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Old Feb 27th, 2016, 11:31 AM
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Is it true SWISS air serves no food?

We are traveling from LA to Nairobi via Zurich - booked through United air miles. Last leg of the trip is Zurich to Nairobi on SWISS air, coach. This is an international flight of more than 7 hours. Our reservation doesn't even state food can be purchased on board???

Is there somewhere we can buy carryon food at the Zurich airport? We only have a two hour layover.
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Old Feb 27th, 2016, 12:17 PM
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Why do you think food isn't served? Because it isn't mentioned on you ticket? YES, they do serve meals. Did you look at the website?

https://www.swiss.com/ch/EN/fly/on-board/meals-on-board

https://www.swiss.com/ch/en/fly/on-b...-swiss-economy
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Old Feb 27th, 2016, 12:20 PM
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No it is not true. You should find your answers here:-

https://www.swiss.com/US/EN/fly/on-b...-swiss-economy
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Old Feb 27th, 2016, 01:28 PM
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Because our itinerary, booked with United Miles, shows "Meals for Purchase" and "Dinner" on the two UA flights but for the last flight on Swiss is says "Meals: None"..

Looks like United just doesn't know. Thanks, much. I check our reservations with Swiss directly.
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Old Feb 27th, 2016, 01:38 PM
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As Swiss serve light refreshments on a flight from the UK to Zurich I am positive you will get a meal on your flight.
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Old Feb 28th, 2016, 07:28 AM
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And by the way, Swissair went bankrupt long ago; the current airline is Swiss International, owned by Lufthansa.
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We live in Cleveland, so we most often fly on United, but everytime we can find a Swiss codeshare, we grab it. So we have flown often on Swiss, and the schedules, no doubt a product of United, always say Meals None for the legs flown on Swiss, but we have always been fed on those legs. I surmise it is just to much work for United to check with Swiss and post the information. Swiss also will not give advance seat assignments when they are flying a codeshare under United which I think is a pretty common practice.
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Old Mar 1st, 2016, 05:35 PM
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In addition to serving food they always offer a few Swiss chocolates.
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