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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 #280 on: June 02, 2014, 11:18:52 AM »
How do you know if you can drink a coke on intl flights? Especially ones that don't depart or arrive at USA or TLV?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #281 on: June 02, 2014, 11:22:27 AM »
Ask a Rabbi?
How does the Rabbi know? ;)

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #282 on: June 02, 2014, 12:19:05 PM »
Ask a Rabbi?
Ok, just thought people might know which cities have Kosher coke.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #283 on: June 02, 2014, 12:30:40 PM »
Ok, just thought people might know which cities have Kosher coke.
Didn't know there was a non-kosher Coke.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #284 on: June 02, 2014, 12:49:29 PM »
How do you know if you can drink a coke on intl flights? Especially ones that don't depart or arrive at USA or TLV?
Who said you could???

We had this out already on the forums a long while ago

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #286 on: June 02, 2014, 01:01:45 PM »
Just called the OU and they said it either has to have a hechsher or if it doesn't, it must be bottled in USA, Canada, or Puerto Rico. I told him about the EU article that was quoted in the thread you just linked to and he said he has no idea what that's about, "Without the hechsher or from a bottling plant list above, it's not Kosher."

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #287 on: June 02, 2014, 02:37:17 PM »
Just called the OU and they said it either has to have a hechsher or if it doesn't, it must be bottled in USA, Canada, or Puerto Rico. I told him about the EU article that was quoted in the thread you just linked to and he said he has no idea what that's about, "Without the hechsher or from a bottling plant list above, it's not Kosher."
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #288 on: June 25, 2014, 04:24:25 PM »
Trying to order kosher wine for SQ Suites flight JFK-FRA.

Regular reps seem not to know how to get it done.

Any tips?
I remember when a coke was a nickel, and you could buy VRs in OD.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #289 on: June 30, 2014, 02:57:20 PM »
A few weeks ago we flew the CLT -> BCN route (USAir) booked with AA points. I had called in a kosher meal request to USAir, but on the plane the attendants had no record of it.

Two questions:
1. Who should I complain to (USAir or AA)?
2. Any expectation of getting anything as a result?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #290 on: June 30, 2014, 04:35:59 PM »
Airline: BA
Class: J
Route: LCY-JFK
Caterer: Hermolis
Hechsher: Kedassia
Meal in pics: Lunch

Appetiser and salad weren't really edible.

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #291 on: July 31, 2014, 03:43:11 PM »
What hechsher on UA BusFirst(I) EWR-CDG?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #292 on: August 01, 2014, 07:49:52 AM »
What hechsher on UA BusFirst(I) EWR-CDG?
Would say Regal

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #293 on: August 03, 2014, 09:58:08 PM »
Do got the Pom meals heated on board, do they have to be in the microwave packaging or the oven packaging?
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #294 on: August 05, 2014, 09:14:29 AM »
Do got the Pom meals heated on board, do they have to be in the microwave packaging or the oven packaging?
Keep in mind most planes don't have a microwave

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #295 on: August 05, 2014, 04:47:52 PM »
Is the food any good on UA BusFirst, EWR-CDG and LY Business TLV-YYZ, or should i bring my own?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #296 on: August 13, 2014, 12:15:00 PM »
is it true that flights on aa/us airlines between us and canada don't serve kosher meals? that's what they are telling me... bluff?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #297 on: August 13, 2014, 12:15:44 PM »
is it true that flights on aa/us airlines between us and canada don't serve kosher meals? that's what they are telling me... bluff?

They are correct. No kosher meals
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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #298 on: August 13, 2014, 01:28:07 PM »
TLV-JFK swiss J; Is "Kosher" enough or there is there "Strictly kosher" too ?

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Re: KSML (Kosher Airline Meals) Master Thread
« Reply #299 on: August 16, 2014, 06:24:34 PM »
Does anyone know what type of KSML is served on JetBlue Mint?