eternaltransit

Secrets of the hospitality business part 2 (the first being that the glasswear makes the bubbles look nice not the quality of drink):

Any high volume bar/restaurant will have a gas refill system to save on wastage where air is extracted from a bottle and CO2 put in - champagne is done with pressurised stoppers.

Those systems are powered by Sodastream gas bottles.

(Coravin uses Argon but it's the same principle)

And no, no-one can tell the difference, including those customers who purport to be experts - you can nudge people's perception by using good glasswear with micro-imperfections creating a lot of pearling: most people equate a good number of bubbles with good champagne (people literally think it tastes better).

Remember with food and beverage, perception - presentation - is reality

GlassMan36

Just what I needed to know before my first J experience on EK!

m3red

EK don't refil champagne and it all gets thrown away at the end of the flight (if there is any left)

FlyWithKaeMarie

I have mixed feelings regarding this. On one hand, if it's unused there's not much of an issue - at least they're not wasting? On another hand, Emirates could afford to be a little wasteful at the risk of unhygienic germs - regardless if used or unused.

FlyWithKaeMarie

I also feel as though their service over the last year has gone down significantly.

WalterSFO

I have only flown Emirates a couple of times(both times from UK to Tokyo via Dubai). Their business class was not that impressive to me. The seats are great, but the flight attendants seemed more interested in making videos that they shared with friends.(just "google emirates flight attendants life" on youtube... caution, many are borderline NSFW as they feature the FAs in really skimpy bikinis that will put women on Miami beach to shame... so skimpy, in fact, that YouTube require log-in to view them)

DYKWIA

Wow, that's terrible. Flight attendants enjoying themselves in their spare time!

Whatever next?

eternaltransit

Wait, were they making videos on board during work?

Firing offence and unacceptable.

Or was the fact that these videos exist on YouTube detailing activities happening outside of work somehow detracting from the in-flight experience

genuinely confused.

FlyWithKaeMarie

I'm a little confused myself lol but I was mostly talking about their economy service. From DXB > SYD just in March I experienced some terrible service.

I think the only good part was when I requested to be moved from the family of literally 10 because of the horrid cough I was developing - mainly because I was sick of their dirty looks.

I guess if they want to have fun - go for your life, but don't be unprofessional. I myself have personally never witnessed this though.

DYKWIA

You were developing a cough due to dirty looks from FAs?

FlyWithKaeMarie

HAHA! No the large family I was seated with were giving me dirty looks. The flight from BKK to SYD was quite empty anyway so after 14 hours stuck with me from DXB to BKK (where I made sure to cocoon myself under the blanket - I guess suffocating was the most courteous thing I can do for this family until BKK) I asked the FAs if I could be moved to a more secluded part of the plane which wasn't very hard on that following leg considering it was empty