Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

[goingboeing]

CBR-BNE lunch flight, dinner options were Chicken/Tomato sauce with Israeli Couscous (took me back to preschool with the Couscous tasting like Play-Doh!) or a vegetarian dish which was an egg noodle and vegetable salad of some description.

Probably the least tasty VA business meal options so far unfortunately, hopefully it is the exception to the rule!

 

[robd]

CBR-BNE lunch flight, dinner options were Chicken/Tomato sauce with Israeli Couscous (took me back to preschool with the Couscous tasting like Play-Doh!) or a vegetarian dish which was an egg noodle and vegetable salad of some description.

Probably the least tasty VA business meal options so far unfortunately, hopefully it is the exception to the rule!

I had a very dry frittata in J a couple of weeks ago. It was a bit like foam rubber. The pesto & sundried tomatoes did assist in swallowing the foam however.

 

[robbie1984]

CBR-BNE lunch flight, dinner options were Chicken/Tomato sauce with Israeli Couscous (took me back to preschool with the Couscous tasting like Play-Doh!) or a vegetarian dish which was an egg noodle and vegetable salad of some description.

Probably the least tasty VA business meal options so far unfortunately, hopefully it is the exception to the rule!

That's disappointing, I've had this dish both on the short haul domestic and the coast-to-coast service and loved it. Maybe a bad batch from the caterer in CBR? I would provide feedback.

 

[Theky]

Had the Mediterranean salad yesterday on BNE - SYD in J. It was delicious!

Grilled cucumber, sun dried tomato, roasted peppers, feta and prosciutto.

Maybe I was just hungry

 

[goingboeing]

Vegetable curry with rice and the normal mixed greens salad over the weekend on a dinner service. Only one meal per pax had been loaded, so too bad if you wanted the other selection (Duck + Beef pie). Not too bad overall, though it would have been a killer curry with some chicken or beef and a little less eggplant

 

[hgwells01]

MLB - NTL lunch today, 5 out of 6 J class seats taken, Alison our FA offerred all of us the chicken curry or the veggie cous cous, every one of us took the curry and man was it awesome, huge chicken leg and great sauce (man what did they do to them to get turkey sized legs on them?) incredibly tender, served with a mint and something salad, was in row 2 and the guy behind me in 3 said the smells from J class are killing me..... I think the whole plane could smell it and was drooling. A little cheesecake and the usual offer of coffee tea wine water and a bread roll, but that curry was by far the best J class meal i've had in the last 10 flights this month. Most importantly none of us missed out, they loaded enough meals for us all to have the chicken curry, I would have hated to see everyone else get curry and us miss out as we were last served.

 

[sogg]

No need to fly high for a Virgin Australia airline meal | News.com.au

A chance to try the meals without paying for business....

 

[smit0847]

No need to fly high for a Virgin Australia airline meal | News.com.au

A chance to try the meals without paying for business....

It's a good idea but wouldn't it be far more useful to have high-status VA pax testing the food (if interested) rather than some pleb who reads news.com.au? They're the ones who are deciding whether to purchase the product, rather than some random who's feedback might be 'the food was very nice but I could never afford those business class prices'

They could have a monthly tasting night for select WP similar to QF's P1 events?

 

[hummel]

MLB - NTL lunch today, 5 out of 6 J class seats taken, Alison our FA offerred all of us the chicken curry or the veggie cous cous, every one of us took the curry and man was it awesome, huge chicken leg and great sauce (man what did they do to them to get turkey sized legs on them?) incredibly tender, served with a mint and something salad, was in row 2 and the guy behind me in 3 said the smells from J class are killing me..... I think the whole plane could smell it and was drooling. A little cheesecake and the usual offer of coffee tea wine water and a bread roll, but that curry was by far the best J class meal i've had in the last 10 flights this month. Most importantly none of us missed out, they loaded enough meals for us all to have the chicken curry, I would have hated to see everyone else get curry and us miss out as we were last served.

This is what I like to hear!

 

[Deleted member 29185]

This is what I like to hear!

Just had a J flight. Myself and my son were the first two asked our preference (1A, 1C). We both chose the salmon sandwich fingers. I got them, my 16YO got a savoury muffin. I swapped with him because he loves salmon. J was chocker block full so I imagine an adult was given preference over him. I don't really have much of a thought about it either way, but I can see Brads point if this happened all the time. 16YOs pay the same fare as the "adults" so why the favouritism? My wife and daughter recieved their chosen savoury muffin so we couldn't have been any fairer between us with the choices....2 of each out of 8.

 

[quick_dry]

SYD-MEL Thursday morning at the crack of dawn. Described as a streaky bacon and cheese toasty

 

[Plutonus]

Am I the only one who finds it strange to be served a bread roll when the main is bread based?

 

[dk4]

Am I the only one who finds it strange to be served a bread roll when the main is bread based?

I think that its is poor planning: Qantas does it as well, consider their Banana Bread AM snack, when I was then offered a slice of bread on the side!

If the main plate has bread or a roll on it, then please airlines offer a croissant, muffin, danish or something different for the side plate!

 

[dk4]

Vege option on an evening meal flight. (B737 1.5hr scheduled service.)

 

[dk4]

There is always a choice of entrée when flying coast to coast at lunch or dinner time...

...OR....

...and that's after an enormous bowl (or 2... ) of mixed nuts...

...and before a choice of 3 main meals, all served with a side salad...

...and there's ample fresh cutlery.

 

[EuroKick]

If you don't want the roll, don't eat it. It's not that difficult.

 

[DGW]

MEL-BNE at 7am on Monday, a bacon & egg muffin with caramelised onion - one I haven't had before. It was quite nice, found the presentation a bit odd though.

 

[DGW]

BNE-MEL at 1pm a couple of weeks back, a prawn and mushroom fettuccine which had a bit of kick, it was nice.

 

[bcworld]

VA303 MEL-BNE at 0600

Bacon & egg muffin with caremalised onion

VA1100 BNE-NTL 0930

Salmon, cream cheese & caper finger sandwiches

VA1109 NTL-BNE 1650

Hmmm, the Prosciutto salad...I'm not sure about this one....it's a little odd!

VA354 BNE-MEL 1955

Beef & duck pie

 

[DGW]

VA354 BNE-MEL 1955

Beef & duck pie

I had this for lunch from BNE to MEL on Friday. The beef component was nice but I found the duck pieces inedible. The soy beans on top was a bit of a strange one, I would have preferred the mushy peas from a couple of months back.