Originally Posted by
G-CIVC
The pressing issue is manpower. On this flight the first meal wrapped up just short of three hours (apparently the 'benchmark' that CX ISD expects), largely smooth ~1.5 hours for the 2nd meal, but this was just because 9 crew in total helped out.
For the first meal service, was that 3 hours from take off, or three hours from when they first started serving?
For the breakfast, usually they will start breakfast 2 hours before landing - was that still the case here?