My wife, stepson and I recently flew round-trip from Syracuse, NY to Bucharest, Romania on Delta Airlines and KLM and when I purchased our tickets, I asked for vegetarian meals for all of us. Our flights (and meals) went like this:
Syracuse, NY to JFK (New York City) on Delta Airlines - It was about a 45 minute flight and no meals were served.
JFK to Amsterdam on KLM - It was about a 7 hour flight and we were given a vegetarian meal of very spicy beans, rice and some kind of mashed lintel paste, along side of that we were given some fruit.
Amsterdam to Bucharest on KLM - The flight was about 3 hours (if I remember correctly) and everyone was given a turkey sandwich snack. I told our flight attendant that I had asked for vegetarian meals when I purchased our tickets and she replied that she was sorry but they did not serve vegetarian meals on short flights and we were given nothing as an alternative to eat.
The same meals were served on our return flights and when the flight attendant on our flight from Bucharest to Amsterdam (on KLM) tried to give us turkey sandwiches again, I repeated that I had ordered vegetarian meals for all of us, she then rounded up some packets of almonds, granola bars and other little snacks that did not contain meat for us to eat.
Have you had better experiences with other airlines? If so, who were they? Our experience with Delta and KLM wasn't life scaring, traumatizing or anything like that but we will be visiting Romania often in the future and I don't mind paying a little extra to companies that take such things into consideration. I seem to remember flying from Munich, Germany to Bucharest (a short flight) on Lufthansa Airlines and was given a vegetarian meal but it was a while ago and I could be mistaken.
Syracuse, NY to JFK (New York City) on Delta Airlines - It was about a 45 minute flight and no meals were served.
JFK to Amsterdam on KLM - It was about a 7 hour flight and we were given a vegetarian meal of very spicy beans, rice and some kind of mashed lintel paste, along side of that we were given some fruit.
Amsterdam to Bucharest on KLM - The flight was about 3 hours (if I remember correctly) and everyone was given a turkey sandwich snack. I told our flight attendant that I had asked for vegetarian meals when I purchased our tickets and she replied that she was sorry but they did not serve vegetarian meals on short flights and we were given nothing as an alternative to eat.
The same meals were served on our return flights and when the flight attendant on our flight from Bucharest to Amsterdam (on KLM) tried to give us turkey sandwiches again, I repeated that I had ordered vegetarian meals for all of us, she then rounded up some packets of almonds, granola bars and other little snacks that did not contain meat for us to eat.
Have you had better experiences with other airlines? If so, who were they? Our experience with Delta and KLM wasn't life scaring, traumatizing or anything like that but we will be visiting Romania often in the future and I don't mind paying a little extra to companies that take such things into consideration. I seem to remember flying from Munich, Germany to Bucharest (a short flight) on Lufthansa Airlines and was given a vegetarian meal but it was a while ago and I could be mistaken.
