I flew HKG-SYD QF128 Sept 4th. Although I have booked about 8 segments in PE, this is the first time I had flown it. All the other times I had either been operationally upgraded or upgraded with points. No complaint here.

So when I actually got a PE boarding pass I was keen to try it.

Very sadly dissappointed. I certainly could not identify the two staff that were 'dedicated to our cabin'. After waiting over 30 minutes for service (no attendent present in the cabin at all) I decided that drinks were self serve and helped myself to the J bar. But I had to get up for every drink.

No offer to top up coffee etc, only one drinks round in an 8 hour flight. Everything seemed like too much trouble.

Then to make it worse there was a huge amount of cabin crew/trolley traffic passing through the cabin at the start of the flight - but no service.

Is it possible the more you move forward in the plane the more the famous Qantas variability becomes. The J service into HKG a week before was extra good - and I reported those responsible to Qantas Feedback.

So my question is, does this very talked up PE really exist - or is this a forum of Qantas Apologists?