Hi HKL,
you are partly right. There has been a lot of abuse regarding the subject of onboard catering. Some spoiled (mosltly local) pilots where demanding only these things.
As a matter of facts few of the local pilots have any manners at all and they think the CS or the F1 is only there to serve them....
Also it is a fact that at QR they need to issue notes before somebody is willing to accept a rule:
EG:
1) the catering thing
2) speed 250 below 10000ft with a no go for any higher speed below 5000ft in any case, even when requested by ATC. Reason for this: some local pilot landing in the middle of a 4000m runway after he totally screwed up his decent planning and he was idle/speed 180 comming over the treshhold!!!!!
3)No more decelerated approaches are recommended!
4) No more bottles of water in the cockpit because a local pilot found out that his bottle of water was stuck underneath his rudder wile attempting a landing with an A330 in LHR!!!!
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In real life there are a lot more of these rules. They openly admit that most of the local pilots are not able to fly raw data approaches! They can only fly the airplane through the box and nothing else!!!!!
On the other hand the cockpit meals are really lousy. We have been eating chicken with vegetables and fish with rice now for over three months so that gives us a reason to ask for something else!!!
My comment was only made to say something about he CEOs attitude. He immidiatly asks to report anybody asking for these things....come on, we are all grown ups, there is no need for this!