy. Trying to get into the SAS business lounge at Heathrow T3 was
another story - no obvious way to get in behind security cordon between
incoming and outgoing pax, check-in staff's directions were not accurate
enough, and LHR security very unhelpful indeed.
Breakfast
Fruit plate
Omelette with Gruyere Cheese with spinach, red peppers, grilled veal sausage
and rosti potatoes
Toast
Drink:
Dom Perignon 1995 Champagne
Water
Tea
Comments:
Fruit was still fresh and perfectly
presented. Omelette was perfect too.
Toast was too dry - they haven't figured out the toaster on board yet.
Tea was fantastic. The best breakfast I've ever had at 35,000 feet.
Dinner (yet again)
Figs with arabic coffee
Caviar with traditional accompaniments
Arabic Mezze
Lamb Rack
Drink:
Arabic Coffee
Water
Dom Perignon 1995 Champagne
Chassagne Montrachet 2001 Burgundy white
Domaine de Chevalier 1994 Bordeaux red
Tea
Comments:
Arabic coffee and figs again
good. Caviar is always welcome, although the wheat blinis are not to my
taste so I used the generous selection of bread in the basket instead.
Arabic Mezze was pretty good - quite spicy and gutsy. Lamb rack was presented
well and tested OK but yet again was over done. I think that I must have
demolished most of the world's stocks of the Dom Perignon 1995 vintage
over the past couple of weeks.
Arabic Coffee
Water
Dom Perignon 1995 Champagne
Chassagne Montrachet 2001 Burgundy white
Geoff Merrill Reserve Chardonnay 1998 white
Domaine de Chevalier 1994 Bordeaux red
Rutherford Ranch Napa Valley
Comments:
Arabic coffee and figs again highly
recommended. Smoked Salmon and Crab Parcel was wonderful. Sadly they were
out of Lobster Thermidor, so I went for the Asian Braised Beef Rib which
was OK. Cheese plate was very generous in selection and portion size.
Fruit plate was excellent. I tried all six wines that were available during
this meal and all were of excellent quality, although the Champagne was
flat again so they opened a new bottle for me. Only thing lacking on the
booze front is the fairly closed wine selection: two oaked chardonnays
and two full on reds.
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