Flight Review: Flight Review: QF6 - SIN - SYD

[boomy]

I was hungry and asked for all 3 which was returned with a surprised look from the attendant. He seemed to have this 'attitude' chip on his shoulders and treated me as if it was a privilege to be able to fly on his aircraft.

I know what you mean, I noticed this attitude sometimes when flying QF J.
I wish they will learn from the Asian carriers where the service in J is usually flawless and no request is too great.

 

[boomy]

japansuki I think QF has ascertained that the most frequent, most commercially valuable and the overall majority of travellers in Business on these short legs from SE Asia don't desire a three course meal post 10PM and at midnight Sydney time. The kids are certainly annoying but as others have said this can occur on any airline and in any class without much recourse to do anything about it. Breakfast wise as well, I do not think that the majority of people want to (as was said earlier) be woken up at 4AM or 5AM to have a heavy meal. I most certainly wouldn't want to stuff my face at dinner and then stuff it again a few hours later with no exercise or meaningful movement in the mean time.

QF should let the pax choose if they want to have a full course dinner or just a snack. Same goes for breakfast.
Maybe I had a day full of meetings and didn't have time to eat dinner or maybe I want to eat a big breakfast because I'm going to have a busy day ahead.
Sometimes the airline forgets that flying J is flying in luxury and people pay a lot for the experience of eating well and sleeping well. It's unacceptable that pax will eat a half-frozen meal or get an attitude look when asking more food.

 

[suparockin]

On the point of kids, I again incorrectly thought airlines would have had ways of dealing with kids in J class.

Oh yeah, they just put muzzles on them and lock them in cages!

 

[japansuki]

Update - have just received a phone from Qantas Executive Relations and they have credited my QFF account with 30,000 miles.

Kudos to Qantas!

 

[japansuki]

Oh yeah, they just put muzzles on them and lock them in cages!

That would work well.

 

[japansuki]

You win some, you lose some.

I won here - QF Exec Relations just phoned and credited my a/c with 30K points!

 

[Sprucegoose]

You win some, you lose some. I flew J on SQ from SIN-MEL a couple of years ago. Service was patchy at best, bed uncomfortable, and child in the row in front kept making squealing noises the whole way.

Great airline SQ if you like robotic service

 

[JohnK]

I have had bad and good experiences with most airlines I have flown in business. It shouldn't happen but it does happen because we easily accept inferior service and dont like to complain.

I flew SIN-SYD on QF6 the other day in 23J. Not as good as business class but it was OK. Food was OK. There were screaming kids but they seemed to go to sleep early. I managed to sleep ~4 hours. Cheap airfare and saved myself 50,000 QFF points although an op-up would have been very nice.

 

[japansuki]

Definitely not worth 50K - you are right. But I managed to get 30K back from Qantas
so 20K for the upgrade I suppose is OK. But I wouldn't use points nor fly J class on that flight again...

 

[AnonymousCoward]

SIN-BNE-SYD on QF52+QF8 in J wasn't much better last night although I didn't have to deal with any kids.

Like opusman said

But you get a "proper" breakfast on QF8

 

[AnonymousCoward]

To the OP, having done the QF6/82/52/10 SIN-SYD flights about 30 times now, I sympathise with the view the majority of pax (probably business travellers) don't want two meals - the flight time is too short. We either eat in SG or in the lounge (and the lounge is quite nice now), or they have the breakfast. For a flight where you get <6 hours of lights-off time, I try to get as much sleep as possible, and guess that's what QF is trying to cater to.

That said, it would be nice if they gave the option of fuller meals, but I suspect we just can't expect expensive service options from a financially struggling carrier.

 

[LittleFokker]

I flew QF6 in J last Friday. This is my first QFi J flight in 12 months (OT - I'm loving AirAsia premium seats at the moment) and I did notice some differences in meal service. Not particularly important in the scheme of things. but what happened to the dinky little salt and pepper shakers? There is no tray anymore - just the main dish plomped (is that a word?) down in front of you...

And of course I had to have the chicken schnitzel sandwich after all the previous comments in this thread. Exactly what I needed after 3 solid weeks of asian food. In fact I've preordered it for QF51 lunch this weekend.