Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

How unfortunate. The cheese dessert plate is one of those highlights for me. Mark my words - I'd be logging a Cheese Wheel Incident Report.
I flew Perth to Sydney on Friday (va564), brie was the only option then as well. Rest of the meal was pretty ordinary - chicken with penne pasta, no sauce no flavor.
 
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Sydney to Perth last night on VA569, cheese board consisted of only Brie again. Maybe a permanent cost cutting change?
 
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Business class flight last Friday, late morning - SYD-BNE.

Pumpkin and Spinach tart with yoghurt / muesli and a nice choc chip muffin. Also a packet with two sun dried tomato and parmesan bites.
 

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Anyone know what meals to expect on these flights?

VA 167 09:30 MEL-AKL15:05
VA 91 16:30 AKL-RAR 22:15

VA 90 23:10 RAR-AKL 01:50
VA 164 06:30 AKL-MEL 08:40

I'm familiar with the domestic offerings and timings, but this will be my first time flying trans-Tasman in J on a VA 737 — and beyond for that matter! What differences should I look out for compared to domestic?
 
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Really? A $2 sandwich not my idea of a J meal or refreshment. And the salad. Looks disturbingly like QF.

Sometimes for me - that $2 sandwich or simple, but nicely presented salad ticks the right box. But I imagine it would not be what many J passengers envisage for their meal, so point taken.

For a 1 hour flight - I actually appreciate a snack that is fuss free and preferably - doesn't require the full bib treatment with cutlery. OT, but Daughter treated me to a Hoyts LUXE screening of Aladdin last week. And the silly practice of negotiating knives & forks while watching a movie in an intimate but acoustically-challenged theatre, was quite comical. I should have ordered a sandwich :)
 
Really? A $2 sandwich not my idea of a J meal or refreshment. And the salad. Looks disturbingly like QF.

As I hinted above, the sandwich is a crew meal item. The crew must have been feeling generous and gave it away (assuming that the poster wasn’t keen on the business catering)
 
Maybe the CSM wanted the sausage roll?

Perhaps I'm coloured by the fact that 83.72% of my lunches are good old sandwiches. For the simple reasons of being filling, tasty, convenient to make/store/travel/consume etc. Which make them an OK in-flight option -- but I do expect better in J.
 
So clearly Luke Mangan has finally got the rrse - this chocky dished up in J MEL-SYD today:

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Tasted like roo poo - I think The Bush Tucker Man has the gig now - you’d need to be starving after 3 days lost in Simpson Desert to stomach this!!!
 
I worry that VA's domestic J class catering is dropping to QF's abysmal levels .
A recent BNE-DRW in J offered a cold sandwich with very unpalatable wines.
Surely Virgin can keep their standards higher than that of Qantas.
 
10:15 flight CBR-MEL. Options were fruit salad or hot spinach and potato frittata. I went the frittata.

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Was quite tasty, but had an overbearing pepper taste.

Apologies for poor shot. Not pictured but on the tray were a muffin, small bowl of yoghurt and fruit, and a small packet of two cheesy biscuit things.
 
Menus not loaded on MEL-PER 1pm flight on the weekend, so will attempt from memory. Was gearing up for being underwhelmed when I heard the FA tell the pax ahead of me “There’s a soup to start and choice of pasta or salad”; and then “some salty snacks” with a pre-lunch drink.

Thankfully by the time I was invited to select it was a choice of two starters, three mains and the pantry snacks.

First off, QF take note, this is how to start a meal service. Give the pax some choice in snacks.

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