View attachment 124485 SYD-PER Friday 27th April, afternoon “lunch” flight. Choice of Maggie Beer Red sparkling or water offered. I knew already but still asked “Is this alcoholic” to then show an unhappy face when told not. The steward told me “Oh common, it’s Maggie Beer, that’s all good stuff!”. Well, as others here have pointed out, it was certainly not “good stuff”.
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Lunch choices were a bit meh because I had that lamb three times in a row now so was a bit over it. Selected the pie instead which was, indeed, a delicious pie but still only a pie (I’m used to pies only at someone’s leaving afternoon tea at work or as a drunken snack at night after a night out- to me, it’s everything but a “full” meal”). The coleslaw that was served with it contained far too many chunks of sellary which is an absolute crime in my eyes but at least they were so big that I could easily pick them all out! The soup I got as a starter tasted as boring as a Cannellini Bean soup sounds which is a shame because usually I like Qantas’ soup offerings. The green salad on the side was extremely uninspired, at least a little piece of tomato or anything but green salad would have been nice as a garnish at least.
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What stroke me odd was the timing of everything but I haven’t been on a Perth flight for a while so maybe it’s normal. It seemed to me as if the crew tried to “draw out” the meal to cover the entire 4+ hours but maybe they were just slack as some of the crew were the really old “beasts” that you don’t get that often anymore these days. One old guy came across as if moving his fingers is alredy too much an ask and one of his female colleagues (with the biggest lip injections i’ve ever seen outside of Hollywood) was outright rude to many of the passengers. Well, wether connected or not, everything took ages between courses so the starter was served around 2 hours into the flight. We did get a drink service first and the Bloody Mary was better than what I remember on Qantas so probably the highlight of the trip: Pre-mix US Bloody Mary from the tin with added Worcester Sauce from a little squeezy pouch and a slice of lemon- wow, haven’t had such a good in-flight Bloody Mary in ages! I was thoroughly impressed with that effort.
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Shortly before landing, crew came through with a desert trolley, very nicely presented like on international flights and I selected the cheese platter which was the usual Qantas Domestic stuff, nice enough cheeses though, especially the Stilton tasted really nice:
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All in all an okay flight which was mostly due to some (not all) crew members being a bit off which is a rare case i’d say. Oh- and about the order of taking the meal choices, no “in order of status” at all here. Crew went down the A aisle first one after another and as I was in 2F I thought I might miss out. Luckily, at the end of the A seats (and randomly some, but not all, of the middle seats), she came around back to 1F and started to go back from there again. Very odd and a reason for me to from now on prefer the “left side” over the “right side” which in the past never was even part of my consideration set. Would be interesting of that’s common on the A330 or just a random outlier if a generally rather odd crew.