I remember smoked salmon w/fresh bagel and cream cheese, with capers back in the day in first from COS-DFW. Yum, yum! Bring it on!
This is great! I appreciate the effort. I have noticed improvement in the first class meal quality over the last six months, and I haven’t had to endure a surly American flight attendant in almost a year. But it still irks me how some flight attendants continue to be so lazy about offering pre-taxi drinks in first class, while others work really hard to serve them. So arbitrary. They seem to be free to do or not do whatever they want. There are lots of flights where they could be serving pre-flight drinks, but they are just socializing and texting.
And it's odd because it also seems to have no indication of how the service will be in the air. Like I've had a PDB with a flight attendant who seemed indifferent (a bit lazy) in the air, and on the other hand, skipped PDBs where the FAs in the air turned out to be amazing.
Have they told their flight attendants about this? Last week on a PHL/DFW flight the flight attendants announced their “tray tables and seat backs” speech while we were still level at FL360 and were still 40 minutes from landing. When the flight attendant told me to lower my armrest I pointed out that the seatbelt sign wasn’t even on. Some previous flights weren’t that extreme but they still started their “remain in your seats” speech way earlier then needed. ORD/LGA is about 1:45 of flight time. You better plan to eat quickly.