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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 #1380 on: December 24, 2017, 03:09:15 AM »
FWIW, DL serves kosher wine even for Y pax ex TLV

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1381 on: December 24, 2017, 04:16:37 AM »
The Mashgiach didn't comment that it was Kosher? 
He did, explained the white sticker on the cakes - gave me a little Misheberach - totally bizare
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1382 on: December 24, 2017, 01:11:59 PM »
FWIW, DL serves kosher wine even for Y pax ex TLV
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1383 on: December 24, 2017, 02:05:17 PM »
FWIW, DL serves kosher wine even for Y pax ex TLV
Which wine? is this a new thing?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1385 on: December 24, 2017, 04:50:07 PM »
Which wine? is this a new thing?
They had a red and a white

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1386 on: December 31, 2017, 09:00:43 PM »
UA TLV-SFO
Class: Y!

GS Manager and Hamasbia Mashgiach came to my seat to call me to the J Galley.
"Hi is it your Birthday" (someone must have told them, Wife claims no responsibility)
"We have these 2 platters of fruit and cakes for you to enjoy, feel free to let us know when you want them"
No Kosher tape or anything, guess that's why the Mashgiach came on board?
Didn't know they have an on-site mashgiach.
Where does he usually work? On the planes? In the airport?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1387 on: January 01, 2018, 01:46:41 AM »
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1388 on: January 01, 2018, 01:48:06 AM »
BA First LHR-TLV main

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1389 on: January 01, 2018, 08:22:32 AM »
Hermolis manage to impress me almost every time.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1390 on: January 01, 2018, 08:34:31 AM »
mashgiach.
In the airport?

At the Hamasbia Kitchen

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1391 on: January 01, 2018, 09:18:48 AM »
At the Hamasbia Kitchen
Where's that? How did you get there?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1392 on: January 01, 2018, 09:21:36 AM »
FWIW, DL serves kosher wine even for Y pax ex TLV
AC also does.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1393 on: January 01, 2018, 09:35:30 AM »
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Wow.
How does the plating work though?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1394 on: January 01, 2018, 11:14:59 AM »
Wow.
How does the plating work though?
They heat it up double wrapped with the plate, no?
You can say what you think when you think what you say.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1395 on: January 01, 2018, 11:16:39 AM »
Is that true?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1396 on: January 01, 2018, 11:32:16 AM »
I saw it on other european airlines where the whole plate was double wrapped.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1397 on: January 01, 2018, 11:33:50 AM »
They heat it up double wrapped with the plate, no?
Didn't someone post above that after heating the wrapped package they plate it on included new plates? Presumably the plates are packaged separately
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1398 on: January 01, 2018, 11:35:15 AM »
I think the plate is separate and plating it in back with the food unsealed is halachickly problematic.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #1399 on: January 01, 2018, 11:41:21 AM »
I think the plate is separate and plating it in back with the food unsealed is halachickly problematic.
Someone uptread wrote about the process on BA F

They plate it in front of you (meaning breaking the seal in front of you)

They also give you the option to plate it yourself