QF826 - BNE-DRW 26/6
SDT: 2120 - SFT: 4:15 - Seat 2F
The food in the lounge was dreadful, no towels available either. Despite the excess of TV’s not one was showing the state of origin on Sunday night. Rookie error asking the bar staff if they could change it to which I got a “No.” Already having been scrutinised by the lounge dragon I couldn’t be bothered asking about changing the channel. Fortunately there were quite a few FIFO workers there who definitely didn’t share my social anxiety. After several strongly worded conversations to the staff on channel was eventually changed. Anyways onto the flight.
I was almost last on, probably my best boating experience with QANTAS
. For the first time since the pandemic started I got a “welcome back,” instead of a welcome. Not sure why that stopped but anyways. Apparently the captain flying the return had gotten sick as another pilot was in 2D heading up to operate the return. No pre departure drink was offered. Santos pretzels and almonds after take off with a drink. 3 options for dinner, Pork with potatoes, Lasagne or a “rice,” salad which was actually the grain salad and only corrected once it became the only offering available. Everyone before me opted for the pork 1A-2C. As such I had the lasagne, I actually had high hopes given the overall good reviews on here but it was dreadful. It looked very good but was just mush. I only ate a few bites, it came with grain bread and a raspberry fondant cake. I believe ice cream was offered but I slept for most of the flight. The most interesting part of the flight was that we arrived at a non aerobridge bay at Darwin, bay 4 is closed and a virgin flight was delayed.
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