Qantas domestic economy meals

[TKennedy88]

Two MEL-SYD legs this week, both bordering what you would call ‘main meal’ times : 11:30am & 4:45pm and both just a cheese and crackers. And the coughpy new ‘real’ brand cheese and crackers which taste like cardboard.
Also got a huff and puff and attitude when having the Gaul to ask for a second red wine when still an hour until landing. Love paying extra for all of this!

 

[cosi]

QF645 Syd-Per 5th Sep.


Chicken and rice was very tasty.


Personally I miss the ice cream that was served later in the flight pre covid.

 

[Daver6]

QF645 Syd-Per 5th Sep.

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Chicken and rice was very tasty.

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Personally I miss the ice cream that was served later in the flight pre covid.

Remember years ago when they'd hand out a drumstick. Those were the days...

 

[Catweazle]

Golden Gaytimes are better than drumsticks, but one can't complain. One must get what one is given!

 

[significance]

QF2409 EMD-BNE at 1700 yesterday: savoury biscuits and dip with a wine service.
QF760 BNE-TSV at 1935: warm chicken panini and beer/wine/softdrink. The flight crew came around and offered a second panini to anyone who wanted it -- good service. I could be misremembering, but I think the alcoholic beverage option is new (or newly reintroduced) on this flight.

 

[CorporateFlyerMEL]

OK QF10 Per - Mel in Y:
- water bottle shortly after departure
- beef (hot), veg noodles (hot) or chicken salad (cold) with warm focaccia
- GnT
- Magnum ice cream
- cheese and biscuit pack
- lindt balls
- all in 2.50 flight

Cant complain...

 

[JohnM]

We encountered a bizarre experience on a QLink whY-only A320 mid afternoon flight yesterday BME-PER.

They served a small hot meal of vegetable fritters. The FA handed over the box and then carried on. Open the box and there are four hot, rather oily fritters with no eating implements.

I call the FA back and ask for something to eat them with. She hands over a cutlery pack with the comment "We don't hand these out unless pax ask for them."

Seriously?! Surely that's a new low for QF catering.

Has anyone ever struck this before?

 

[TheRealTMA]

We encountered a bizarre experience on a QLink whY-only A320 mid afternoon flight yesterday BME-PER.

They served a small hot meal of vegetable fritters. The FA handed over the box and then carried on. Open the box and there are four hot, rather oily fritters with no eating implements.

I call the FA back and ask for something to eat them with. She hands over a cutlery pack with the comment "We don't hand these out unless pax ask for them."

Seriously?! Surely that's a new low for QF catering.

Has anyone ever struck this before?

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maybe depends on the clients who fly that route" (duck)

 

[GDale]

We encountered a bizarre experience on a QLink whY-only A320 mid afternoon flight yesterday BME-PER.

They served a small hot meal of vegetable fritters. The FA handed over the box and then carried on. Open the box and there are four hot, rather oily fritters with no eating implements.

I call the FA back and ask for something to eat them with. She hands over a cutlery pack with the comment "We don't hand these out unless pax ask for them."

Seriously?! Surely that's a new low for QF catering.

Has anyone ever struck this before?

Yes had this experience flying SYD-MEL recently, and it even came with some sauce. The fritters are actually quite nice, but it definitely had me thinking about how they were pushing the boundaries of what one could reasonably juggle in an economy seat!

 

[RooFlyer]

Has anyone ever struck this before?

Yes I got a couple of croquettes in a box once that looked just like a couple of turds lying there. Greasey and awful looking - I didn’t bother asking for any eating irons matchwood, just quietly closed up the box.

 

[elanshin]

We encountered a bizarre experience on a QLink whY-only A320 mid afternoon flight yesterday BME-PER.

They served a small hot meal of vegetable fritters. The FA handed over the box and then carried on. Open the box and there are four hot, rather oily fritters with no eating implements.

I call the FA back and ask for something to eat them with. She hands over a cutlery pack with the comment "We don't hand these out unless pax ask for them."

Seriously?! Surely that's a new low for QF catering.

Has anyone ever struck this before?

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Pretty normal atm. It's supposed to be "finger food".
Personally if that's how they want to treat it, fine but give us some sanitising hand wipes for before and after.

 

[jukebox333]

We encountered a bizarre experience on a QLink whY-only A320 mid afternoon flight yesterday BME-PER.

They served a small hot meal of vegetable fritters. The FA handed over the box and then carried on. Open the box and there are four hot, rather oily fritters with no eating implements.

I call the FA back and ask for something to eat them with. She hands over a cutlery pack with the comment "We don't hand these out unless pax ask for them."

Seriously?! Surely that's a new low for QF catering.

Has anyone ever struck this before?

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Yes, had these occasionally on PER - KTA runs this year. But mainly "breakfast quiche" or "breakfast frittata"...

All equally abhorrent (and boring after the first two times...) but when the plane is wall to wall fluoro, I suspect the culinary opinions of the pax are not a big concern to QF management

 

[frodo]

QF 555 BNE - SYD

 

[SYD]

QF 555 BNE - SYD

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So technically 3x sausage rolls. But I don’t see any tomato sauce!

 

[douglasac10]

And now for something hideously exciting, QF2254 15/10/23, ADL-MGB on a Dash 8.

It's been a while since I flew this route (and last time it on Rex due to them at the time being the only airline serving MGB).

The service was an Antipasti set which included six almonds, four olives, three Jatz and three pieces of cheese. Everyone was offered a bottle of water and they did a run of other drinks - I had a Coke No Sugar but they were also offering beer and wine. It was perfectly edible (except for the olives which I don't care for so skipped).



Not much, but this is only just over an hour and a late afternoon flight to an outstation where they only hang around for 20 minutes or so before heading back, I'm not really complaining (especially seeing some of the other "offerings" on the mainline flights!).

When I last flew this with Rex, I recall the offering being a cookie and a soft drink.

 

[servicerequired]

And now for something hideously exciting, QF2254 15/10/23, ADL-MGB on a Dash 8.

It's been a while since I flew this route (and last time it on Rex due to them at the time being the only airline serving MGB).

The service was an Antipasti set which included six almonds, four olives, three Jatz and three pieces of cheese. Everyone was offered a bottle of water and they did a run of other drinks - I had a Coke No Sugar but they were also offering beer and wine. It was perfectly edible (except for the olives which I don't care for so skipped).

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Not much, but this is only just over an hour and a late afternoon flight to an outstation where they only hang around for 20 minutes or so before heading back, I'm not really complaining (especially seeing some of the other "offerings" on the mainline flights!).

When I last flew this with Rex, I recall the offering being a cookie and a soft drink.

These are small but good - regular catering on the nightly SYD-MQL run.

 

[servicerequired]

QF440 22/07/23 12:00pm

Cheese and spring onion sandwich with caramelised onion relish. 2/3rds of a sandwich really. Hope that you like onions. Sandwich was fresh from the freezer. Significant scope for improvement. Very cheerful mature crew.

Interesting ... today's QF Link Dash 8 300 MEL-MQL at 12:15 PM ... instead of the regular biscuit/s, a pastrami and mustard sandwich was served ... I don't think I've seen anything other than biscuits, banana bread, cheese / crackers / nibble boxes on QF Link's Dash 8 services for years.

 

[cosi]

QF652 Per-Syd

Tasty was okay but very old 737 with no usb in Y. Why do QF send this planes on the West-East routes?

 

[kangarooflyer88]

QF 745 yesterday ( SYD > ADL) had pizza in coach. Arguably one of the nicer meals I've had in economy on a domestic route (and I've been on quite a few of those including DFW, DRW, MEL, PER, HBA, etc.)

 

[RooFlyer]

Arguably one of the nicer meals I've had in economy on a domestic route (and I've been on quite a few of those including DFW, DRW, MEL, PER, HBA, etc.)

I take it that’s one of your regular little attempts at ironic humour. The only thing I can’t see in that box are the bits of undigested carrot. Disgusting.