About 25 years ago we used to fly regularly to Mrs O's home country, Japan, on Aeroflopt, the only way we could afford with two kids. The food was always served on real plates and drinks in glasses, with metal cutlery. The starter was usually caviar (or something similar).
Once, on return from Tokyo, the staff must have overslept, as they served the meal late and still had the trolleys in the aisles when we landed for the refuelling stop in Moscow!
My son's book of aeroplanes revealed that the maximum range of the aircraft used was exactly the distance between Moscow and Tokyo.
We use Lufthansa or KLM these days, not as exciting but safer I'm sure.