CBR-MEL 0905 departure B717 J 1A
Very light J cabin, only 3/12 occupied.
No anything vego loaded (not even bread, pastries or cereal). Only option was bacon, scrambled eggs and potato
FA offered 2 muffins from Y, bottomless mimosa, passion fruit yogurt and black coffee. FA kept offering mimosa on account of no vego catering loaded on flight.
MEL-CBR 1955 departure A223 J 1A
Very heave J cabin, only 1 seat was empty. I had a shadow.
Once again, nothing vego loaded. Only 1 dinner option - Pork curry with rice.
I had put in order for a special meal (Strict Indian Vegetarian as available via MMB). But FA said that she couldn’t find any special meal loaded - went to double check all the ovens and came back negative.
Was offered juice (orange, apple or tomato). Was then clarified that they have a “spicy tomato” juice, if I’d like that. I said yes. So a glass of spicy tomato juice and some small packets of snacks (pretzels, almonds, chips). Was also offered spicy guacamole from Y.
In the A223 the FA noted that they were having catering issues because this is a new plane (something to the effect that the A220s were new to the fleet etc) and catering isn’t smoothed out yet. She also said she will put in a note via their iPad to let customer service know that my special meal wasn’t loaded and I should expect a call from customer service with a suitable compensation.