Our flight was an award booking made with KrisFlyer points during on of the Spontaneous Deals promos recently. 42K KF pts was a bargain. The flight was in one of the A350 regional aircraft and while the hard product was not as good as the longer haul configurations it was perfectly fine.
Flight was delayed at the gate while technicians were brought in for some flight software issue reboot.
Offered Champagne prior to takeoff but for some reason they then had an issue with the IFE system and so service sort of disappeared for a while from our area of the J cabin and the bubbly didn't arrive until service resumed after takeoff.
The usual Satays of course.
Followed by the very tasty mango salsa.
I had ordered the book the cook lobster and Mrs Woodyren the chicken rice.
Mine was fine but hers was only so so (she is a tough judge)
Desert trolly selection for me.
A few more Champagnes and then a reasonable 4 hours or so sleep before touchdown around 6am in Sydney.
No breakfast service. Suited us anyway so we go more sleep but I am wondering is that is that the usual routine for the early arrival.
So that's a wrap for my second ever TR. Felt fantastic just to be experiencing some travel again and a really incident free trip.
Home and some part time work while we await the next and much longer venture in early August when we will head to the Maldives, the UK for a cruise, a few weeks of train travel from UK to Italy through Switzerland and Northern Italy and then 3 Med cruises around the Greek Islands, Turkey and Italy.
Cheers.