120
Photo taken by: E. Zeltzer
Route: AMS-DTW, 18 Dec 2003
Meal: Lunch
Aircraft: A330
Class: Coach

119
Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: MSP-SEA, 8 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 3:30
Aircraft & class: 757-300 FC, Leisure trip
Meal type: Dinner
Smoked salmon with boiled potatoes, creme fraiche & fish roe; salad with dressing; chicken with bread dressing, green beans & squash(?), carrot cake with icing and walnut
Drink: Water & white wine (Pays d'Oc chardonnay)
Comments: Back to the uninspiring Minneapolis meals. NW adds an appetitiser (which was good because of the salmon and dollops of presumably imitaton caviar) for longer haul flights. Same identical dishes a few days earlier (see 3 Dec. MSP-BWI flight). Wine was quite good for NW but a litte bit too applely.
Rating: 8/10

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: EWR-MSP, 8 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 2:30
Aircraft & class: DC-9 FC, Leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Mixed Salad; chicken pasta salad; chocolate cake
Drink: White wine & water
Comments: Quite a nice meal for NW.Some variety in this salad. Olives, jalapeno, onions and tomatoes adding flavour to the salad (very good dressing). 4 colour pasta wit chicken was quite flavourful with the creamy cheese dressing. Chocolate cake was very chocolately and excellent.
Rating: 8.5/10

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroachess
Route: MSP-BWI, 3 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$1,100
Flight duration: 2:10
Aircraft & class: 757-200 FC, Business trip
Meal type: Dinner
Salad with dressing; chicken with bread stuffing, green beans and one other veg (squash?); carrot cake with icing and walnut
Drink: red wine and water
Comments: Another solid but uninspiring NW meal. Chicken and stuffing was actually quite good. Carrot cake a bit sweet but o.k

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroach
Route: SEA-MSP, 3 Dec 2003
Ticket price: C$667
Flight duration: 3:10
Aircraft & class: 757-300 FC, leisure trip
Meal type: Lunch
Belgian endives with curried crab filling, tomatoes and dip; chicken with mash potatoes, red peppers and green beans with gravy; salad with dressing; cheese cake
Drink: Some real cheap & awful California wine
Comments: Another solid but mostly uninspiring NW FC meal. The belgian endives with curried crab filling was actually quite good. Cheese cake was as usual too sweet. Wine tasted like home-made - too sweet and cloying. From one of the big California fermented grape juice refineries

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Photo taken by: Timothy Aanerud
Route: DFW - MSP, 14 Dec 2003, 1:15pm departure
Flight duration: 2:00 hours
Aircraft type & class: Airbus 319, domestic first
Meal type: Snack
(114) Multi colored pasta salad with chicken and dried cherries, dinner roll, green salad, flourless chocolate cake.
(115) Cold cut meat sandwich, and dill pickel slice, green salad, flourless chocolate cake

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Photo taken by: SR 103
Route: Detroit to Orlando, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Aircraft type & class: Boeing 757-300 First Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Light Snack
One Fischer's Almonds bag, and one Spinzels bag.
Drink: Pepsi
Comments: The flight attendant was very courteous and offered multiple times if we needed anything, but I think Northwest could have served a light meal.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 3 for the light snack, 10 for the courteous flight attendant

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Photo taken by: Phatfarmlines
Route: Waiting for the Detroit to Orlando flight, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Lounge Area: WorldClub lounge in Detroit
Meal type: Light Snack
Pepperidge Farm Milano and Brussels cookies, Walker's Pure Butter Shortbread, and Biscoff Biscuits
Drink: Coffee and Sahara Cranberry Juice
Comments: These items were part of a selection of items from the self-service bar in the central WorldClub lounge in Detroit. Some of the items, like Pepperidge Farms, are high-quality and not a cheap imitation. In between the coffee and the cranberry juice is a Citavo Hot Cocoa Mix. NW could have probably offered a slightly more variety of food items like AA and UA does at their lounges.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 4 for the variety of selections
This picture will soon be moved to the new Lounge Food area

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Photo taken by: Phatfarmlines
Route: Raleigh/Durham to Detroit, 15 Nov 2003
Ticket price: $124 plus companion upgrade
Aircraft type & class: Airbus A319 First Class
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Light Snack
Two Fischer's Almonds bags, and a wet napkin.
Drink: Sierra Mist via a sticky aluminum can and a wet cup.
Comments: The flight attendant spilled my drink! Okay, we are humans, and we are not perfect, but what upsetted me was the oblivious attitude held by the flight attendant when he did not offer to bring extra napkins to clean up the mess.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 0 for the flight attendant attitude, 3 for the light snack

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Photo taken by: YVR cockroach
Route: MEM-LGA, 28 Nov 2003
Ticket price: C$335 YVR-NYC r/t
Flight duration: 2 hours
Aircraft: A320 FC / Mileage run
Meal: Breakfast
Fruit plate (slice of orange, pineapple, cantaloupe, Chinese goosebery and a strawberry), swiss cheese omelette with potatoes and sausage, choice of bagel & creamcheese or coffee cake. Alternate meal choice was cereal with milk, yoghurt, bagel & creamcheese, and banana.
Drink: Orange juice
Comments: o.k. fare. Swiss cheese filling had almost no taste and was watery. Bit overcooked hot meal but o.k. otherwise. Bagel was a bit dry.
Rating: 6/10

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Photo taken by: Anthony Garcia, November 2003
Aircraft type & class: A320 Coach (Seat 26A)
Business or leisure trip: Leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Turkey sandwich with lettuce, tomato, and mustard, A Mrs Fields Cookie, Large crisp salad with balsamic vinigarette dressing
Drink: Pepsi with ice
Comments: This is a new buy-on-board meal available for $10.00
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6

108
Photo taken by: Thitipol H.
Route: Los Angeles (LAX) - Tokyo (NRT), 21 Oct 2003
Ticket Price: N/A
Flight Duration: 11 Hours
Aircraft Type & Class: B747-400, World Business Class
Business or Leisure Trip: Leisure
Meal Type: Dinner
Contents of the meal: Japanese "Shokado" Dinner Set
Drink: Japanese Sake "Eisen" by Northwest Airlines
Comments: The meal was a little bland and the soup wasn't hot enough.
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: YVR Cockroach
Route: HNL-SEA, 9 Jan 2003
Ticket price: USD 1,501 (SEA-BKK-SEA)
Flight duration: 5 hours
Aircraft, class: DC-10-30 First
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Dinner
Contents: 4 shrimps with lemon and seafood sauce
- salad bowl with packaged dressing
- bowl of beef, potatoes and vegetables
- bread roll
- followed by ice cream sundae
Comments: O.K. food. Not very good compared to int'l BC (WBC) in terms of food and presentation. Typical NW N. American food. Beef tasted like it was cooked in a Crockpot. Ice cream sundae was the best part, followed by the shrimp/prawns which were rather fresh.
Rating: 6.5/10

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Photo taken by: Thitipol Habanananda
Route: Los Angeles (LAX) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT), 21 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 11:00 hours
Aircraft Type & Class: 747-400, World Business Class
Meal Type: Dinner - Japanese Dinner Set "Shokado"
Comments: Everything was o.k. Nothing special, except that the clear soup was warm not hot (the meal itself was cold).
Rating 1-10 (Worst-Best): 6.5

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Photo taken by: Eugene / AnimationLibrary.com
Route: MSP - SJC, 25 Oct 2003
Ticket price:
Flight duration: 3 hrs 30 min
Aircraft type & class: A320 First
Business or leisure trip: leisure
Meal type: Lunch
Contents of the meal: Appetizer: Garden Salad, Jumbo Shrimp. 2nd course: Grilled Chicken with vegetables and potatoes. Dessert: cheesecake . Roll
Drink: water, Pepsi
Comments: The salad was nice, due to great Rasberry dressing. The chicken however was dry and not very good. Cheesecake was as usual, but I am not a big fan of cheesecakes. The other main course choice was pasta. Note the metal knife in the picture!
Rating 1-10 (worst-best): 7

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Route: Chicago (ORD) - Detroit (DTW), 12 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 48 Min.
Aircraft Type & Class: DC-9-30, First Class
Meal Type Drinks
Contents: Bloody Mary & Nuts
Comments: Once again no Northwest Ground Service: an inconsistency seen often on Northwest Domestic service!

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Photo taken by: J. Zeltzer
Route: Detroit (DTW) Chicago (ORD), 11 Oct 2003
Flight Duration: 45 Min.
Aircraft Type & Class: DC-9-30, First Class
Meal Type Drinks
Contents: Coffee & Nuts
Comments: At least the crew did a ground service in Detroit.