Hello from Doha! My dad and I aretaking a quick round the world trip(he doesnt know where were going). After flying Etihad’s Boeing 787 first class from Washington to Abu Dhabi, we made the short hop to Doha in Qatar Airways’ Boeing 737 MAX first class (really business class, but on short haul flights it’s…
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Great review, as always, and thanks for sharing.
You write: The only other thing that made the premium cabin experience different is that there’s an espresso machine onboard these planes, so you can’t enjoy an espresso or cappuccino. Hardly a big problem on a 200-mile flight at 2AM!
Did you mean to say "there isnt" an espresso machine? The way it's written indicates there IS an espresso machine.
You have said time and again that QR has the best short-haul business class in the world. Can you make a comparison of such airlines and where doesSQ stand?
This route will be equivalent of SIN-KUL distance wise. SQ provides no menu, limited drink choices, and a cold sandwich on this route. So that makes QR more superior, albeit being sold as “First Class”.
Sure thing! Great review - looking forward to seeing the rest. Enjoy your trip!
Of course SQ is going to fall short there: I got only a cup of apple juice on a SIN–KUL flight. I’m not asking who can do 40-minute flights better; I’m talking about the overall A320/737 product of these carriers, and there SQ’s 737 MAX is I suppose one of the best. I bet TK will be right up there too.
It looks like that bus only has 6 seats - it would be amusing if there was a full cabin and two "first class" passengers had to stand...but maybe there are more seats behind the camera, haha
Now the 2x Avios Qatar redemption article the other day makes more sense.
10 hours on First Class on the a380 should be nice!
My Guess is you are checking out the new QR lounge then heading to Perth in QR F!
I have taken two short-haul QR flights first class (business class actually), DOH-Amman and DOH-Riaydh - phenomenal experience. And since I was flying first class, I got to spend 4-5 hours at the Al Sfawa first class lounge in Doha.
These buses are great, but too extravagant to be honest esp. when I compare it with my first class experience in the US, after my AA trips. If there are more than 6 passengers, they send a second bus.
These pics are why qatar is so hush about not revealing any photos of the cabin.
Fly Dubai / tk / sq max interior looks way better
They looked small I was wondering what that was maybe an a220 but I was on an a350 hovering above it taxiing out in DOH today. The mint lemonade is too sweet. Have you had the walkers shortbread fruit and lemon ? They are better than the ginger ones. Also the eau de toillete in amenity kit is a nice summer smell. A .33 oz bottle you can get 75-100 sprays out of that.
It is called "Arabian" coffee because it is indigenous to the Arabian peninsula and not found in in the rest of the Arab world. While "Arabic" bread is correct because it is found in other Arab countries.
Astonished that more people are not refusing to book/fly on the 737 MAX series. You know the story - Boeing shoe horned large diameter engines onto an air-frame not designed for them and killed a couple of hundred people debugging their MCAS system (necessary to compensate for the flawed design) and figuring out that they should not offer reduced redundancy AoA configurations with such a critically important sub-system depending on the data. It's a no-brainer to give these fundamentally flawed air-frames a very wide swerve. They may actually be sufficiently safe enough now (thank you from Boeing to those dead Ethiopians and Indonesians), but the industry practices that allowed this situation to evolve unchecked need to be ended permanently. There has not been a sufficiently principled stand on this point imho.
Obv written by a Qater fanboy. Those seats are a far cry from SQ’s 737 max offerings.