PaulST
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I was in AKL very briefly over the weekend and since I've tried LAN and EK J (and F) across the ditch, I was keen to fly QF's option.
Starting with the QF lounge. It's only average with a bit of soup and salad. I'm assuming you get access to the EK J lounge (when you fly J on QF metal) so it's probably worth spending your time there. You can find footage of that in my EK F flight from AKL to SYD. There was no barista too! Just the coffee machine.
Boarding was pretty easy as there aren't that many passengers and only 6 in business class. After a warm towel and a glass of champagne, we were off. The view taking off was fantastic as it was the first time I've flown out of AKL when it hasn't been raining
The seat itself is quite wide although there's not much room! I didn't recline it because I could see that it was pushing back into the Y seat behind. It was a struggle to climb over the person next to me when I had to visit the gents room too.
The IFE folds out of the left arm rest and my unit, in particular, seemed to have had a tough life. Having said that, there was a decent amount of content.
The food was OK. The soup wasn't the best I've had although the chicken I had for the main course was fine. Ample wine was provided and that tasted fairly good.
The FAs were all quite friendly and I was referred to by name throughout the flight.
The flight was smooth and we arrived in SYD 10 mins ahead of schedule.
Over-all, the hard product is vastly inferior to LAN and EK's J (which I've flown in in the last few months). The FAs were all good and the smaller aircraft means that we get away and board/deplane faster, but really I'm clutching at straws. QF's trans-Tasman hard product does struggle and I'd be keen to see if they do anything about it or accept that they'll always struggle against the large number of discounted EK seats (I think there were 3 A380s at AKL which all cross the ditch) and just keep the current lot of 738s?
Here's the video I put together:
[video=youtube;JDoIqWUPXHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDoIqWUPXHg[/video]
Starting with the QF lounge. It's only average with a bit of soup and salad. I'm assuming you get access to the EK J lounge (when you fly J on QF metal) so it's probably worth spending your time there. You can find footage of that in my EK F flight from AKL to SYD. There was no barista too! Just the coffee machine.
Boarding was pretty easy as there aren't that many passengers and only 6 in business class. After a warm towel and a glass of champagne, we were off. The view taking off was fantastic as it was the first time I've flown out of AKL when it hasn't been raining
The seat itself is quite wide although there's not much room! I didn't recline it because I could see that it was pushing back into the Y seat behind. It was a struggle to climb over the person next to me when I had to visit the gents room too.
The IFE folds out of the left arm rest and my unit, in particular, seemed to have had a tough life. Having said that, there was a decent amount of content.
The food was OK. The soup wasn't the best I've had although the chicken I had for the main course was fine. Ample wine was provided and that tasted fairly good.
The FAs were all quite friendly and I was referred to by name throughout the flight.
The flight was smooth and we arrived in SYD 10 mins ahead of schedule.
Over-all, the hard product is vastly inferior to LAN and EK's J (which I've flown in in the last few months). The FAs were all good and the smaller aircraft means that we get away and board/deplane faster, but really I'm clutching at straws. QF's trans-Tasman hard product does struggle and I'd be keen to see if they do anything about it or accept that they'll always struggle against the large number of discounted EK seats (I think there were 3 A380s at AKL which all cross the ditch) and just keep the current lot of 738s?
Here's the video I put together:
[video=youtube;JDoIqWUPXHg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDoIqWUPXHg[/video]
The seats were the widest I've had in ages. I'm not sure if it was due to the close proximity of the seat in front or some other factor, but the seats felt incredibly wide (more so than EK J and the skybed mk2s.)
