Qantas Business Class to Sydney
Qantas 787 Business Class from Auckland to Sydney
Glad to be heading home this morning... with a 3 hour Qantas 787 Business Class flight to Sydney and then a 14 hour Qantas A380 First Class flight to LAX. My last encounter with Qantas was nearly 6 years ago. Sadly Qantas has not improved.
Apparently the feeling is mutual...
For some strange reason, Qantas has a First Class Lounge at AKL. Not sure why, because it's nothing special and indeed, the Business Class Lounge seemed much more inviting.
"First Class" Lounge...
Business Class Lounge...
At T-60, I dumped the lounges and headed to the gate.
Qantas boarding continues to be a joke. Despite a 45 minute delay, clueless AKL gate agents made no announcement or provided any explanation, even after I admonished them “why not tell people what’s going on?”. When boarding did start, Priority boarding was not enforced as before.
To make matters worse, gate agents started boarding a 2nd “Economy" line long before dozens of Priority passengers boarded. But of course.
Oh yeah, I've seen this cabin before, the one that turned Mrs. SFO777 into a "don't ever book me on this POS airline again". LOL.
Unfriendly and clueless cabin crew, who scurried back and forth around the cabin taking meal orders in some kind of crazed priority system. Neither my Qantas First Class ticket nor One World Emerald status got me any priority and I was pretty much the last passenger to be offered my choice. “If you don’t like it, speak to management”. At least the cabin was modern compared the A380 relic that I would get to LAX. And despite it being 2023, Qantas has still not heard of Wifi. This is going to be a long day.
So happy to see this is a plastic bottle blanket. I couldn't survive the flight thinking that I'm harming the environment by using a real blanket. If you are so concerned about the environment, do us all a favor and stop flying.
Fortunately I brought my own movies as Qantas movie options were mediocre.
Showtime: Qantas Business Class style...
Except for the dopey tomato, the dish looked pretty good.
Sadly, the quiche had the consistency of a hockey puck as I almost broke the knife trying to cut the thing.
OK, this part was pretty cool. I nice view of Sydney on our approach.
