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The giant chocolate - this is now a common thing for the holiday season? This was loaded to the serving cart on my recent CBR-MEL. But it was never given to pax. Only one pax in 1F received it because he didn’t want to partake in the meal service … I wish they had given it to pax on the service I was on … the chocolate looked niceBreakfast on today's QF840 SYD-DRW. Also lots of sugary snacks passed around in addition to the giant chocolate
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The giant chocolate - this is now a common thing for the holiday season? This was loaded to the serving cart on my recent CBR-MEL. But it was never given to pax. Only one pax in 1F received it because he didn’t want to partake in the meal service … I wish they had given it to pax on the service I was on … the chocolate looked nice
Had the pork twice in the last 2 weeks and whilst it looks like prison slop it tasted good. One was a little fatty but they both tasted decentQF Link CBR-MEL 717 service, 17:35.
No PDB or water. Offered a light dinner, single option of the pork fillet. A variety of snacks (pretzels, cookies, hummus snack box) as alternatives.
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Wasn’t looking forward to the dish given comments on this thread, but we both enjoyed it. Tasty and tender pork, but was a bit fatty toward the end. Mash and veg standard, but was impressed that some of the sugar peas retained their snap though!
Pinot gris and a Cab Sav. Both were nice and with proactive top ups from the good crew. All up pretty good for a short flight.
The breakfast looks terribleQF93
Chicken salad starter was tasty and light
Barra for main was “fine” a bit lacking in overall flavour and was small
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For those that care to scan back through over 200 pages of posts in this thread, it is documented that prior to covid, Qantas offered an "international level of meal service" on domestic transcontinental flights. (Take a look back if you dare!)
What I want to do today though, is demonstrate how you can still get that level of service, by comparing two transcontinental flights, one is on an international flight's domestic sector, the other on a domestic only flight: both similar wide bodies, the only difference one was heading west from an international terminal and the other heading east from a domestic terminal!
Let's have a quick start in the F lounge (only because that was a bonus for slogging through immigration processing etc, as a domestic passenger).
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Yum, yum, yum.... now we can get on our way to the aeroplane.
Once onboard, you are greeted with a menu, and offered a sparkling wine or water to drink prior to departure.
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However, on a domestic sector, you are greeted with nothing, no menu and no pre-departure drinks on offer... just a bare table top.
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On the international flight, you could also turn behind you and find a water bottle already stored for your inflight consumption, the same holder was empty on the domestic flight.
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On both flights, once in the air, flight attendants moved through the cabin with a pre-meal drinks trolley.
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And the international terminal departing flight had full bedding presented at the seat when boarding (pad, cover, pillow, etc), on the domestic terminal departing flight nothing, plus I heard someone nearby ask an FA for a pillow, and none was found. (Both day time flights.)Not food related but the other difference is one has noise cancelling headphones and the other doesn't.
@dk4 thanks for the comparo. Very interesting.What I want to do today though