Hi all
I flew BNE-CBR on QF959 last night. Having flown this flight many times, I was looking forward to what is (usually) a pretty good full dinner service. What came out of the cart surprised me. Not a dinner tray, but a pie. Yes, a humble pie, wrapped in that breathable plastic stuff like one you have bought at the footy. No dinner tray, just the pie, a serviette and the grey recycling bag they normally provide for snack services.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind the odd pie every now and then but I have two issues with this. Firstly, when Qantas is advertising this flight as having a hot dinner service, I think this is a little misleading (and was vastly inferior to the hot dinner service I had on the CBR-BNE leg a week earlier - chicken masala- yum!). Secondly, this was a particularly poorly constructed pie which made a damn mess while you were eating it. I had it all over my hands and chunks of it on the tray table. You may say that I need to work on my pie eating skills but I was not the only one having this problem - one of the FAs did several runs up and down the aisle offering additional napkins.
Has anyone else experienced this? Part of me thinks it must have just been a catering issue or something that prevented them being able to load full meals and it was just a one off. But another part of me cant help think this is the lastest 'enhancement' from QF. If it is, it seems absurd to me that QF is reducing their in flight offering at the exact same time as VA/DJ is rapidly improving theirs. Honestly, this pie experience made the whole flight feel like I had bought a 1p flight on Ryanair.
To top it all off my priority tagged bags were among the last onto the belt in CBR. But that is a rant for another day...
I flew BNE-CBR on QF959 last night. Having flown this flight many times, I was looking forward to what is (usually) a pretty good full dinner service. What came out of the cart surprised me. Not a dinner tray, but a pie. Yes, a humble pie, wrapped in that breathable plastic stuff like one you have bought at the footy. No dinner tray, just the pie, a serviette and the grey recycling bag they normally provide for snack services.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind the odd pie every now and then but I have two issues with this. Firstly, when Qantas is advertising this flight as having a hot dinner service, I think this is a little misleading (and was vastly inferior to the hot dinner service I had on the CBR-BNE leg a week earlier - chicken masala- yum!). Secondly, this was a particularly poorly constructed pie which made a damn mess while you were eating it. I had it all over my hands and chunks of it on the tray table. You may say that I need to work on my pie eating skills but I was not the only one having this problem - one of the FAs did several runs up and down the aisle offering additional napkins.
Has anyone else experienced this? Part of me thinks it must have just been a catering issue or something that prevented them being able to load full meals and it was just a one off. But another part of me cant help think this is the lastest 'enhancement' from QF. If it is, it seems absurd to me that QF is reducing their in flight offering at the exact same time as VA/DJ is rapidly improving theirs. Honestly, this pie experience made the whole flight feel like I had bought a 1p flight on Ryanair.
To top it all off my priority tagged bags were among the last onto the belt in CBR. But that is a rant for another day...