Qatar Airways' CEO, Akbar Al Baker, is no stranger to ridiculous soundbites. If there were an airline CEO worthy of a reality TV show, it would no doubt be His Excellency. I mean, I think this clip from last year's Farnborough Air Show perfectly sums up what you can expect from him: But via Flightglobal,…
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Lucky!
Heard news that the QR F "Al-Safwa" Lounge is open in Doha, announced by Al-Baker himself. Do you have any further info on that by chance?
Give the guy a 7 for brutal honesty. As Qatar receives their 80 A350's, many airlines will feel the squeeze in profit margins. All those carriers that bought cargo limited A380's may feel foolish competing against a much more efficient model. Buyer's remorse more likely than salted wounds.
@ILDC - they called it Al-Safwa? That's Arabic for something like "the top 0.5%" or the "crème de la crème". very classy!
In a conversation in Berlin during ITB, HE mentioned end of April as the opening date for the Al-Safwa Lounge. Nothing less, nothing more.
@ ILDC -- Will have a post about this shortly, but as noted by Roger above, it will only open in late-April.
Well, I would suggest this gentleman to do a nightflight BC on one of his A330's. While the 777 and 380 are very comfortable, the 330 is surely not because of a major designflaw in the seats. While OK for lounging, going from that position to angled 'flat', the footrest is actually going DOWN, while the upper part of the seat is going down as well and the midsection of the seat goes UP. While the then resulting position may be relevant for those intending to make a porn movie, nobody sleeps in such an awkward position, and thus sleep is impossible. For this kind of bright designs I always think the first step to a solution is stripping in those who designed and selected the seat for a healthy 8 to 10 hours.
Hi Ben,
I'm in Bangkok and I happen to be watching CNN. Richard Quest's Business Traveller show was on and saw you being interviewed by him on the inaugural A350 flight from Doha to Frankfurt. Just thought I'd share...
After having read this soundbite sized article I still have no idea what you're talking about. You seem to be really hung up monitoring everything this guy has to say without explaining why anyone else would care.
Rather than join the reality television groupie brigade I'd be curious to hear you take on this story...
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/05/ryan-pate-facebook-comments_n_6806336.html
Thoughs?