Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[sudoer]

May have been this way for a while, but definitely my “Back to normal” observation for CBR and in particular the J lounge.

I was chatting with my Uber driver late last week and he said jobs to/from CBR had only just picked up that week in the lead up to parliament sitting.

CBR VA lounge on Friday mid arvo (3-3:30pm) was pretty quiet, maybe 25-30 people total.

 

[wannabeinvestmentbanker]

I’ve noticed the same thing…last thurs in MEL was a shock…makes me miss school holidays when crowds are thinner but more kids

To make the comment on topic todays Syd mel was serving chicken with sweet potato or beef salad

My choice below as heading to dins when landing and too hot for red wine as we waited onboard a while as SYD went down to single runway ops at pushback

 

[RooFlyer]

My choice below as heading to dins when landing and too hot for red wine as we waited onboard a while as SYD went down to single runway ops at pushback

So what’s that? Chips, pretzels and olives.? Was it a standard meal or something created for you or by you?

 

[zig]

So what’s that? Chips, pretzels and olives.? Was it a standard meal or something created for you or by you?

I think it is almonds, rather than olives. Either way, it’s not appetising.

 

[kermatu]

CBR-MEL 16:35, 717 service. Only option of a toasted sandwich.


Described by Luke, the excellent CSM, as a “Fromage toastie” with a very sly glint in his eye. Turned out to be the croque monsieur with ham. Better than the Reuben rubbish, but still pretty average. Nice wines and a bonus chocolate wafer. I’m not normally a sweet tooth but it was terrific.
Luke provided excellent service throughout the short flight and on deplaning. A credit to QF.

Then downgraded to economy for the leg to HBA (aircraft swap, and lengthy delay). Just to note when we eventually took the flight, there was decent catering of a chicken, cheese and onion panini as well as some wine (although white only).


Will post about the downgrade experience in another thread when I’ve had a response to an email, but all things considered this Y experience was just fine in comparison.

 

[servicerequired]

CBR-MEL 16:35, 717 service. Only option of a toasted sandwich.
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Described by Luke, the excellent CSM, as a “Fromage toastie” with a very sly glint in his eye. Turned out to be the croque monsieur with ham. Better than the Reuben rubbish, but still pretty average. Nice wines and a bonus chocolate wafer. I’m not normally a sweet tooth but it was terrific.
Luke provided excellent service throughout the short flight and on deplaning. A credit to QF.

Then downgraded to economy for the leg to HBA (aircraft swap, and lengthy delay). Just to note when we eventually took the flight, there was decent catering of a chicken, cheese and onion panini as well as some wine (although white only).

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Will post about the downgrade experience in another thread when I’ve had a response to an email, but all things considered this Y experience was just fine in comparison.

The panini looks 10x better than the croq-of-s**t.

Please discontinue the croq QF !!

 

[Tea-Aholic]

My first post on AFF

QF499 SYD-MEL

Bread crust was very hard to eat, but the sweet potato, peas and chicken with creamy mushroom sauce was really good.

 

[Daver6]

My first post on AFF

QF499 SYD-MEL

Bread crust was very hard to eat, but the sweet potato, peas and chicken with creamy mushroom sauce was really good.

Yup, that's what I had last week. It's pretty decent I thought.

 

[maia200]

Last week flight BNE-AKL QF J - no printed menu. PDB offered Sparkling I think it was. Lunch was Barramundi/ Veal ravioli / chicken salad. Dark chocolate and raspberry desert which was nice. Chose the veal - dry, garlicky and almost non edible. Luckily we had a fairly decent breakfast of eggs, beans and toast in the Lounge beforehand and mimosa's. Rose available - Howard Vineyard Adelaide 2021.

 

[maia200]

Flight back AKL-BNE QF J yesterday 7th. No printed menu. Some French champagne offered as PDB but too dry for me even if I added orange juice. No Rose. Lunch was Pork sirloin or chicken and sweet potato mash. Declined had some nice asparagus soup in First Lounge and believe it or not actually enjoyed some fresh butter chicken - I reckon I have missed it - taken mainly morning flights. Also salted caramel ice-cream. Declined lunch on the plane but had half the lemon cheesecake and a Lindt. No photo.

 

[RooFlyer]

Chose the veal - dry, garlicky and almost non edible.

It looks exactly that. What's the chopped green stuff, I guess purporting to be garnish?

 

[Berlin]

8th Feb. SYD-MEL “dinner” flight on 737:

Truly uneventful flight. To my utter surprise, priority boarding was enforced and watched over with eagle eyes. Seems to happen more often recently I’ve read somewhere on here, let’s hold it stays like that. Super lovely purser (or is it called “manager” on Qantas? I never know…) who was almost over the top friendly but I ain’t complaining.

Food option was some rabbit food or pasta with smoked pork. Could swear I had this before but it was fairly tasty (after picking off the grass plantings on top- bah). Wine was the excellent Dandelion Shiraz. Plenty of top ups offered and finished with a Scotch at the very end. Pleasant flight, nothing particularly good or bad- nice staff, awful old 737, the usual.

 

[Cognac]

Feb 7 QF10 LHR-PER

I didn't take a photo of the menu, but I had the polenta for dinner, followed by pancakes for breakfast. The polenta was pretty good. The pancakes were cold by the time they were served to me.

The food service was really, *really* slow. I think it took about 2 and a bit hours to get through dinner. Breakfast was an uncoordinated schemozzle. They just seemed to be behind the eight-ball for the entire operation. The flight was delayed by 6-hours getting out of London due to the diversion to Frankfurt a few days earlier and having to accommodate the crew rotation/duty limits. I don't know if that 6-hour delay played havoc with their catering supplier or not, but it just wasn't up to scratch.

I don't want to blame the crew because I'm sure they had a lot going on, but it just wasn't what one would expect for ultra-long haul J. Extremely disappointing, and I'm waiting for my "please tell us what you thought" follow-up email.

 

[1022]

Extremely disappointing, and I'm waiting for my "please tell us what you thought" follow-up email.

Those emails seem to be few and far between these days…I suspect some exec might miss out on a six or seven figure bonus if there’s too much unfavourable data feeding into their KPIs

 

[bam71]

Got QF52 J Sin Bne coming up on Tuesday, anyone done this recently re menu?

 

[WeeGraeme]

My apologies if this has been asked before, especially recently. I've tried searching, but the search engine tells me that QF9 is too short or too common.

I have flights in April on QF937 (BNE-PER) departing at 1300, and then connecting to QF9. On the way back in June, I'm flying on QF2 and QF52. All flights are in J.

I'm wondering what's likely to be on the menu, or even how soon before the flights the menu would be known. What would likely be on offer in the Brisbane domestic lounge or the Perth transit lounge

 

[emilbulls]

QF 426
Choice between the Reuben Sandwich or a salad with vegetables.
Took the Sandwich and was positively surprised, especially after reading all the stories in this thread.
I believe it’s absolutely ok for a an hour flight at this time. Accompanied with a Lindt ball and Lindt bar.
Need to note that I fly business class very seldom, Upgraded this time as it was a A330 flight.

 

[Daver6]

My apologies if this has been asked before, especially recently. I've tried searching, but the search engine tells me that QF9 is too short or too common.

I have flights in April on QF937 (BNE-PER) departing at 1300, and then connecting to QF9. On the way back in June, I'm flying on QF2 and QF52. All flights are in J.

I'm wondering what's likely to be on the menu, or even how soon before the flights the menu would be known. What would likely be on offer in the Brisbane domestic lounge or the Perth transit lounge

I thought I might have a photo of the food offering from the PER transit lounge prior to QF9 departure, but this is all I have



The food offering is pretty decent. Much better than say the SYD intentional QF J lounge. They have some fancy NP hot dogs as the "special". There's a decent selection of hot and cold food as well as dessert. It's no F lounge but IMHO a decent offering.

I'm not sure exactly what time QF 937 lands in PER but I suspect it will be prior to the transit lounge opening. So setup camp in the domestic J lounge and move across as soon as you can. Not sure if the dom J lounge pizzas will still be happening at your arrival time though.

 

[WeeGraeme]

I'm not sure exactly what time QF 937 lands in PER

It gets in at 1625. QF9 departs at 1845. I didn't realise I could access the domestic J lounge.

 

[Daver6]

It gets in at 1625. QF9 departs at 1845. I didn't realise I could access the domestic J lounge.

With that timing I'd head straight through to the international lounge. Would give you enough time for a shower and/or a little guided meditation/stretching session (goes for 10-15 minutes)