First they delay the flight, then the tv is not working, but that's all bearable until the food time comes.
- Is this vegetarian?
- Yes. *smiles* It's chicken. *smiles*
- *shocked* I've ordered vegetarian!
- We've given it all out. You should have pre-order it. *smiles*
- But I did???!!!
- Well, I don't have you here.
- ??? What do you suggest then? Should I starve to death?
- Don't exaggerate, Madame, it's a 4-hours flight. You are not going to starve to death.


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They still serve meals on the airplanes? America has completely gotten rid of it, I think.

They fucked up but you acted like a prat. I guess you paid for it, though. And if you needed Halal they'd make sure it was right.

This made me laugh....

Hey, I had a 5 hour flight to Hawaii & didn't get a meal! Not that I would have eaten it, but still.

I love the 'Yes it's vegetarian, it's chicken' HAH! Cause chickens aren't animals or anything. Ding bat.

sammi - flights over 4 hours, and transatlantic or anything really over an ocean tend to offer a meal.

I always order vegan although last time my strict vegan had pasta with a creamy sauce I'm pretty sure had milk in it. I don't care really, I'm not vegan but it's usually the safest thing. I did get a meal with somebody else's name on it that had been crossed out and mine put beside it though. hmm.

Some people are just retarded though. Vegetarian means no meat. I can understand the lacto ovo or pescetarian issues but chicken? no food with a face.

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5 hours from L.A. to Hawaii & I got mixed nuts.

I get that with fish off my friends.

pal: "Oh I'll cook you a veggie meal, I'll get you a tuna steak"
me: Errrr tuna is not vegetarian friendly
pal: "I thought vegetarians ate fish"
me: Well are fish grown from seeds in the ground? They're animals and and if so called veggie's are eating fish then they're not veggie's are they?

weird. budget airline? The only flights I've been on lately have been transatlantic and if I hadn't had a meal on a 7-8 hour flight those hostesses would have had the smackdown.

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I don't remember the airline.......American maybe. But on crap Alaska airlines we got gross cookies given to us on a 2 hour flight from Orange County to Seattle.

I know, isn't that weird how fish became acceptable for some 'vegetarians' to eat?? My best friend(who does tons for animals rights/etc) calls herself a veggy yet she eats fish.

They've always been good at making sure I have my veggie meal. Sucks for you, though. I guess you could've had the dodgy refridgerated bread roll? I mean, whose crazy idea was it to keep bread in a fridge?

I'll have a little BA/BAA whinge too. BA were my favoured airline until my short trip to Athens at the end of last month. I suppose ye don't get a choice with BAA since they sort of own the airports here.

My flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow was delayed by an hour. Given that I had only an hour and ten minutes of a time window to connect to my next flight at Heathrow, this presented a problem.

I got to Heathrow and ran like a motherfucker, only stopping to buy cigarettes and suck the life out of one before firing towards that gate. The next flight, thankfully, was also delayed by an hour. However, much of this hour was spent on the tarmac waiting to get on the runway, rather than at the gate. I made it to the flight. My suitcase, however, did not.

I get to Athens and wait, becoming increasingly dejected as I watch all the luggage slink past me on the conveyor belt, none of them mine. Eventually, I head off to the lost luggage desk, where they've already had advance word from Heathrow that my luggage has been 'seen'. Nice, at least someone got a look at it. Would've been cool if that was me. I'm told that it will be on the flight to Athens the next morning. Can I come to the airport to pick it up, since my bf's place (where I was staying) is out in the back of beyonds? No, it has to be delivered and we'll be called at 3pm by the delivery drivers. We have to meet them in town. No other option. Super.

The next day, 3pm comes and goes without a peep. My bf calls. It's not on the morning flight. Oh but it SHALL be on the next flight, the afternoon flight, the flight that makes it even less convenient for me to obtain my luggage. I gots a Pearl Jam concert to be at, twats. Fuck it, we'll be there to get it, when we're bloody ready.

So we go to see Pearl Jam, drink some booze, and then I go to the airport, all beer-breathed, to pick up my day-late luggage. The end.

Or not.

We prepare to check in for our flight back to Heathrow. The flight is already confirmed to be over an hour late. Brilliant. I choose not to check in my hair-breadth-from-must-check-in-sized case and we're checked into a later connecting flight too. Handy.

Gets to Heathrow. Observes the signs indicating that passengers are not allowed to carry liquids in hand luggage when travelling to the States. That's fine, I'm domestic. Well it was fine, at least, until the security guys decide that my foundation is a deadly weapon and, oh, can we see a receipt for that bottle of Ouzo, even though it is still sealed and corked. Thankfully, we managed to dig out the receipt but the foundation was gone. I've had to face my days pluke-faced since.

And that's my tale, somewhat over-dramatised. I'm not impressed with BA, and BAA can suck a frigging fat one for not having the capability to differentiate between domestic and US-bound passengers, even while they have boarding card in hand.

Aye.

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Il se met à pleuvoir. L'homme n'ouvre pas son parapluie et l'autre lui demande pourquoi.
- Parce que ça ne servirait à rien, lui répond son ami. Il est plein de trous.
- Alors, pourquoi l'as-tu pris?
- Parce que je ne pensais pas qu'il pleuvrait.

pescetarians do fish. lacto ovo do dairy.

I'm a lapsed veggie, I don't eat anything four legged but if it swims or flies I'm ok with it.

My husbands snowboard got lost once on a transatlantic flight but it was delivered to my door within 48 hours of landing.

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Of course I paid for it!! And I preordered it as well. I firmly believe that I am entiteled to what I've paid for.
If there was no food on the flight, I'd taken something with me.

But actually I did behave like a prat. (I tend to, when I'm being kept hungry.) After that initial dialog I really lost my temper and made a huge scandal, got all the cabin crew around me and passengers staring at me in disbelief.

Funny thing is that eventually it worked and they found one vegetarian meal left. But only after the huge scandal.

I don't think I'll be flying BA again. In my practice they can never get anything right.

Oh, so there's varying degrees of this? I didn't know.

I had no idea. I thought it was just veg & vegan.

I'm a vegger as much as I can be....I'll have turkey at Thanksgiving, cause lets face it, it's going to be bought by whoever's hosting TG & might as well have a go at that turkey!
I'll have chicken every now & then. I do eat dairy though, cause I pretty much live off of it. But the brand of dairy I eat, I know they're kind to their cows & don't give them hormones, etc. I used to work there. So I stick to their stuff.
And every now and then, I just gotta have a cheese burger w/ avocado....cause, well, it's so fucking good.

Most days, I don't eat animals though. I break down every now and then.
We all have our short comings.

I can't imagine ever eating beef again in my life. It completely freaks me out. Beef and Lamb just make me cringe.

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pastas are made out of eggs which are not vegan friendly. unless it's rly fancy pasta which i highly doubt airlines are with their meals to be honest.

There's wheat pasta......I also think there is pasta made from vegtables too.

which idk. doesn't strike me as airline food. but why don't you tell us how many times you've travelled in your life, being rich and all.