SQ Y Catering to Jakarta

[Short Final]

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.

I agree. When in Y, sometimes the meal isn't enough. Sometimes I explain to the crew that I am still hungry and ask if they have any extra meals and they bring one to me. There's always a spare Y meal here or there.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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).

[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.

[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.

[icn.sg]

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

[orionmiz]

Haha I see.

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

[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]

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).

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.