Just to play devils advocate for a second, but how to we implement meals for our crews, when the only aircraft that actually have full meals are Mint 321s? What about 190 guys? Or 320 guys that just do core flying? When you say meals, do you mean a cold sandwich that can be kept on ice, or are you looking for a hot meal like other companies provide their pilots? The 190 doesn't have an oven or cooling system to keep even a catered meal fresh or heated. Even if they gave us catered meals, where would we keep them? I mean I agree, I think we should be getting actual meals for flights over X hours. The only comparison I have is my regional days. Our 175s had first class seats which had first class meals on ice, but even those would get nasty sometimes if they weren't eaten in a certain amount of time.

I agree 100% about the first class thing. It's ridiculous that we as employees can't be seated in MINT. I've non-reved before and had to explain to my wife why there were 3 open mint seats in front of us, and why were weren't sitting in them, when back in my regional days we were able to cross the pond a couple times in Delta One for almost zero cost to us.