Hello From The Qatar Airways A350 Delivery Ceremony

Updated: December 22, 2014

Published: December 22, 2014

As y’all know, I’m kind of a Qatar Airways enthusiast. I was on the Qatar Airways A380 inaugural flight, and am booked on the Qatar Airways A350 inaugural commercial flight from Doha to Frankfurt in January.

Today is the day that Qatar Airways is taking delivery of their first A350, and there’s a pretty big ceremony planned. Originally it was supposed to be a couple of weeks ago, but it ended up getting delayed.

A friend managed to get me an invite to the event, and I can’t even begin to say how excited I am.

Check out who’s in attendance:

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I’ll be posting lots of updates throughout the day, so make sure you’re following along on:

Apparently there will be a media flight around Toulouse, so if all goes as planned I may have a chance to fly the A350 today. Here’s to hoping the photo ops extend beyond the A350 itself, and include opportunities to get pictures with His Excellency. If so, I’ll be first in line!

Hope everyone is having an equally, ahem, “Excellent,” Monday, and stay tuned for lots of pictures and updates on social media.

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Paul Guest

December 22, 2014, 2:33 pm

Postulation: The haters on this blog aren't actually industry enthusiasts. A Google search for some rookie-level travel query saw them stumble upon Ben's blog, whereupon they realized how much their lives sucked. Broadly-speaking, humans fall into two camps when dealing with feelings of personal inadequacy: the jealous-slash-spiteful camp, and the that's-neat-slash-how-do-I-obtain-for-myself camp. Having just met the owner of an NFL franchise on a commercial flight, I will take this opportunity to assure the haters that the latter option is much healthier. Peace out girl scouts.

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Ed Diamond

December 22, 2014, 2:30 pm

I hope you got to meet Al Baker, I'm sure your the only journalist there who will squeal like a teenage girl at a hello kitty convention on meeting him ;-)

TEX277 Guest

December 22, 2014, 11:21 am

I've had too many bad experiences QR including a last minute flight cancellation last month where QR obviously didn't think it was important to inform their passengers! There were no announcements, no staff on hand at the gate and the departure screen didn't mention it either. To make matters worse, this followed a 45 minute wait at check-in as staff eventually realised I didn't actually need a Visa for my destination (with no apology and they refused to admit their system was wrong!!!) and I won't even start about trying to get the airport staff to fulfil their CoC of cancelling my ticket (as they insisted I *had* to fly) Eventually, I just gave up dealing with such incompetence and just walked out of the airport. They are now the only airline on my no-fly list! Knee the slimy git in the knackers for me, would you please?

Tom Guest

December 22, 2014, 10:52 am

When was the last time you flew in a middle seat in economy?

Juno Guest

December 22, 2014, 10:51 am

Seriously, what Anthony said. I'm surprised people have so much time for hate. Why read (and post on) a blog you dislike?

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