Re: breakfast card. Yes on all a330 J flights <10 hours I feel very rushed for the breakfast card. When it doesn’t make any sense because they still need to do the first meal service before it even matters but they want it usually before take off and at the very latest immediately after. The longer flights >10 hours they are “slightly” more relaxed about it by that I mean the first attempt at asking for it is usually immediately after take off and then a follow up 20 minutes later.
Keeping it relevant to BKK J likewise while the timing might be the same (want it immediately upon sitting) across most flights the attitude I’ve received when asking for more time was not.
Another example of a surly flight attendant on this route I flew Syd > bkk with a +1 it was their first time ever in J for any flight. Before take off I had an issue with my sash seatbelt the top part was stuck. I was waiting for a FA to come by so I could ask for help. The FA comes past and says “would you like to put your seatbelt on” in a very sarcastic / condescending tone. It doesn’t translate well in text here but it wasn’t friendly at all/ offering any help. I replied asking for help because it was stuck and the FA gave me a look as if I was incompetent and told me to just pull it down. After showing it was stuck they finally offered to help and actually took them a few minutes to make it work.
Now at the meal service time, I was in row 1 I saw the cart pull up for the meal service and I don’t like dressing on the “salad”. I wanted to make sure I got in before they poured it because they do it so quickly, I asked when they do my salad to have no dressing. The FA snapped back at me “I’m not doing yours”. My +1 laughed that I got snapped at but also was like woah what was that how rude.
Finally by the time the meal service was over we were at least 3 hours into the flight. My +1 made a joke and said they wish they flew economy so they would have had more time to sleep. After the flight my +1 said the seat was good but what the hell was the service about, they said they were expecting much better from J.
I still don’t understand the staff on this route. They definitely appear Australian based so its not a crew based somewhere else issue. My only reasoning is maybe they put the more experienced crew on the flagship routes ie SIN, LAX, HND and the less experienced/ poorer rated staff get bkk. Also I saw the aircraft appears to continue on to HKG/ come from (at least some times) do the FA’s go with it? Maybe they bet burnt out from the extra distance or extra work doing 2 routes. How is the service HKG?
