Qantas Business Class meals & menus

[MEL_Traveller]

I noticed that QR is also pouring Duval-Leroy as it’s non-rosé option on its Asian/Australian routes at the moment, so I tried it today on CGK-DOH.

Despite being poured from an identical looking bottle to the one I saw in the Qantas galley (though to be fair I didn’t see it being poured - so there’s a chance that what they served pre-departure on the ground was something else, though the crew said otherwise), this tastes completely different and vastly superior.

Was it a bad bottle on QF or did someone do a cheeky bait and switch for the PDB?

Likely a bad bottle

QF don’t swap the champagnes/sparkling wines for cost reasons in business class.

 

[SYD]

Likely a bad bottle

QF don’t swap the champagnes/sparkling wines for cost reasons in business class.

Yep, probably corked.

Years ago, flying UA SYD to USA, the PDB bubbles were corked. I mentioned it to the FA who seemed to have no idea what I was talking about.

 

[RooFlyer]

Freshly squeezed off site somewhere.

Freshly squeezed from the carton.

... and the other comments; it tasted like 'real' orange juice, not like you get from a carton or in a hotel. I was very surprised and asked for a refill.

 

[Kangol]

I noticed that QR is also pouring Duval-Leroy as it’s non-rosé option on its Asian/Australian routes at the moment, so I tried it today on CGK-DOH.

Despite being poured from an identical looking bottle to the one I saw in the Qantas galley (though to be fair I didn’t see it being poured - so there’s a chance that what they served pre-departure on the ground was something else, though the crew said otherwise), this tastes completely different and vastly superior.

Was it a bad bottle on QF or did someone do a cheeky bait and switch for the PDB?

Brut reserve or another of their vintage varieties?
QF have served Femme de Champagne in F before.
Huge difference compared to their NV.
There's a possibility QR is serving a prestige cuvee (ie. the FdC as mentioned), so it's not an apples to apples comparison.

 

[VPS]

I had this recently on CBR-BNE on QF1950 in J on E190, scheduled for 1315 (ish) departure but left late. I was in 3E - which is actually only 5 seats into business (because row 1 only has a single seat) and the meal was lamb pie and peas. They had run out by the time they reached me so I was offered an economy meal “if there are any spare” or a cheese plate. I said to FA that I thought this was pretty poor for a lunch time flight to run out with still 5 people to serve and she said it was because so many people had received upgrades to J on this flight. I was on a fully paid fare so I was pretty unimpressed.

I submitted a complaint to QF, not expecting much but making the point that the flight was clearly under catered, that it was a lunch time flight so hardly surprising that people would want lunch, and that if it was indeed correct that I had missed a meal because of upgrades I would be upset about it. Further that if this was not the case I had been fobbed off with falsehood I would be upset about it too.

Imagine my surprise to receive a genuine response (not AI, but a real person judging by style and tone and that it did not just parrot back “we know you are upset about *fill in your own exact words from the complaint*) and offering 10,000 points as compensation. Probably worth more than the pie!

I'd be seriously annoyed about that especially as you were not an op up