Pleasantly surprised

[kamchatsky]

Hi all, I have to admit, I have not stepped into Qantas plane for a while, in fact, since 2010. So I have no idea about changes on QF aircraft.

However I stepped on to one on Good Friday from SYD-ADL on QF J. The J seats are new and with leather, and they all have AVOD built in. Looking at Y section, it seems all have AVOD as well. Is it now the norm for all QF domestic flights? Or I happened to get the good plane? My last flight with them was on plane where there was TV dropped from ceiling every X rows.

The food was actually pretty good. I had a salad (due to us on row 3 where all the good food ran out) but my son got the chicken sandwich which actually tasted quite good.

Also I went to the SYD Domestic J lounge for the first time, and I was actually quite happy with the food offering there. Seems to be a step up from Qantas Club .....

So is it me, or QF Domestic have improved dramatically, or I am just lucky this time?

Now i didn't come back to SYD on QF because we actually went from ADL-HKG on CX J, and then later HKG-SYD on CX J also. But we did try the Qantas Club at ADL and it is certainly much larger than the VA Lounge at ADL, but the food is pretty similar to VA lounge though.

 

[Princess Fiona]

QF J is pretty good IME. Your aircraft was one of the re-furb Boeing Sky Interiors (referred to on here as BSI). The food and service is consistently decent in every aircraft IMO.

 

[kamchatsky]

QF J is pretty good IME. Your aircraft was one of the re-furb Boeing Sky Interiors (referred to on here as BSI). The food and service is consistently decent in every aircraft IMO.

Thank you Princess Fiona, just wondering, are all QF Domestic going to be re-furb to BSI? Or only some of them? If it is all, I would be pretty impressed.

Now the only reason I flew QF was because there were plenty of CX J award to HKG for family of 4 at the time of booking, and I have relatives and friends in ADL to visit .... But if QF J Domestic is always this good I think I will fly QF more once again.

 

[mannej]

QF J is pretty good IME. Your aircraft was one of the re-furb Boeing Sky Interiors (referred to on here as BSI). The food and service is consistently decent in every aircraft IMO.

PF, not all of the 738's with seatback IFE have the BSI interior. Saying that, on Good Friday it would seem that the SYD-ADL had a mixed bag, with a number of BSI flights, a number of re-furbs (BYO device for Q-Streaming) and a number of the Millennium a/c's (drop down screens) were on duty that day.

 

[Princess Fiona]

PF, not all of the 738's with seatback IFE have the BSI interior. Saying that, on Good Friday it would seem that the SYD-ADL had a mixed bag, with a number of BSI flights, a number of re-furbs (BYO device for Q-Streaming) and a number of the Millennium a/c's (drop down screens) were on duty that day.

No but they all have leather J seats. That's what I picked up on

 

[mannej]

Thank you Princess Fiona, just wondering, are all QF Domestic going to be re-furb to BSI? Or only some of them? If it is all, I would be pretty impressed.

Now the only reason I flew QF was because there were plenty of CX J award to HKG for family of 4 at the time of booking, and I have relatives and friends in ADL to visit .... But if QF J Domestic is always this good I think I will fly QF more once again.

The BSI is the new Boeing Interior product for the 737 range. I don't believe there is any plans to retrofit the current fleet without the BSI, however the 737 is going through a re-fresh currently, which adds an extra row in Y, and refreshing the J cabin. Personal IFE will be way of a BYO device for those aircraft without the AVOD currently installed.

More information can be found here - QANTAS TO REFRESH BOEING 737 FLEET - Qantas News Room

No but they all have leather J seats. That's what I picked up on

Whilst correct, so do all of the 737's with seatback IFE (including the non-BSI AVOD birds).

 

[moa999]

Qantas domestic currently has 67 Australian based 737s (excluding the 8 Jetconnect aircraft)
29 of these aircraft have seatback IFE of which 21 are BSI aircraft (the BSI aircraft have the curved ceiling panels and the LED lighting)

The current refurb will add Q-Streaming (byo device) to the remaining aircraft (as well as the extra row, plastic divider and new seat materials) - currently 26 of 38 complete and I would predict all 737s to have some form of Personal IFE by end of June

 

[njba]

I had my first BSI experience a month or so ago. It really makes a difference in how appealing it is to travel in a 737 (that is, it goes from scrapping doggy doo off your shoe levels to scrapping squashed bugs off your shoe levels).

 

[RichardMEL]

Let's be clear - the BSI comes from the manufacturer (Boeing, obviously) and came into production of the 737NG's at some point (I can't pin down an exact date) so all QF deliveries post that have it, those before do not. A refit to this spec won't occur IIRC. This is quite separate to the seating layout (29/30 row), IFE, Q streaming etc which is the customer (QF in this case) choice, and QF is moving to standardise(kinda) the 737 fleet.

my 2 cents

 

[eminere]

Let's be clear - the BSI comes from the manufacturer (Boeing, obviously) and came into production of the 737NG's at some point (I can't pin down an exact date) so all QF deliveries post that have it, those before do not. A refit to this spec won't occur IIRC. This is quite separate to the seating layout (29/30 row), IFE, Q streaming etc which is the customer (QF in this case) choice, and QF is moving to standardise(kinda) the 737 fleet.

In 2011 with the delivery of VH-VZT.