As part of the opening of the new Hamad International Airport in Doha today, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker announced that Qatar Airways' third A380 destination would be New York JFK. Now, he hasn't actually announced when the service will launch, but just that it's the third destination. To recap: In April, Qatar Airways…
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I'm so excited for my Middle East/Africa trip next year.. And thanks to your blog I will be flying in style for less!
I have a couple Business Class tickets booked next Spring JFK-DOH. Fingers crossed - the A380 looks great.
My guess is that the QR A380 will make it JFK in the next year. QR loves to copy EK, there is probably pretty good feed at JFK because of Oneworld, and it's one of the better premium O&D markets. They will probably just move back to terminal 4 where they used to be, which has A380 gates.
Qatar Airways used to offer First Class when it flew its 3-cabin A330s to EWR from GVA back in 2007 (first QR route to North America.)
http://www.qatarairways.com/us/en/press-release.page?pr_id=English_Press_release_Jun28_07&locale_id=en_gl
It seems to me the only time people could have speculatively booked First class before the A380 route announcements was for the DOH-CDG QR39/40 flight since the A380 replaced the current A340.
I agree with you though that one of the flights for DOH-LHR or DOH-CDG will get the third A380. As to which flight, I don't know but I'd guess it may be QR1/2 for DOH-LHR from flight number only.