Delta Expands Its Meal Pre-Selection Option To Most Domestic Mainline Flights

a table full of different foods

TravelingForMiles.com may receive commission from card issuers. Some or all of the card offers that appear on TravelingForMiles.com are from advertisers and may impact how and where card products appear on the site. TravelingForMiles.com does not include all card companies or all available card offers.

Some links to products and travel providers on this website will earn Traveling For Miles a commission which helps contribute to the running of the site – I’m very grateful to anyone who uses these links but their use is entirely optional. The compensation does not impact how and where products appear on this site and does not impact reviews that are published. For more details please see the advertising disclosure found at the bottom of every page.


Delta first introduced pre-select meals back in March 2018 on in select Delta One cabins departing from Atlanta and New York JFK. In December last year the airline announced that it was expanding the pre-select option globally as well as offering it on long-haul domestic routes where Delta One is offered.

Now Delta is going a step further.

As of this week passengers traveling in the front cabin on the majority of Delta’s domestic routes will have the option to pre-select their meals too.

a table with plates of food and a glass of wine
Image courtesy of Delta

Per Delta:

[P]re-select will expand to include mainline First Class flights where meals are offered — including domestic First Class routes and select flights between the U.S. and Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America — bringing the number of daily flights eligible for pre-select from 200 to more than 1,000.

Flyers booked into a Delta First Class cabin on a route where a meal is served will receive an email from Delta approximately 3 days prior to departure requesting them to select their first choice meal – the only thing needed to participate is a valid email address.

Note: Pre-select is not currently available on Delta Connection flights

Follow this link to see what meals Delta is currently offering onboard

Featured image courtesy of Delta