Qantas: 'one of the worst airlines in the free world'

[drron]

Well just had to book a last minute day trip to SYD due to bureaucratic coughry and once again QF treat BA golds well.Best seat offered 21C both ways on the 717.
No wonder the OP felt the way he did using his BA status.

 

[KitKat]

Well just had to book a last minute day trip to SYD due to bureaucratic coughry and once again QF treat BA golds well.Best seat offered 21C both ways on the 717.
No wonder the OP felt the way he did using his BA status.

What's this BA Gold?

 

[love_the_life]

Well just had to book a last minute day trip to SYD due to bureaucratic coughry and once again QF treat BA golds well.Best seat offered 21C both ways on the 717.
No wonder the OP felt the way he did using his BA status.

Though other airlines do not necessarily give QFF status holders the best seats. QFSG ends up with choices down the back of the plane with LATAM if a Y seat.

 

[serfty]

Well just had to book a last minute day trip to SYD due to bureaucratic coughry and once again QF treat BA golds well.Best seat offered 21C both ways on the 717.
No wonder the OP felt the way he did using his BA status.

That's surprising as the reports I see are that Qantas treat Emeralds pretty well. Mind you, a last minute trip may have had many seats already allocated.

 

[drron]

That's surprising as the reports I see are that Qantas treat Emeralds pretty well. Mind you, a last minute trip may have had many seats already allocated.

So I just did a dummy booking on mrsdrron's WP account and on both flights she has the choice of any aisle seat in rows 6-11.

 

[Vic]

OK, let's just cut to the chase:
Yanks down under - 'Over-sexed, over-paid and over here'

Wow, blast from the past. Widely held sentiment in WW2.

A bit of history best forgotten. Battle of Brisbane - Wikipedia

 

[RichardMEL]

I think the point is being made is that one could easily be forgiven for thinking that's the general opinion of QF fans... they are genuinely willing to overlook anything.

The list of reasons to dismiss anything negative about QF is extensive - anything and everything including from drooping beds on the A380, the 'new' suites on the A330 now being second generation, no PJs on day flights, stroppy crew, angled beds still flying around, under-catering or lack of choice by the time they get to row 3 on a 737... just a few of the things that QF fans seem to be able to explain away.

The only thing that hasn't been dismissed? Glacially slow meal service - no one seems to be able to argue in favour of that!

Sure but in THIS thread I haven't seen anyone defend the state of the J lounge, or the deal with HBA QC, or the Breakfast on HBA-SYD and I don't believe anyone has suggested that QF F is the best product in the air.

I mean SFO777's post suggested some posters in THIS THREAD were going all fanboi and defending QF to the hilt... well I haven't seen mass disagreement with the general bad aspects of the TR.. more the hyperbole of the quote and characterisation therein. Even with disagreeing with the notion of QF being "one of the worst airlines in the free world" does not automatically mean that it is the best though.

In general though, I agree with your points.

 

[RichardMEL]

No wonder the OP felt the way he did using his BA status.

Well I dunno about that given SFO777 and his wife flew in F to MEL then J and had an exit row on one flight in Y on the 717 and J back to LA, so I don't know that seat allocations were specific issues for him.

 

[love_the_life]

Well I dunno about that given SFO777 and his wife flew in F to MEL then J and had an extit row on one flight in Y on the 717 and J back to LA, so I don't know that seat allocations were specific issues for him.

They had a cough row? I didn't know they existed.
A colleague once mispronounced Hittites when reading a bible passage to her Year 7 class.

 

[VPS]

They had a cough row? I didn't know they existed.
A colleague once mispronounced Hittites when reading a bible passage to her Year 7 class.

I'm sitting her alone supposedly working and you just made me LOL - thanks

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Sure but in THIS thread I haven't seen anyone defend the state of the J lounge,

I seem to recall those saying that the sstaff are busy and can't be expected to take out a vacuum all the time? While that's not condoning the state of the lounge it is explaining it away and offering an excuse.

 

[JohnK]

I seem to recall those saying that the sstaff are busy and can't be expected to take out a vacuum all the time? While that's not condoning the state of the lounge it is explaining it away and offering an excuse.

That's not an excuse it's reality. If the staff are vacuuming regularly then won't be clearing tables or checking food.

A few crums on the floor during busy times is not a big deal.

 

[serfty]

That's not an excuse it's reality. If the staff are vacuuming regularly then won't be clearing tables or checking food.

A few crums on the floor during busy times is not a big deal.

Everyone has their own definition. In many places I have been it would be a big deal.

Why can't staff keep clean both floors and tables as well as checking food?

 

[dajop]

A few crums on the floor during busy times is not a big deal.

Just been reading a certain other thread. Here’s a complete hypothetical - the lounge gods could waive their magic wands and be rid of one - and just one - of these two specific lounge annoyances, which would people prefer ... crumbs on the floor during busy times or people talking loudly on their phone I think I know the answer ...

 

[levelnine]

The only thing that hasn't been dismissed? Glacially slow meal service - no one seems to be able to argue in favour of that!

Interestingly, I was on an international flight on QF in J the other day and got chatting to two flight attendants who mentioned their frustration at the slow meal service in international J.

They attribute the slowness to Qantas' decision to cut the number of flight attendants on each aircraft. For example, when the A380 first flew, it had 24 crew. It now has 20. Fewer staff means slower service.

So you can blame Alan Joyce for the glacially slow meal service. He is under-staffing the planes.

 

[SFO777]

It looks like Qantas is now offering protein with their salads in the SYD International Business Lounge.

 

[Pushka]

Just been reading a certain other thread. Here’s a complete hypothetical - the lounge gods could waive their magic wands and be rid of one - and just one - of these two specific lounge annoyances, which would people prefer ... crumbs on the floor during busy times or people talking loudly on their phone I think I know the answer ...

The only thing Qantas really has control over is crud on the floor.

 

[andye]

The only thing Qantas really has control over is crud on the floor.

I took out my phone in the JAL J lounge in NRT and was swiftly escorted to a booth

 

[Pushka]

I took out my phone in the JAL J lounge in NRT and was swiftly escorted to a booth

Gotta love Japan! Can’t imagine the angst created by some people in Australia if that happened here. It’s a shame they stopped the “no mobile phone use” areas in the lounges.

 

[Saltywings]

It looks like Qantas is now offering protein with their salads in the SYD International Business Lounge.

I was surprised that QF actually gave compensation for that. I agree with basically all the commentors in that article - you occasionally get small critters in your food (particularly fresh), to which an (earnest) apology more than suffices; accept it and move on.

(though finding larger things like mice and spiders are a slightly different story...)