Long airline flight question

[suzannews]

Whats the longest flight you've taken (non stop) and what kind of a meal if any was served?

 

[Tinks]

The longest flight we've done is to Singapore. The total trip takes roughly 24 hours, and the longest leg is about 18 - 20 hours. We are fed a lot! Dinner, snacks, breakfast. Plus, on Sing Air, there are always snacks in the back lounge area of the plane that you can grab at any time.

I hate long flights. We're gearing up to do it again in less than 3 weeks

 

[FireDancer]

The second leg of my trip to Italy was from Phily to Frankfurt, I think around 8 hours. The flight was through the night, landing early the following morning and we got a sandwich with carrots and a dessert close to take off and then a small breakfast in the morning. I can't remember what it was, something like a bagel and jelly or cream cheese.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

My longest flight was from Philly to LA and then LA to Sydney. It's about 6 hours from Philly to LA, but 14 hours from LA to Sydney. I know we were served dinner and I think we also got breakfast. They also came around with juice and sandwiches in the 'middle of the night'. I had no idea what time it was so I can't even guess when in the flight they did that. In September, we are flying from Philly to Barcelona and that is about 8 hours and according to the reservation, we will be receiving dinner.

 

[suzannews]

Thanks...we are flying next month and the longest leg is almost 9 hours. For some reason, I am really concerned about food. Its not like I can say, hey pull over at the next exit and find a drive thru.

 

[Kimberle]

Go to seatguru.com (or through Trip Advisor). They will show you the configuration of the plane, what seats are "good", etc.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

JFK to Abu Dhabi, about 17 hours on Etihad. We did get several meals- a hot supper once we took off, breakfast*, sandwiches around lunchtime and then another hot meal and snacks also. As another poster said, there was also a basket of fruit, and snacks you could go down to the gallery and take whenever (ditto beverages as needed.) I will say I don't travel without a stash of granola bars, PB crackers and some little candies as well. (I don't worry about no food, I worry about gross food or them running out of anything but fish {which on an airline, I classify as gross food! }

*Breakfast was THE wierdest thing. They came around (of course you're all confused the hour because of the time zones, it was dark out too.) They offered us ice cream and a roll. We realized after that for breakfast, we had a Snickers ice cream bar and like a dinner roll. That was just downright wierd!

(The rest of the meals were "normal" and arugably the nicest/fanciest I've had on a plane. The Snickers was just funny!

Coming home, breakfast was a croissant and yogurt.

 

[joviroxx]

I fly to London from Florida often. I always take a sandwich or granola bars, or somekind of sustenance. They feed you, but I like to sleep and hate waking up for "food time". If Im awake, great, if not, I dont worry that Im going to be starving later.

 

[Tinks]

I just want to ditto the take-your-own-food idea. We always pack snacks like granola bars, goldfish crackers, m&ms....you never, never know if you'll need them. Delays happen. We were stuck in the Hong Kong airport for 8 hours due to mechanical issues. This was before our longer flight back to the States last year. Can you imagine adding 8 hours onto a 24 hour trip? Yeah, it wasn't cool.

If you have back up food, you won't go hungry.

 

[Disney Doll]

7 or 8 hours to Europe and they served some kind of chicken, I think. It wasn't bad, but then again, I'm not a real fussy eater.

 

[Uuaww]

I've done San Francisco to Sydney, Australia which was 15 I beleive. The longest for me though will be in about a month when I got from St. Croix to Atlanta (4) then Atlanta to Johannesburg, South Africa... a whopping 17 hours...

 

[Pakey]

My longest leg was 11 hours to Rome. Tomorrow I'll have a 14 hour leg to Beijing. I always pack snacks.

 

[Wonders10]

On my trip to Ireland last year, our longest leg was from Atlanta to Dublin - 5 or so hours I think it was. We received dinner and breakfast (which they called a snack - but it was an egg mcmuffin, juice, fruit and maybe something else). This was on Delta.

 

[TDC Nala]

Air New Zealand (LA to Auckland and back, 13-14 hours). Did what my friend did and got the veggie meal to avoid mystery meat. On Air New Zealand there is no extra charge for wine and they do refills...

 

[supercarrie]

The longest I've flown was from LA to Frankfurt. They served two meals, dinner and breakfast.

I routinely fly from London-LA and it is always two meals plus lots of drink service and, depending on the airline, self-service snacks in the back galley.

I have found that long-haul flights are quite good in terms of keeping you fed and hydrated - it is the 4-5 hour domestic flights which are far worse.

 

[Deb in IA]

It has been a while, but the longest leg I ever took was from Chicago-O'Hare to Shanghai-Pu Dong, about 16 hours.

I think we had lunch, dinner, snack and breakfast. We were definitely not hungry.

And we had about 4 movies.

 

[kidshop]

I flew to Italy a few weeks ago. The longest leg was 9 or so hours there and 10 1/2 hours on the way back. I was on Lufthansa, and we were fed snack, dinner, breakfast on the overnight portion. I had no complaints on the food. The lights were off about 4 hours for 'sleeping' They also had drinks (oj soda, water) and pretzels available for the taking down in the area by the bathrooms.

On the way back it was daytime, and we got lunch, snack and dinner. They also walked around with trays of cocktails several times!

On the short legs in Europe you get fed too, like a sandwich. The funniest thing was going from Munich to Naples at 9:30 am, they served wine and people were drinking it LOL!

 

[wvjules]

My longest flight was from Chicago to Honolulu. I think it was 6 or so hours. We got snacks and a meal, IIRC.

Next week I will be flying to Copenhagen and that flight is 8 hours. We will have dinner and snacks on that one as well. I plan on being awake for dinner but sleeping the rest of the flight. We leave DC at 5:15pm and arrive in Denmark at 7:15am and have a full day scheduled so I will definately need to sleep on the plane.

 

[2girlsmom]

To those who said about bringing granola bars/fruit etc, how are you doing that? US federal aviation law prohibits you from bringing any food items in your carryon bags that isn't purchased after the checkpoint.

 

[JohnsPrincess]

My longest was Chicago-Kuwait/Kuwait-Chicago. It was a Lonnnnggg flight. And they fed us a lot, but I don't remember what.