Seat and Meal Choices

I've been playing with my seating details on the Delta website; I'm fairly certain I want aisle seats most of the time, but I think last time I moved I gave myself a window seat at least once, while going over the continent during the day. Figure I'll be awake and there will be something to see at that point, but for the really long legs I'll want to be able to get up frequently without disturbing any strangers.

I've also been thinking about changing my meal plan. I would very much like to shift my diet to a more vegetarian one. I don't know that I can or want to take milk and eggs out of my food; despite the excellent reasons regarding animal cruelty for not eating milk and cheese and eggs, it still remains that they are an important part of my nutrition, not to mention delicious.

Also, I don't know that just because an airline offers alternative meal options means they take care of those people who choose said options. I have read some nasty stories of people choosing "vegetarian" and receiving token steamed vegetables and bland squash sandwhiches. Flight food is supposed to be crap anyway; why limit your options even further?

So I've selected the regular meal option for my flight out (Delta only offers meals on international flights) and I'll investigate the alternative at that time. (It may be that I can even request a vegetarian meal while I'm actually on the plane.) And for the flight back, which I can still change, I've selected the "Asian-Vegetarian" option, which is hopefully the one that contains dairy etc. (Verses the more Vegan variety.)


I'm also looking at my options for snacks on the flight. It looks like free peanuts and cookies are still available (from the "Snack Basket" for Economy class; other options available to First Class flyers, but pfft, who needs a Quaker granola bar anyway?) These are my complimentary options.

Then there's this EATS menu. There are a couple of nice-ish options, but most of them cost $8 (exception: a plain bagel with cream cheese is all of $3).

There's also a decent list of complimentary beverages, which still include Canada Dry Ginger Ale "available on select flights". This makes me happy, because I first discovered and fell in love with ginger ale on an international flight when I was very very young. Good memory!

Thank God! Free peanuts and ginger ale. That's all I really need.

ALSO! I just noticed that the coffee served on the flight is provided by - get this... - JavaCity! (lol To explain, I used to work for JavaCity until very recently when I got my better-paying internship. Of course because of having worked there, I no longer have much tolerance for coffee in my system. Let that be a lesson to you; if you really love coffee, do NOT work in a coffeeshop!)