While Qatar Airways has A380s, they have only 10 of them in their fleet, with no further A380s on order. As a point of comparison, Emirates has over 100 of them in their fleet. While Emirates flies A380s to all kinds of destinations, Qatar Airways has to be much more selective with where they send…
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As an alcoholic currently residing in Germany with a boat load of AAdvantage miles; this is great news!
I just got to make sure not to piss my pants like I did on the inaugural ATLANTA Doha flight.
Will be returning from Europe next August and may route through DOH just to fly QR F. However AA's site is showing nothing on QR FRA-DOH any time in August; only returning results for BA and RJ. Same for BA's site - only BA and RJ. Strange
Would be great to see some direct comparison of first vs business on the same planes/routes within a short period of time for those of us trying to decide if it's worth the upgrade from business on various airlines.
Is it possible to book a QR award via BA on mixed cabins? Have a bunch of Avios and was planning on flying IAH-DOH-MUC J, but with Frankfurt being so close, it would be awesome to fly F to FRA instead of J into MUC.
Before the introduction of Q-suites, you laughed when the Qatar CEO suggested there would soon be no need for first class. Now you are saying it yourself
Still baffled at how/why they fly an A380 to CAN, is anyone here able to explain?
@Lucky, we booked our September 2019 honeymoon flights with AAdvantage miles (thx Citi!)FRA-->MLE specifically for the Q-suites. At the time of the booking we had the 777seat map, but we're now on the A380.
Qatar's other Q-Suite European destinations don't work within our wedding plans and switching to the earlier flight from Frankfurt on the 777 would give us too long of a stopover in Doha.
We used to fly QR frequently prior the blockade (we're residing in the GCC), and I still have roughly 30k miles and silver status in my QR account. I'm unfortunately out of AAdvantage miles after this booking.
QR is showing award availability for first class on our dates, which would be awesome for the honeymoon, but I would need to buy 40k AAdvantage miles at a cost of $1,100. If it weren't the honeymoon I wouldn't even consider this as an option as I don't think $1k is worth the added benefit of F on a 6hr QR flight.
I was thinking of writing to QR or posting on their twitter page to see if I can play the honeymoon card, but in my experience that rarely works anymore these days.
Any creative suggestions here?
@ Alex
“I was thinking ... to see if I can play the honeymoon card, but in my experience that rarely works anymore these days.”
Dear God: how many honeymoons have you had that that card no longer works for you? 🙂
No-one cares about honeymoons anymore @Alex. Also if you care to look up the cost of a revenue ticket, you wouldn't be agonising over spending $1100 on some miles to achieve your dream flights.
"With just about any other airline I’d say a plane swap to an A380 is great news."
Including Air France, right! Oh, wait...
I’d be interested in LAX to FRA with a layover in DOH for a day or two. With AA miles would I have to book two separate ticket with a layover or not?
I just got two tickets DOH-FRA in F for our honeymoon, one more stop (flying to London) but I think it's worth it!! So excited!!
The worst is that, as the flight is at 8am, we are not going to have enough time to enjoy the Al Safwa lounge....
I'm really looking forward to my first taste of Qatar J. I've booked using Qantas FF points, IAD-DOH-SYD, with 777 Q Suite followed by A380.
My question is, once booked as a Qantas FF award ticket, is there a way of upgrading the 2nd leg (DOH-SYD A380) to F, using either cash or Qantas points? Can't seem to find any info, any tips would be appreciated!