Qatar Airways' New A380 Destinations: Sydney & Guangzhou!

Does American allow one way US to Guangzhou through Doha on one ticket?

@ Shawn -- They don't. That would require two awards.

Any hope to see the 380 on US route ?

I found out about the change from 77W to A380 on the SYD route earlier today. Now looking forward to experience the QR A380 on SYD-DOH in October on my longest flight ever (14h40') 🙂

Thanks Ben! I was able to change our biz seats in Jan to F.. Bought miles at the discount best 1k I've ever spent!!! So excited it will be my first a380!

Actually, longest QR A380 flight is DOH-BKK, which beats LHR by 24 miles. 😉

After flying Etihad's A380 on the AUH-SYD route in F Class, I'm not sure how I can top that experience.

I'm thinking QR will fly the 380 to a Delta hub if it ever brings it to the US.

Have you seen they've delayed the longest flight in the world to Auckland again. They don't have the aircraft to operate the route while they keep denying the A350 deliveries

http://www.ausbt.com.au/qatar-airways-plans-a350-flights-for-perth-delays-auckland-launch?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=flipper&utm_campaign=home-flipper

@Maxie, Ben said Qatar will be operating an a380 to Atlanta this quarter.

i think they had no choice, especially with competition from Emirates, Qantas and Etihad flying down under with the A380 , they needed to up their game and compete,

@JJ-Na only for the inaugural, I think... that hardly counts

I wasn't able to book TPE-HKG-CAN-DOH-MLE because of MPM. Lame.

I flew DOH-BKK in J on the 380 the other day. Very nice but not really thrilled with some aspects of the seat: the window seat is awkwardly placed: you have to lean across a bit far to get a view ( didn't matter much as this was almost all darkness 2050-0650). Also, the retractable armrest gives the sense of being a bit too exposed to the aisle. Frankly I prefer the arrangement on AY and VN A350.
Still : a great lounge in Doha, lovely crew and I would not hesitate to do it again ( on a super cheap ex Cairo fare).

The reason Qatar hasn't increased their frequency serving Guangzhou is that the PRC Government is limiting ME3 from having too much market share (aka more than one daily) in PEK, PVG, and CAN, the main hubs of the Chinese BIG 3. Nevertheless, since Guangzhou is the main East Asian trading hub to Middle East & Africa, the market here is large enough for QR to send in an A380. In addition, recently Egyptair has also announced that they will increase their service to Guangzhou from 5 weekly to 1 daily, using their 77W.

Correction to the previous post: actually EK has twice daily services to PVG and PEK. However, the flight right restriction on ME3 at the three major Chinese airports does exist.

Why is QR874 Doha to Guangzhou listed as "(+1)"? It leaves after midnight and arrives same day, so...

Next September, I have a ticket from DOH to BKK in first class on the a380.

Without notice and without refund of money have changed me to business class on the B777. I'm quite unhappy and disgusted with this policy changes

To have the a380 for these new China routes, Qatar have reduced their A380 service from Doha to BKK to once daily (evening flight) like the above poster, Qatar never informed me and although I am travelling with a companion, Qatar decided to seat us in different rows of the cabin on the 777! How inconsiderate! You would expect the airline to make the effort with their business class passengers! Surely they knew of this change months in advance buy they still let you but a ticket for the a380, then change it! Let's home we are not downgraded due to a fully booked business cabin and our tickets being business saver fare effectively makes us first for the chop.

@Brad Hearn:

Why the fear of getting downgraded? The A380 has 44 seats in C, wheras the 777 you are likely gonna get will have 42 seats in C.
I'm sure there will be a reasonable solution in case the A380 was indeed sold out to the last seat in C (and F).

Also, have you tried changing your seat assignments online or by calling?

@david- at the time of posting, there were no 2 seats next to each other for me and my travel companion....luckily someone's moved so have now got 2 seats together! Yay! I'm really looking forward to the A380 but equally excited to experience the 777 product!

The version of the 777 I'm travelling on only has 24 seats in business and with all seats showing as taken I was worried about an offload! Luckily there are 2 Qatar 777's leaving at the same time DOHA-BKK so hopefully we would only be shifted to the other aircraft in the event of overbooking....I feel sorry for those with F tickets who will now be downgraded to business lol

Does anyone know what Qatar does with passengers who are downgraded from F to J/C? I don't think a few miles in your account is fair compensation!