The new F is mostly a cost reduction move by QF. The seat is significantly better (it is installed with the skybed refit on 744s). The amenity kit and PJs are more stylish but about the same cost as the old (however they are a nice change). Everything else is a cost saving and it shows, with awful wines and even the sacred steak sandwich has been eliminated on half the flights! Now that is cheap! No Krug, no decent wine, serving Para port (at AUD 20 a bottle), and now no steak sandwich. QF feels it has a monopoly on its routes -- this is why I am now flying CX to Australia exclusively, whether from US or Europe. Probably others are doing so to, look at all the new flights and larger planes that CX is using on its Australian routes.