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I took a flight yesterday (QF1571), and will take a couple more today (so stay tuned). Discounting the 210 minute delay, it went pretty well. I'd booked revenue (from a voucher) business to Canberra and had booked a service after 0900 as I'd read alcohol was available after this time. I enjoy a bloody mary on short morning flights, and have have enjoyed multiple on my way to Sydney before.
Naturally, by the time we actually departed Gold Coast it was the afternoon, but I was still keen to enjoy a drink I had now waited all morning for, or at the very least a G&T. The FA took my order in the air and then began searching, before being told by the CSM – and relaying to me – that due to COVID they were not serving spirits, but I could have a beer or wine.
I don't see how a spirit is any different to a beer or wine, especially on a ticket that cost me close to $2k return. Qantas hasn't been absent from the skies for the past few months, they've just been operating a very limited network that is only now starting to build again. This is what I would have expected on Virgin Australia... but I'm actually quite disappointed by their attitude to something that must cost them practically nothing.
Now, I'm not saying I'll stop flying them, there's no one else, I realise that. But I'd be much less inclined to drop money for premium based on experiences like this. I have a few more vouchers, then I'm back to cash. Has anyone else experienced similar, is this just National Jet, did I get a bad crew, etc?
Naturally, by the time we actually departed Gold Coast it was the afternoon, but I was still keen to enjoy a drink I had now waited all morning for, or at the very least a G&T. The FA took my order in the air and then began searching, before being told by the CSM – and relaying to me – that due to COVID they were not serving spirits, but I could have a beer or wine.
I don't see how a spirit is any different to a beer or wine, especially on a ticket that cost me close to $2k return. Qantas hasn't been absent from the skies for the past few months, they've just been operating a very limited network that is only now starting to build again. This is what I would have expected on Virgin Australia... but I'm actually quite disappointed by their attitude to something that must cost them practically nothing.
Now, I'm not saying I'll stop flying them, there's no one else, I realise that. But I'd be much less inclined to drop money for premium based on experiences like this. I have a few more vouchers, then I'm back to cash. Has anyone else experienced similar, is this just National Jet, did I get a bad crew, etc?