Coming Soon: American Eagle First Class Meal Pre-Orders

How do you actually pre-order? I went into a AA mainline reservation I have in July, and did not see the option. Does it show up at T-7 days or something?

How can you have a "hot smoked salmon cold plate"?

"You probably won’t enjoy actually eating what you pre-order." The charcuterie plate has been consistently good on mainline preorder. As in so good that I would order it at a restaurant.

@Jim. When I fly in First or Biz, under "My Trips"- I see an option below my flight info that says:
(Below is a Copy/Paste)

Reserve a meal
Request your first choice on your flight. You can reserve a meal beginning 30 days (and up to 24 hours) before your flight.

Review or change your order

@Alex the salmon is hot-smoked. It is then chilled.

@Lucky how long do the flights have to be to qualify?

@ Sel, D -- Meal time flights of 900 miles or longer qualify.

Lucky, not sure if you’ve heard...rumors are widespread in China today that HNA will be taken over by Air China in the next few days. HNA cannot survive the coronavirus.

@ Sam -- I don't eat pork so can't speak to that, but I've been consistently disappointed by the quality of America meals.

@ Jim -- The option becomes available 30 days out.

I was flying first from LGA-MIA last year and a week before my my flight I ordered the sweet potato gnocchi. Prior to take off the FA mentioned to me that my meal wasn't loaded on to the plane. Later that month I had the sweet potato gnocchi on AA out of Miami on a flight to South America and the dish was absolutely disgusting.

Ben, I think your statement of American being the only airline to allow meal pre-selection on regional airlines is incorrect. I was able to pre-select my dinner option on a Delta Connection flight from Boston to Kansas City I took on 2/17. And was able to pre-select my meal on a flight from Kansas City to Seattle, also on a Delta Connection flight.

Based on the menu its a great reason not to fly them if you can
UGH

@Lucky Ah that makes sense. I have not had anything but the charcuterie plate on AA in over a year, so I don't have anything to compare it to.

"Curried chicken salad on croissant"

This sounds awful...

I had the Almond butter and strawberry butter sandwich & charcuterie plate on yesterday’s RT DCA-MSY. They were both alright. Fruit good in AM cucumbers radish green bean salad tasty. But I had eaten before. Smash burger & . And some tasty crayfish corn chowder at the new MSY Lounge

Does pre-ordering preclude one from doing a Same Day Flight change as easily?

God can’t you just serve us a hot meal instead of this salad and cold cuts bs

Hey Ben not sure where AA gets off saying they are the first carrier to offer preorder on regional flights. If they mean "all regional flights" then yes but UA began preorders on mainline and express flights from LAX and IAD months ago, now DEN and ORD are in the mix...so there's plenty of regional preorder options on UA....

Had the charcuterie plate as a pre order JFK to LHR last week. Actually pretty good....