Of course that is another thing that was way better back ''the way we were'', the catering, but I guess you get what you pay for, catering is almost non existant now domestically but the fares are way cheaper.
Back in the day with Ansett when we used to fly everywhere on staff discount, not always but usually upgraded to first class, and some great catering.
We Engineers too when we met the overnight aircraft used to share the leftovers with the other Staff.
Reminded me too on that Ansett contract with RMA in Vietnam, we used to fly Hanoi-Moscow-Hanoi (only aircraft they had that could do it non stop), had both the worst catering I have EVER seen, out of Hanoi, and the best I have ever seen out of Moscow catered by Aeroflot. When we got back to Hanoi we used to save any leftovers to use back in Saigon.