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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
A senior cabin crew member here.
There's nothing to worry about, we ought to wake passengers up during meal services, for both service and safety reasons:
Service: So no one misses the meal, then ...
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Will the cabin crew heat your own food up?
A cabin crewmember here.
The answer is: No, it is NOT allowed!
For various reasons, including:
Security: We do not know what are you heating, is it a heat-activated bomb? is it something that might ...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
They aren't!
You are typically going to be sitting down and getting very limited exercise. On a long haul flight of 12 hours, based on a 2000 kcal/day requirement, the average person will burn in and ...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
I think most people choose between airlines based on the cost of airfare, and not the quantity or even quality of in-flight meal service, therefore airlines are not incentivized to compete on those.
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
Always tell the cabin crew what you want. In a kind way.
When they are not busy, ask gently, "I am not a frequent flier, and this is new to me; could I please be woken for the dinner service?"
Done....
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
There are meals for everyone on board. Not everyone eats even and falling asleep in an airplane is a rather difficult thing to do, so when staff passes to distribute meals, they will simply move along....
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Will the cabin crew heat your own food up?
They are unable to do so.
Most aircraft don't even have microwave ovens.
Not least, because of potential effects on avionics and sensors, not to mention power surge issues.
What they use for hot meal ...
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Can I travel to UK as a cabin crew after being refused entry to Ireland?
Yes you can, says the cabin crewmember who was "removed" from the UK back in 1998 due to attendance issues (and other stuff), and then got back to the UK in 2004 or 2005 as a cabin crew with no issues....
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Will the cabin crew heat your own food up?
Cold food, such as a salad or cold sandwich, is likely to be easiest to bring on a plane. Reheating something, e.g. a burger, is very unlikely.
However, there is one way you can got hot food without ...
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Will the cabin crew heat your own food up?
British Airways will heat up milk for babies for you. You can certainly ask, but considering airlines are even reluctant to heat up the food they're serving to you, it would be a hard sell to ask them ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
Often, at the start of the flight, the crew will announce the times at which they'll be serving meals or you may find this info on a menu (if they hand one out) or in the inflight magazine (e.g. ...
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Can I call the flight attendant "Sir/Ma'am" to get his/her attention?
What you said was fine. You did nothing wrong and were polite and respectful (and formal).
It would also be fine to say "excuse me" or simply signal visually for the crewmember's attention as they ...
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Can I call the flight attendant "Sir/Ma'am" to get his/her attention?
YES. In current English, it is perfectly acceptable to address the crew with Sir or Ma'am.
If you took chance to remember the crewman's name, you can use that as well. Note that some crew have ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
When I was younger airlines had tags on the seats where it indicated if you wanted to be woken for food. But that's now not the case. You could inform the flight attendant when you board that you want ...
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Can I call the flight attendant "Sir/Ma'am" to get his/her attention?
That is extremely old mannerism. It is 2017. You were right to call her "ma'am", "miss", etc. And she could have called you the same. There is no difference, it is simply a polite way of addressing ...
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Can I travel to UK as a cabin crew after being refused entry to Ireland?
Most likely the reason they were concerned with your attendance was concern that you were seeking illegal employment. It is a very common scam for foreigners to enroll in college merely as a pretense ...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
In addition to the good answers do keep in mind your ticket class!
First and business class food is in quality good to outstanding, depending on the airline.
In terms of quantity, in higher classes ...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
I work for an airline, and let me share another perspective.
It is often said that airlines are "greedy" people. Well, we are not more greedy than any other business, so we are just average people ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
I often fall asleep on airplanes, but most of the time the attendant or the passenger besides me will wake me up when food is served. Sometimes I'll wake up for the food, but other times I'll tell the ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
I was recently on a long (14+ hours) flight and subsequently a short (3 hours) connecting flight. There was no announcement for meal times but they woke up passengers for all major meals (dinner and ...
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Is tipping a flight attendant acceptable?
I have flown many dozens of times, I'm guessing 75 percent domestic, 25 percent international. I've tipped maybe 8 to 12 times, so not "usually". OTOH, I tip when I see a FA working hard and enjoying ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
Pretty good answers by others already. But I like to stress one possibility that you could not get your food later.
Some passengers ask a flight attendant to serve more meal
I almost always ask a ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
I fly long haul quite often with a variety of airlines. From my personal experience, fight crew will always wake passengers for meals. The only notable exception in my experience was Emirates Airways, ...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
Since the OP has a strong opinion on this matter and has been seen debating that the suggestions given already are wrong, here is exactly what the OP doesnt want to hear.
Economies of Scale.
That’...
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Why are airline meal portions so small?
I'm not technically a frequent flyer but I've flown quite a bit (more than 100 long haul flights, 8+ hours, say).
In my experience, people very rarely finish all their food. So my anecdotal ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
You can miss a meal. I usually sleep on long flights, and the flight attendants don't usually wake me for meals.
If you are worried that they might skip you because you are asleep, talk to the ...
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Can I call the flight attendant "Sir/Ma'am" to get his/her attention?
It is quite old fashioned and overly formal I guess. It would be fine to say "Excuse me" while they pass by you.
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How do I make sure I'm not awakened during in-flight food service?
You could inform the air hostess in advance that you would not like to be disturbed for the food. They note down your seat number and whosoever hostess would be serving your aisle, would know not to ...
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Can I accidentally miss the in-flight food?
I flew a lot on many different airlines, and as a rule I never eat in a plane (yes even on 15 hour flights). Thus it was the opposite problem, but I can still answer based on experience :)
In my ...
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