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Well SYD-PER and PER-SYD actually...
Monday flew to Perth on QF575. Plane was a new A330-200 (do they still make 200s or was it newly refurbished?) with individual IFE with almost all the same programming (ie a lot of shows) as I had on the SYD-LAX A380 in September. Managed to catch a few of the shows I didn't finish that time which was good. I'm sure when Captain High-Hat started the safety demo he said "Today you're travelling on an Airbus A380..." but I coulda bin mistaken. Anyway it was a great flight, when the IFE works (except for having to exchange the dodgy headphones) and there's this much choice you can't really complain.
Today I returned on QF576 which was a different story. It was a 767-338 with the old big screens in the middle and small ones down the sides, you know what I mean. When they ran the videos the colour was washed out and the sound didn't work. They tried the safety demonstration and that failed so the FAs had to go manual. What amazed me is that I'd reckon most of the WPs and probably SGs on this board could quote the safety monologue verbatim for any of the major planes however the FA just stumbled through it leaving most of it out over the years. I guess she'd tuned it out. When she said "you will find your life jacket under your seat..." I swear I saw a dozen people mouth the words "and under your armrest in Business Class" when she didn't say it!
Anyway we got underway and despite the best efforts at endlessly rebooting the IFE it never worked. Also there was an extremely irritating clicking sound over the PA that went for about 10 seconds every 30 seconds (or so it seemed) for the duration of the flight. Also the reading lights went off and didn't come back on until the last 30 minutes of the flight.
We arrived late after leaving late (Perth peak hour is 730am as the miners' planes take off) and I'm very glad I had a book to read! I can say the staff were excellent so no complaints there but the point of this post was to contrast the two planes really. With all the hoo-hah over Airbus Scarebus I thought I'd use this as a "road test" comparison example - which is about as scientific as Today Tonight.
Monday flew to Perth on QF575. Plane was a new A330-200 (do they still make 200s or was it newly refurbished?) with individual IFE with almost all the same programming (ie a lot of shows) as I had on the SYD-LAX A380 in September. Managed to catch a few of the shows I didn't finish that time which was good. I'm sure when Captain High-Hat started the safety demo he said "Today you're travelling on an Airbus A380..." but I coulda bin mistaken. Anyway it was a great flight, when the IFE works (except for having to exchange the dodgy headphones) and there's this much choice you can't really complain.
Today I returned on QF576 which was a different story. It was a 767-338 with the old big screens in the middle and small ones down the sides, you know what I mean. When they ran the videos the colour was washed out and the sound didn't work. They tried the safety demonstration and that failed so the FAs had to go manual. What amazed me is that I'd reckon most of the WPs and probably SGs on this board could quote the safety monologue verbatim for any of the major planes however the FA just stumbled through it leaving most of it out over the years. I guess she'd tuned it out. When she said "you will find your life jacket under your seat..." I swear I saw a dozen people mouth the words "and under your armrest in Business Class" when she didn't say it!
Anyway we got underway and despite the best efforts at endlessly rebooting the IFE it never worked. Also there was an extremely irritating clicking sound over the PA that went for about 10 seconds every 30 seconds (or so it seemed) for the duration of the flight. Also the reading lights went off and didn't come back on until the last 30 minutes of the flight.
We arrived late after leaving late (Perth peak hour is 730am as the miners' planes take off) and I'm very glad I had a book to read! I can say the staff were excellent so no complaints there but the point of this post was to contrast the two planes really. With all the hoo-hah over Airbus Scarebus I thought I'd use this as a "road test" comparison example - which is about as scientific as Today Tonight.
