Booked: Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Economy Class Direct Comparison

The problem is out of the bunch Qatar is the only one in an alliance group and they are in the American alliance anyway. Skyteam and Star Alliance have more partners around the world making travel easier. To fly relatively long flights on airlines with no loyalty, the price would have to be super cheap!

Fun. I start university in a few weeks and I have some free time left. I think about doing something similar (Only maybe in Business). On the flights on sas to zurich I have to agree. i was looking for a short trip to scandinavia and the economy prices were all at 1k +. Really outrageous.

In order to make it fair, you should review their longhaul products on their newest long haul aircraft (or best aircraft). Personally I like Emirates economy on the A380 than the 777!

I have traveled on all 3 in economy, on both short-haul and long-haul. Hands down the best winner is Emirates in terms of service and on-board product. Emirates has more consistent service, while the other two it was hit or miss. On-board product, Emirates has a better entertainment section, better seats, and better selection of food while the other two the items varied from sector to sector (although some sectors had no change for over 2 years). I wrote full descriptions on my blog and I look forward to reading your reviews.

Eager to see the outcome: have done this in real life for the last years to the degree that results should be statistically relevant for QR and EK, but not necessarily for EY but still more than 2 sectors can tell. I have flown QR FRA-DOH-PER (A350/B777) and ADL-DOH-FRA (A350/A350), as well as FRA-DOH more than once and then regionally one-way to/from several destinations repeatedly (CAI: B777/B787, JED: B777, DMM: B787/A320, DXB: A320). Long distance on EK FRA-DXB and on to EBB/NAI mostly B777, regionally JED (now A380, formerly B777), DMM (B777) and AMM (must be B777). I used EY only twice on roundtrips FRA-AUH (A330) and FRA-AUH-AMM (A330/A320). The only thing I remember they woke me up for their average meal despite at least 2 „DND“ stickers at seat and arm/shoulder. The subjective order is as follows: QR long haul: ok seats, flawless service without an exception, food appropriate for duration of flight and good quality, ok IFES. EK long haul: sometimes very good service and great attendants but at least on 2 flights the crew member serving me was rude; overall food quality has reduced recently (not only less, but less choices and lower quality), huge choice on IFES but dated screens on B777. The B and C concourses of DXB terminal 3 were a construction site this week and the place is very noisy at this time. The difference in Y between B777 and A380 is slight (if any), but J in B777 setup and seats are inferior to A380 (different topic). (QR J on B777 is not the same as A350/B787, but still worth using.) Regionally EK and QR are on par. EY comes with a commodity economy class that would either have to be cheaper or offer time savings in order to be considered. Not better than RJ but not a bad airline. The real difference is flying QR to Nairobi. This is done with an A320 and this overall feels like a different airline (at least 1 level lower compared to their services to Europe and Australia). Minimum pitch and low-end food but nice crew. This only takes 30 minutes or so less than FRA-DOH. Almost painful except that one time when there were 29 (twenty nine) passengers on the plane only. Enjoy your trips!