American Airlines Replaced Its Turkey Wrap With a Turkey-Brie Sandwich — And the Brie Is a Slab [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • I was expecting a too-small-but-still-pretty-good turkey wrap to be the sandwich option for buy on board on my American Airlines New York JFK to Austin flight last week. Oddly, it was a turkey sandwich with a chunk of brie cheese in the middle, like off the cheese plate. It wasn’t bad, exactly. Just odd.

    Turns out it’s the “Turkey, brie and cranberry sandwich on brioche bread with side salad and salted caramel bar” for $14 and it replaces the turkey wrap. It was on offer again on my Sunday flight.

    That’s unfortunate because (1) the turkey wrap was actually pretty good (though the corn side was way too mayo-heavy) and (2) that chunk of brie should really be softer and spreadable or spread. Still, far better than the things that came before it (like the sweaty steak sandwich from this past summer.

  • I think I want a full marching band.

  • Passengers in Minneapolis have a lot more flight options than local demand would warrant, thanks to Delta’s hub, but they also pay a lot more for non-stops… just like American Airlines in Charlotte. It’s a tradeoff I’d take any day, but also one that people complain about. (HT: Paul H)

  • Winning.

    Espresso Martini / Irish Coffee hack was a success!
    byu/Blasiana_ inunitedairlines

  • Magic.

  • Sapphire Reserve cardholders – ‘DoubleDash’ for some groceries when you order food to avoid the delivery fee on groceries while using your monthly credits?

    I understand the current meta is to try to find the overlap between grocery stores and stores allowing pick up instead of delivery to maximize the two $10 credit credits.

    However one thing I just realized today is that it’s actually way way easier to tack on a double dash to a food delivery order and use the credits that way since the five dollar delivery fee is waived without having to hit the much higher spend threshold for free delivery otherwise. Earlier today I ordered two bottle bottles of milk from target for about $10.80 as a double dash on top of my burrito order for lunch. The $10 credit isn’t immediately visible but if you go into the promo section during the double dash you can select it there. Including the added tip the total for the milk came out to around $4, which is still fine for me because now I don’t have to carry jugs of milk home and the fees are much more negligible.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. Thank you for spelling it correctly. It is and always will be ‘Turkey,’ not that nonsense that autocrat Erdogan keeps pushing… oh, wait, this is about sandwiches. Bah! Got me good, Gary!

  3. @1990 — Ha! Gotteem

    Oh no – brie is one of my favorite cheeses, wouldn’t want AA or any one else to ruin that for me.

    P.S. Here’s to hoping Gary has a trip to LGA planned this week!

  8. Gary,

    Methinks there’s a limit to food reviews. You reached it. Let’s face it, AA is not a starred restaurant. You got better than before. Leave it at that. Or bring your own sammich on board.

  9. @AlanZ” American Airlines has Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey select their premium adult beverages. Furthermore, American Airlines offers a fine dining selection, including the turkey, brie, and cranberry sandwich on brioche bread, accompanied by a side salad and a salted caramel bar, as reviewed by Gary Leff. This culinary delight may help American Airlines become the first airline to be awarded a MICHELIN Star for its on-board ingredient quality, harmony of flavors, mastery of culinary techniques, where the chef’s personality shines through their cuisine, and consistency across the entire American Airlines on-board menu. In addition, the complimentary air-sickness bag located at every passenger seat functions as a doggy bag to help you share your leftovers with your significant other when you return home.

  10. @L737 — I can go on with this all day; Kenya tell me when to stop?

    @AlanZ — AA ain’t even a “Selected Restaurants”… much less a “Bib Gourmand.”

  11. @Ken A – Rofl, never change. Also, I’d volunteer to judge for whatever the Michellin Star equivalent for airline food is.

    @1990 — You can stop whenever you Bots-wanna! (This reminds me of the South Park clip where the news casters are making all these marine life puns and then one goes “un-bearable” to awkward silence – classic.)

  13. American Airlines has the network and the loyalty program to be a really good travel option. The also offer decent product. They have the worst flight attendants.

  15. @L737 — Oman, I’m down for Somoa these puns!

    (Reminds me of the back-and-forth on airport codes… Butler County Regional Airport to Funafuti International Airport.)

  18. Actual Brie cheese just out of a refrigerator level food service temp will not be spreadable. It will congealed and have a rind. A processed Brie “spread” would be a blah USDA “cheese food” which kind of tracks for the rest of the low grade trash food that American Airlines serves in their air gas station mini mart. So I guess you are right – it should be spreadable to fit the pattern. No thank you to cheese foods. I do agree that steak sandwich was soggy sweaty mess yuck. Even a free one as EXP was a no for me. I try to not eat AA in flight BOB meals. Its not worth it unless I’m in a bind.

  19. @BallardFlyer — I agree. You said, “I try to not eat AA in flight BOB meals. Its not worth it unless I’m in a bind.” Did you know, consuming processed Brie cheese spread can bind you up with constipation and hard bowel movements that are difficult to pass and, sometimes, may cause pain? When the executives in the American Airlines C-Suites snack on processed Brie cheese spread mixed with an emulsifying agent like a calcium chelator and emulsifying salts like phosphates, this might explain why some passengers report that the executives in the American Airlines C-Suites appear to be constipated.

  20. @Ken A — Recently flew AF and enjoyed the brie. Let me attest, there is truth behind your assertion about those cheeses… leading… to… uh… blockage (and then lack thereof…)

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