With every major airline in the world restructuring to minimise costs, so did Qantas.
We had this service ready to launch the very first city flyer and had to put on hold while the rest of the aviation world fell apart. Now we have the profit levels and market share we are happy with, we have rewarded the customers and listened to there complaints.
The meals are even 30% larger. I operated a 737-800 last night from PER to SYD and the business class service took 2 hrs for the 5 courses. Every pax left the a/c very happy with the new product. Crew have never worked so hard !!!.
And no ABC we didn't rip it off AN, it wasn't that hard, it's the same as our old Tasman service.