SQ Y Catering to Jakarta

[yflyer]

Flew to Jakarta earlier this week. Had breakfast SIN-CGK and dinner CGK-SIN.

Both meals very good. On both these sectors, you had a choice of either an Asian selection or a Western selection.

Breakfast SIN-CGK on SQ956 (9.25am departure)...



Dinner CGK-SIN on SQ963 (6.10pm departure), Asian-style chicken in a mildly spicy sauce with rice...



You had a choice of red/white wine, beer or soft drinks (and tea/coffee) to accompany your meal.

Even on this very short sector, with a scheduled time 1 hr 45 min, actual flight time closer to 1 hr 20 min, they had a full range of beverages available.

I asked if they had a gin & tonic available (It was a tough work day -- I badly needed a drink), and they brought it to me a few minutes later.



Great catering for such a short sector!

On a related topic, both sectors were flown on SQ's 777's with current regional J seat (2-2-2), and refitted 9-abreast Y seat (brown seat covers over the old blue Y seats).

[ycp81]

With CGK being a high-yielding station and with a huge loyalty base, SQ needs to maintain its standards as the preferred international carrier from CGK.

[FN-GM]

I have always found the food in Y & J (never flown F) very good compared to other airlines. However I do find the food in Y is not enough for myself and im still hungry afterwards.

[726]

my case is always that the food ex-CGK is by far much better than ex-SIN. There has been two instances when the flight were not full from both SIN and CGK, and the meal ex-CGK was carried from SIN. Correct me if I am wrong, but from the smell of it, I can seem to detect that the food was ex-SIN.

[ycp81]

my case is always that the food ex-CGK is by far much better than ex-SIN. There has been two instances when the flight were not full from both SIN and CGK, and the meal ex-CGK was carried from SIN. Correct me if I am wrong, but from the smell of it, I can seem to detect that the food was ex-SIN.

If I am not wrong, other than the night-stop flight, the rest of the flights are double catered ex-SIN.

[orionmiz]

According to my cousin (who used to work as SQ stewardess), the food comes from the departing airport (the galley only have that amount of space to store those food).

It is double-catered only when something happened to the catering company in the airport (e.g. strike occur in CDG catering, hence they have no choice but to bring food for both ex-SIN and ex-CDG from SG catering). This means something have to be sacrificed...

For short flights like CGK that provide light meals, I'm not sure if they double-catered though (forgot to ask about that).

[icn.sg]

CGK-SIN meals are catered ex-SIN (unless it is a night-stop flight, not sure if SQ does that in CGK). You can usually tell where the meal is catered from by the labels and covers on the water and orange juice, and sometimes even butter.

I was in Jakarta just last week as well. Was on GA, and I must say that GA's meals are not inferior to SQ's on this short sector, in fact the GA tray had a little more content.

[orionmiz]

Haha I see.

Hmm... Based on yflyer BKK trip report, the BKK one is not double-catered though...

[icn.sg]

BKK is definitely not double-uplift. It's cheaper to cater ex-BKK.

[726]

i doubt if CGK is double catered from SIN due to the food smells differently - at least in Y class (except for those two instances I mentioned), but correct me if I am wrong.

[MAN Flyer]

i doubt if CGK is double catered from SIN due to the food smells differently - at least in Y class (except for those two instances I mentioned), but correct me if I am wrong.

CGK is double catered from Changi. The other destinations that are double catered are CMB, CCU, DAC, DPS, HAN, KUL and SUB.

[orionmiz]

CGK is double catered from Changi. The other destinations that are double catered are CMB, CCU, DAC, DPS, HAN, KUL and SUB.

Hmm... Thought catering from those airport should be cheaper (based on the countries economy).

[SilverChris]

Hmm... Thought catering from those airport should be cheaper (based on the countries economy).

For KUL I'm not sure how much they'd save with just drinks and a handful of sandwiches...

[MAN Flyer]

Hmm... Thought catering from those airport should be cheaper (based on the countries economy).

But it's not just down to cost, thankfully. It's the website folk who do that...

Just going around buying the cheapest food available is not what one would expect from a so called premium airline. There are a number of items to be considered, some unique to the station as shown by the fact HAN is back catered but SGN is not.

[Short Final]

CGK is still double catered, but may not be for long. SQ is looking at catering out of CGK for all flights now.