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Special Meals on United Redeyes

Matthew Klint Posted onOctober 21, 2010November 14, 2023 7 Comments

If you’ve got a redeye flight coming up in United First, do yourself a favor: avoid the sandwich and order yourself a special meal.

Since UA enhanced their meal service earlier this year, gone is the fruit and cheese plate on redeye flights and in is a hot sandwich, wrap, or pannini with a side salad, chips, and cookie.

The sandwich, though not horrible, leaves much to be desired so if my upgrade clears at least 24 hours before my flight, I order a special meal. Prior to the meal enhancements, all special meals would be cold (as was the fruit and cheese plate), but now that sandwiches have been rotated in, full hot special meals are served.

I usually return to Philadelphia Sunday night from Burbank via San Francisco, so the three pictures below are all from UA29, the 10:55p flight from SFO-PHL.

And the special meals don’t just look good: they actually taste good. It is my hope that special meals on domestic flights will not be a thing of the past once the merger is complete…

Standard Meal

a plate of food and snacks

Hindu Meal

a plate of food on a tray

Moslem Meal

a plate of food on a tray

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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7 Comments

  1. quasiconvexity Reply
    October 21, 2010 at 11:17 pm

    Is the Moslem meal vegetarian?

  2. Matthew Reply
    October 21, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    @quasiconvexity: No–there was some meat in mine. It is Halal though.

  3. Sean Reply
    October 22, 2010 at 2:53 am

    Any other good special meal choices you recommend? I’ve heard that the low fat meal can actually be better than the regular.

  4. Matthew Reply
    October 22, 2010 at 2:57 am

    @Sean: I’ve tired Low Fat and Low Sodium meals. They’re okay, I just like spicy food better.

    With the low fat meal and low sodium meal you would probably receive a warmed chicken breast with some red sauce on the side and either orzo or rice with a bowl of fruit or salad and some packaged cookies.

  5. Darren Reply
    October 22, 2010 at 3:28 pm

    Thanks for photos. Nice to see what they all are.

  6. Marcus Reply
    November 11, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    Wow, those look really good. I have an upcoming p.s. flight where my upgrade has cleared. Do you think it is worth getting the meal on that flight or will the p.s. food trump the special meal?

  7. Matthew Reply
    November 11, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    @Marcus: p.s. menus have not looked all that great to me this year, so I would order the special meal. You can still get hot nuts and a sundae if you want it.

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