That is of completely no consequence (a minimum of to me), although curiosity is getting the perfect of me…
American’s continental breakfast quirk
I fly American quite a bit domestically, provided that I dwell in Miami, and the airline dominates the airport. I do know American’s firstclass meal service all too nicely, as there actually isn’t a lot selection. There’s the quick rib, the grains bowl, the golden hen, blah, blah, blah.
Anyway, I simply returned from Salt Lake Metropolis to Miami in American firstclass. That is fairly an extended home flight, at 2,088 miles — it departs at 7:59AM and arrives at 2:42PM, and it’s blocked at 4hr43min. Previous to the flight I went on-line to pre-order my meal (as American usually permits inside 30 days of departure), however that wasn’t an possibility for this specific flight.
I discovered that to be unusual, since in my expertise that’s attainable on all meal flights, and American serves meals on all mealtime flights of over 900 miles. So I went to take a look at the flight description, and observed that the flight was listed as serving continental breakfast in firstclass, somewhat than the standard full breakfast.
I used to be curious if this was a glitch. Effectively, it wasn’t. As soon as onboard, there was no alternative of breakfast, with the “continental breakfast” consisting of an oatmeal container, some grapes, cheese, and crackers, a banana, and a lemon berry chia loaf slice.
Does anybody know the logic for this?
As I mentioned firstly of the submit, I’m purely asking about this out of curiosity, as I don’t fly American firstclass for the meals. When there’s a alternative, I usually choose the extra “continental” possibility anyway, as I keep away from American’s egg dishes, that are usually not nice.
However in all my years of flying American, I believe that is the primary time I’ve ever had a flight the place the one meal was continental breakfast. Does anybody know why that’s?
My finest principle is that it has one thing to do with outstation catering at Salt Lake Metropolis Airport. The airplane sits in a single day in Salt Lake Metropolis, and the way in which the meal is ready suggests to me that this was all catered in Miami the day earlier than, and American merely doesn’t need to pay to cater the plane in Salt Lake Metropolis. In any case, the whole lot was in containers, and didn’t require refrigeration.
However what I’m interested by is why American appears to particularly do that in Salt Lake Metropolis? There are many different outstations the place the airline serves a full breakfast, although planes sit in a single day. Seattle to Dallas? Breakfast. Tampa to Chicago? Breakfast. Austin to Chicago? Breakfast. Newark to Phoenix? Breakfast. San Antonio to Charlotte? Breakfast. I believe y’all get the purpose. 😉
The one different context through which I’ve seen continental breakfast in a premium cabin on American is on choose lengthy haul flights, the place it’s served as a pre-landing meal (like Honolulu to Dallas).
So I’m curious. Does Salt Lake Metropolis simply have the best catering prices within the nation for American? Is Delta sabotaging American at its hub, in some way? Are there every other outstations with an analogous setup?
Backside line
I fly American on a regular basis, and I’ve solely ever seen the airline serve a full breakfast on flights of over 900 miles. For no matter purpose, American doesn’t serve its typical breakfast on flights out of Salt Lake Metropolis, however somewhat simply has a continental breakfast, with no choices.
Plainly it’s because American doesn’t need to cater the plane in Salt Lake Metropolis, although the airplane sits there in a single day. American planes are catered at outstations throughout the nation, so I’m curious what makes Salt Lake Metropolis particular.
Anybody need to take a stab at this?
