An international first class meal that leaves me wanting more…

Hello Lucky. Yes, it is an international flight, but I'd say it's as international as a JFK-YYZ flight.

UA should abandon its internatioanl F product or invest to make it better so that people are willing to pay for it. One should not make excuses for UA that intra-Asia flights are part of the transpacfic itineraries, therefore it is ok to serve a lighter or below average meals in premium cabins. CX operates between SGN and HKG, SQ/CX operate between SIN and HKG, and OZ/NH/JL flyg between NRT and ICN. All these airlines treat these shourt routes as individual market and compete accordingly. While UA seem to do the minimum to keep its slots, rights, and its economy fares paying passengers.

Another way to look at this! UA's NRT-SEL would be an continuation of a US arrival. So most people on the flight would have eaten across the Pacific! Yes, UA is allowed to pick up local traffic in Japan, but its still a service thats on the tail end of a 12-14 hour flight (for most travellers) The meal looks fine to me. One does not expect the same level of service from UA, as they would from KE, JL, NH etc.

@Super80 why do you continue to read? C'mon over to MY blog and take on MY experience eating on the ground. Thank you.

@Super80 and MoiMoi: To amplify on what Speedy said for a moment, Lucky concentrates on certain aspects of travel. It doesn't matter why he does this because...wait for it...it's HIS BLOG. He can write about whatever he wants to. Let's put it another way - if you picked up the newspaper and George Will was writing about baseball, as he does from time to time, would you fire off an e-mail to him saying "but George, I want to read about your take on Obama's budget!!!" No, because it's his column and he can write about whatever he bloody well wants to. I'd like to see Lucky take a different slant sometimes, too, but there's a big difference between posting "hey, Lucky, how about telling us more about restaurants in the cities you visit?" and "Lucky, you suck, you always eat at the hotel, you never experience local restaurants,why are you such a snobby young fool..." The first is a suggestion, and suggestions can even go into the realm of "constructive criticism." The second is "mindless bitching." And another consideration: while Lucky writes about his experiences on many airlines, a lot of his remarks, especially the most critical ones, are about United. The feeling I get is that he criticizes UA the most because, well, he's a fan! In the same way that Cubs fans can dissect the team's problems year after hopeless year, or the way Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans lovingly bitched about their team in the days of Bucko Bruce*, Lucky wants UA to do better! First Class is an important money generator for a network airline, and let's be honest, that "first class meal" was a shoddy joke for a flight on a route where UA competes against airlines with much better products. @Lucky - if your software has the capability, have you considered going to moderated comments or requiring registration? * - "Bucko Bruce" was the nickname for the pirate on Tampa Bay's original helmets, and became shorthand for spectacular, breathtaking failure in Tampa. He's been banished to the dustbin of history, but makes the occasional appearance when the NFL does the "heritage uniform" thing, which is horribly played out and I'd like to see go away.