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Originally Posted by jackiedada
(Post 28980117)
Exactly! The other thing that I noticed was that the F bar was 'Completely Empty' on EK500 - I mean not even a sandwich. Not sure if this is how it is on short haul flights, but having a bar that is completely devoid of anything isn't a good sight and doesn't help the F experience.
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Just returned from my first trip to Australia, lucky or daft enough, to have 5 legs in First. Nice little box of chocolates offered every time without asking!
I think some of you guys have been spoiled. Never flown with Emirates before find I have got a "Gold Card" on my return home to the UK, what advantage does that give me? |
Originally Posted by hazban
(Post 28980745)
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I think some of you guys have been spoiled. Never flown with Emirates before find I have got a "Gold Card" on my return home to the UK, what advantage does that give me? |
Originally Posted by hazban
(Post 28980745)
Just returned from my first trip to Australia, lucky or daft enough, to have 5 legs in First. Nice little box of chocolates offered every time without asking!
I think some of you guys have been spoiled. Never flown with Emirates before find I have got a "Gold Card" on my return home to the UK, what advantage does that give me? Has anyone else noticed the Y food trays now have the hot meal on the left? It's annoying |
Originally Posted by skywardhunter
(Post 28980903)
Here I am doing 40-50 sectors a year in Y to barely make Gold...
Has anyone else noticed the Y food trays now have the hot meal on the left? It's annoying Seriously - why would the position be changed from right to left? Though you could turn the tray through 180 degrees and voila! |
Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28982439)
EK still serve a hot meal in Y :D
Seriously - why would the position be changed from right to left? Though you could turn the tray through 180 degrees and voila! |
Originally Posted by hazban
(Post 28980745)
. . . . find I have got a "Gold Card" on my return home to the UK, what advantage does that give me?
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Originally Posted by skywardhunter
(Post 28982507)
Turn it 180 and you have the water, appetizer and dessert at the front. Being right handed it is easier for the meal to be in the right. It's an arbitrary change but it was always consistently on the bottom right of the tray and now consistently (handful of flights) on the left (including the second hot meal on the flight I was just on after I posted the previous comment). Cabin crew hadn't noticed when I asked. Might be random coincidence.
Wouldn't changing the layout would require a change in SOPs for catering and the tray assembly. Strange though that the crew had not noticed, given their training and numerous times they would have performed the task and (previously) put the hot meal onto the RH side. Wich way round are they trays in the service trolley - pulled out with the right hand and then hot meal added with left hand to the (new) LH side gap? |
Originally Posted by skywardhunter
(Post 28982507)
Being right handed it is easier for the meal to be in the right.
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Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28982732)
You hadn't ordered a LH SPML? ;)
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Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28982722)
Interesting. Anyone with a catering insight?
Wouldn't changing the layout would require a change in SOPs for catering and the tray assembly. Strange though that the crew had not noticed, given their training and numerous times they would have performed the task and (previously) put the hot meal onto the RH side. Wich way round are they trays in the service trolley - pulled out with the right hand and then hot meal added with left hand to the (new) LH side gap? The crew then just put a hot meal in the gap - I doubt this change merited a service manual update! |
Originally Posted by eternaltransit
(Post 28983187)
Tray assembly is set by Flight Catering - they leave a gap.
The crew then just put a hot meal in the gap - I doubt this change merited a service manual update! Service manual wouldn't probably updated - but seasoned crew should still notice (especially when asked by a pax) that suddenly the hot meal goes onto the opposite side of the tray. |
Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28983567)
Indeed - but if flight catering changes the tray assembly in this way, then their procedures will have changed, and for a reason. Question is, why?
Service manual wouldn't probably updated - but seasoned crew should still notice (especially when asked by a pax) that suddenly the hot meal goes onto the opposite side of the tray. |
Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28983567)
Indeed - but if flight catering changes the tray assembly in this way, then their procedures will have changed, and for a reason. Question is, why?
Service manual wouldn't probably updated - but seasoned crew should still notice (especially when asked by a pax) that suddenly the hot meal goes onto the opposite side of the tray. With EK, many things don't have solid reasoning behind it :D |
Originally Posted by XXTSGR
(Post 28983567)
Indeed - but if flight catering changes the tray assembly in this way, then their procedures will have changed, and for a reason. Question is, why?
Service manual wouldn't probably updated - but seasoned crew should still notice (especially when asked by a pax) that suddenly the hot meal goes onto the opposite side of the tray. |
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