Originally Posted by
Asturias56
Back when QANTAS only flew 747's - wet Saturday night out of Christchurch for Sydney - 12 adult pax and 6 kids. Everyone moved to the front, the only first Class passenger came along and the party started. They left slave class with only emergency lighting and let the kids play there......................
Lovely story..
Reminds of a time when I was flying London to Sydney on a Qantas 747. At that time, Qantas slipped in Bangkok.
So far so good, but the crew who got on in Bangkok were in worse condition than the ones who left the plane. They were wrecked. I was the only passenger on the top deck. The purser came and said "We're supposed to serve you breakfast after takeoff, so I'll do that. But then I need a snooze. Let me know what you'd like to drink after your breakfast, and I'll bring you a case of it. Once I've had my snooze, you can have anything you like,"
I was into Drambuie at the time, so sure enough, he served breakfast, then turned up with about a dozen miniatures of Drambuie, then went for his snooze. Once he'd had his snooze, I had 1:1 passenger cabin crew ratio.