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Roundup Of Routes Where Kosher Meals Are Served By North American Airlines - http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/89484

Here's a google docs where people could input their inflight kashrus experience :
http://kshr.us/KosherMeals 


AA KSML availability:

-Most domestic routes where meals are served (in J or F)
-Flights to Europe or Asia in all classes.
-Flights to Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo, Brazil in all classes.
-Flights to Asuncion, Paraguay in all classes.
-Flights to Buenos Aires, Argentina in all classes.
-Flights to Santiago, Chile in all classes.
-Flights to Montevideo, Uruguay in all classes.

UA KSML availability:

-EWR-SFO in J
-EWR-LAX in J
-BOS-SFO in J
-Flights between the US mainland or Guam and Hawaii in J or F.
-Flights to Europe or Asia in all classes.
-Flights to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru in all classes.

Please Include:
Airline:
Class:
Route:
Caterer:
Hechsher:
Flight date:
Meal in pics:
Stogel-Hermolis Scale Score (1-10):

Stogel-Hermolis Scale:
1. Inedible, wouldn't feed to a dog. (Stogel [long-life])
2. Disgusting, would only eat if starving
3. Barely edible, would only eat if very hungry
4. Below average, but would eat if hungry (Stogel [fresh-frozen])
5. Average/typical KSML, would eat if hungry (Borenstein?)
6. Above average KSML (Borenstein?)
7. A good KSML, might even eat if not hungry.
8. A very good KSML
9. An excellent KSML, could pass for something served in a decent restaurant.
10. Top of the line KSML, would be happy eating this at a decent restaurant. (Hermolis)


AirlineRouteClassMeal
BALHR-JFKJDinner
BALHR-PRGJBreakfast
CM           TGU-PTY          J              Lunch
CM           PTY-JK          J              Dinner
CO           EWR-TLV          BF              Dinner
COEWR-TLVBFBreakfast
COHNL-EWRBFDinner
COHNL-EWRBFBreakfast
COIAH-HNLBFLunch
COIAH-HNLBFSnack
LHFRA-VCEJSnack
LXORD-ZRHFDinner
LXZRH-TLVYDinner
SNBRU-VCEJBreakfast
SNTLV-BRUJDinner
SNTLV-BRUJBreakfast
TPJFK-LISYDin/Break
TPLIS-JFKYDinner



United Airlines
USA-Australia routes (economy): Koshair, O-U, Hamotzi, CS.
USA-Sydney  (First): Regal - meat and chicken meals.
Australia-USA routes (economy): Lewis Continental, K-A, Hamotzi, CY.
LH EWR-FRA Y Regal Chicken
LH MUC-EWR Y Sohar Hot meat meal and cold sandwich
LH FRA-VIE C Sohar Cold Meal (fish)
OS VIE TLV C VIE Local Co (hechser Rabbi Schwartz) Hot
US TLV PHL C Hamasbia
UA(CO) EWR-TLV Y Regal Beef meal (2010)
SA JNB-CPT-JNB Y Hot Meal from Joburg Beth Din
MN(BA) JNB-VFA Meal from Joburg Beth Din
SQ JFK-FRA Suites very poor Borenstein meal, labeled business class, chicken, no real dishes, very little food.
EK SYD-AKL  F    Lewis, no hot meal.
NZ AKL-LAX  Y    Gray's deli, fish meal.
TK CPT-IST  J/Y    Norries Caterers - CPT Beth Din - Milk Snack (Sandwich & Muffin CPT-JNB leg) Meat Dinner, Milk breakfast
« Last edited by zow on May 22, 2019, 02:37:01 PM »

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1280 on: July 27, 2017, 08:01:28 PM »
I thought only QF ex AUS serves real dishes and silverware.

Just had real dishes yesterday UA F
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1281 on: July 27, 2017, 08:09:03 PM »
AC ex YYZ also

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1282 on: July 27, 2017, 08:20:47 PM »
From the looks of it we should be seeing which don't. It will probably be the same for any airline that has a J KSML
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1283 on: July 27, 2017, 09:21:58 PM »
Dishes may be nice, but it's the food that really stands out here. Almost like some of the non-Jewish TRs.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1284 on: July 28, 2017, 01:32:25 AM »
You got to be kidding me.

That is for sure the best ksml ever served on a flight.

Hands down winner.
Just to clarify: The main courses were from three separate flights! My more recent three in fact (over the last 2-3 months). I never had three large main courses like that for one meal!

@mikebgDid you plate it yourself or did the FA do it?
Depends. If I am convinced they will do it properly, only with the Hermolis utensils, I let them do it. Otherwise I do it. In the pictures I posted, the steak and lamb chops were plated by the FA, the fish by me (that's why it looks a bit of a mess ...

Dishes may be nice, but it's the food that really stands out here. Almost like some of the non-Jewish TRs.
To be honest, and having read many BA-related postings (not just Trip reports) I would say that it is considerably better than what BA serves in F most times. Mostly the regulars warn not to choose the "BA nuked fillet steak ..."

On a related note, BA has excellent craft beer (Tribute) which is a great replacement for wine with the meal, and a Cointreau does very well instead of dessert wine.

Why would they need to toivel the airline's dishes?
Probably because the kosher caterer has to BUY the dishes from BA's supplier, which makes them theirs, so they need to be toiveled. If they were borrowed they wouldn't need it.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1285 on: July 28, 2017, 01:33:10 AM »

Seems like they rotate the menu. Attached is what I got. And it was as bad as it sounds.. Your menu looks a bit better..
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1286 on: July 28, 2017, 09:16:39 AM »
Probably because the kosher caterer has to BUY the dishes from BA's supplier, which makes them theirs, so they need to be toiveled. If they were borrowed they wouldn't need it.
Why would they need to buy it? Don't they end up in BA inventory?
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KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1287 on: July 28, 2017, 09:38:38 AM »
SQ F X-LHR also serves multi course fresh Hermolis.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1288 on: July 29, 2017, 05:26:27 PM »
Why would they need to buy it? Don't they end up in BA inventory?

Good point.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1289 on: July 29, 2017, 10:11:34 PM »
Flying UA J ex DUB, any idea what to expect?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1290 on: July 29, 2017, 11:14:03 PM »
SQ F X-LHR also serves multi course fresh Hermolis.
Almost everyone serves hermolis ex-lhr.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1291 on: July 30, 2017, 10:32:20 AM »
Depends. If I am convinced they will do it properly, only with the Hermolis utensils, I let them do it. Otherwise I do it. In the pictures I posted, the steak and lamb chops were plated by the FA, the fish by me (that's why it looks a bit of a mess ...
I assume they have to plate it infront of you, right? How do they pull that off on a tiny tray table?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1292 on: July 30, 2017, 12:36:53 PM »
I assume they have to plate it infront of you, right? How do they pull that off on a tiny tray table?
They plate it in the galley. Hermolis give them the whole kit needed for it.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1293 on: July 30, 2017, 12:38:43 PM »
Anyone with recent experience on CX F ex-JFK?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1294 on: July 30, 2017, 12:43:21 PM »
They plate it in the galley. Hermolis give them the whole kit needed for it.
So I guess you would need to go to the galley to watch them.
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1295 on: July 30, 2017, 01:02:41 PM »
Anyone have experience w Air Europa ex-MAD in J?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1296 on: July 31, 2017, 12:17:38 AM »
Seems like they rotate the menu. Attached is what I got. And it was as bad as it sounds.. Your menu looks a bit better..
Why is halva served so much.

You know we're Jewish we got that. We don't only eat Jewish foods.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1297 on: July 31, 2017, 12:22:19 AM »
This is a long shot but does anyone know what SK serves in J ex-IAD?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1298 on: July 31, 2017, 12:59:35 AM »
any other options in flatbush to buy travel meals besides pomegranate?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1299 on: July 31, 2017, 01:21:18 AM »
Seems like they rotate the menu. Attached is what I got. And it was as bad as it sounds.. Your menu looks a bit better..
I have to say that is an extremely unappetizing menu
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