In summary, I was really disgusted and disappointe...
In summary, I was really disgusted and disappointed in the service from Qantas service crew. I ve taken budget airlines and many other national carriers, but had never experienced anything like what I had experienced that day. It was the start of my holiday and Simon ruined it for me.
1. At first meal service (dinner), while passing the food tray to my partner sitting next to me, bread roll fell on lap, Simon didn t even say sorry or attempt to help me clear up the mess. I m perfectly fine with accidents like that happening but totally not fine if it was conveniently ignored like that.
2. Simon threw cutlery packs on my tray table and walk past. My partner and I looked up in shock, I thought it was an accident slipping off his hands or sth but no, he just left. What a nice way to start a meal.
3. At second meal service (breakfast), we were served our meal, with hot coffee on our tray table alr, but the front row passenger still had their seats reclined. At this point, the plane was experiencing some turbulence so we were worried the hot coffee might spill on us. We waited for some time to see if they will upright their seats on their own but they didn t. So, we tried to ask Simon to tell them to upright their seats but was ignored (when he definitely heard our excuse me-ss). Then finally after some time, he told the people in front while saying to us yes yes give me a chance to tell them yea? If he acknowledged our requests the first time, we won t have to try asking multiple times right? We repeated ourselves thinking he couldn t hear us. He could have given a head nod or sth to acknowledge that he heard us, but he chose not to and acted passive aggressive like we were just too impatient.
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This was on our flight back from Mel-Sin on 11th Nov. After our previous bad flight experience, we already had very low expectations for this Qantas flight.
1. I had a used headphone in my seat pocket. When I asked for a new one, the service crew took it and didn t come back with a new one. I waited and had to ask another crew for a new headphone.
2. Apparently we have a learning service crew on our aisle. At first meal service, the service on our aisle was so slow, the other aisle had finished service and was helping out on our aisle from the other end. By the time meal service reached my row, there was just beef and chicken salad left. I don t eat beef due to religion so had no choice but to take the chicken salad though i d prefer sth hot. The chicken salad was bad, couldn t eat it at all. Basically really annoyed because i literally saw 3 vegetarian meals passed from the meal trolley on my aisle to the the trolley service crew just before my turn. If only they hadn t taken forever to serve, i d have gotten my meal. The service crew just said, oh there s no more vegetarian and you don t eat beef, so take the chicken salad. Next time you should add in meal preference when booking the flight to make sure you have your preferred meal. Well, I d have done that if I had known the selections for meal were so limited- always a beef dish, always a salad and a vegetarian dish. Maybe Qantas can do better in market research to know what their customers prefer, and ensure better allocation of different meal options, or simply train their crew better before serving the actual flight.