In my opinion Qatar Airways offers the all around best business class experience in the world with their Qsuites product. However, historically one area where the airline has lagged is with inflight Wi-Fi. Up until recently:
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You've been beaten to the chase. All of Qatar's QSuites 777s have Super WiFi, and most of the non-QSuites planes do too. FlyerTalk's complete guide to the Qatar Airways fleet confirms that all QSuites 777s have WiFi, and some non-QSuites 777s have it too - A7-BAP does, at least.
How does it compare to JetBlue's WiFi? I found theirs is the fastest, especially when you consider the entire plane gets free access.
I have taken several Qatar flights (777s with Q Suites) and most of the time I averaged 15 MBPS download speed with very few outages. This has made for some very productive work trips over the past 2 years.
I tried during my flight from MNL-DOH B777 and it was a last minute equipment swap to a Q-Suite plane. Wifi is good during my flight and super fast!
Lucky, can you share your thoughts on which of the two—Air France (by virtue of its first class) or Qatar Airways (in spite of practically not having a first class)—impressed you on this trip? Of course, these are two of your favourite airlines in the world—especially QR, which has the most luxurious A320s of any full-service carrier reviewed on OMAAT (a far cry from AF’s typical European economy product).
Just today I took two flights - one on a Qsuites A350 and a non-Qsuite 777 - both were fitted with Super Wifi and they were seamless (apart from a slight blip passing through India). One thing to note is that streaming services are blocked - think Spotify and Youtube. For good reason, of course, but just a caveat to the 'full access to the internet' statement.
It's not a new type of WiFi, that would be 802.11ax. instead, it's a different type of satellite connection. Quite a big difference.
Last week I was flying DOH-ORD (QSuites) and to be honest Super wifi was nothing to write home about ... cost was just $10 for the flight and must say during the 14 hour flight I was not able to even send or receive one email.. let alone get any browsing or files downloaded/uploaded...
I couldnt even check in for my next flight on an app!
I tried wifi last year on DOH - ARN and it was just as bad.
I am encouraged to know others have had better, more acceptable performance. but two attempts have left me only with a negative experience.
I’ve flown several Qatar flights in the past year. The Wifi on all has been horrible, and I was actually connected maybe 10% of the time. I hope you are right that it is improved now.
Yes Qatar WiFi is super good.
The only catch is, it does not work at all, when it flies over the countries that block WiFi. It is India (quite a big in my flight from the Gulf to Asia) and some other countries. That's not a fault of Qatar Air but one should be aware of it.
All those words and not one mention of the actual speed, average speed, theoretical maximum, or screen shot of you doing a speed test inflight.
Just flown Malaysia to Doha/Doha to London in Q-suites, couldn't connect at all to WiFi during either leg of the flight. To top it off they interrupt the infotainment to advertise how great the WiFi is.
How the heck can someone write an article about "Super WiFi" without showing a proper speedtest from the flight? Or any stats on the speed at all?
I got 12 MBit on a speedtest recently and was able to stream high quality video without problems.
On a recent flight from Doha to Houston - we had the much hyped QSuites but the WiFi never worked a lick the whole flight.
Can anybody tell me if Qatar Airways Boeing 787-8 has super wifi now ? I am travelling from Doha to India.
I recently traveled from Doha to JFK. I had the worst Super Wifi experience. Constantly getting disconnected and never stayed connected for more than 15 minutes at a time.
In 2022 ...
Qatar should rename the wifi service to super SLOW wifi.
Slower than dialup of 300 kbps (when it is working most of the time keeps disconnecting)
Even United has better wifi service !!
I'm on superwifi now. Speed is 20mbps, but a huge number of major social and media sites are blocked, I assume "because the gays".
My VPN provider is also blocked.
When it works, Super WIFI is a great product, especially at $8 per flight leg. I had great speeds on a flight from Houston to Doha. Unfortunately, it seems that they are not allowed to offer the service when flying over India, so for the bulk of my flight from Doha to Ho Chi Minh City, I just received a message that service wasn't available. More time is spent over India on that flight than not, so purchasing it was nearly worthless, even at the low price.