In my opinion Qatar Airways offers the all around best business class experience in the world with their Qsuites product. However, historically one area where the airline has lagged is with inflight wifi. Up until recently: -- None of Qatar Airways'…
There's a new five star airline on the horizon! Angola's Novo Jornal is reporting that there are talks taking place about the possibility of Qatar Airways investing in TAAG Angola. Allegedly Angola's transport minister was recently in Doha for these…
Qatar Airways Qsuites is my favorite business class product in the world. Historically the airline has also had exceptional business class fares, though for quite a while the number of sales were limited, especially for travel originating in the US.…
Here's yet another interesting management shift at a major airline (I feel like we've seen an unusual number of these lately). In May 2019, Thierry Antinori resigned as Emirates' EVP and Chief Commercial Officer. The abruptness of his departure caught…
Oh my... Today's Qatar Airways flight QR816 was scheduled to fly from Doha to Hong Kong. The flight was supposed to depart at 7:35AM, and the "block time" (gate-to-gate) was scheduled to be eight hours. Well, the journey time ended up taking 12 hours…
Yesterday I wrote about how President Trump had a meeting with several airline CEOs, including those from American Airlines, United Airlines, and even Qatar Airways. One of the topics of conversation was subsidies for Gulf carriers, which the US airlines…
To say that I would have loved to be a fly on the wall at this meeting is a severe understatement. Yesterday President Trump and Vice President Pence hosted several airline CEOs at the White House, including the CEOs of American, United, JetBlue, Fedex,…
Oh Qatar Airways... While I love Qatar Airways' onboard product, I find their Privilege Club loyalty program to be subpar. There's very little redeeming about the program, which to me seems like such a missed opportunity. It's not only underwhelming…
Since the beginning of this year, Qatar Airways has been selling business class passengers access to their first class lounge in Doha. Specifically, I'm talking about the Al Safwa First Class Lounge, which is spectacular, and which I rank as one of the…
The Skytrax World Airline Awards were held in Paris today. While I place very little value on Skytrax ratings, these awards are given based on voting by the public, which I think is why they're worth sharing. Today Skytrax published their annual ratings,…
While overall Qatar Airways doesn't offer as many great business class fares as they used to out of North America, we have been seeing a good number of deals so far this year. For example, a few weeks ago I wrote about how Qatar Airways has ~2,000USD…
Qatar Airways has provided some interesting updates regarding their future fleet plans, via an interview that the Gulf Times had with Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker. Qatar Airways plans to retire all of their Airbus A330s within the next three years,…
Air Italy is the controversial Italian airline that Qatar Airways has a 49% stake in. The airline used to be known as Meridiana, but with funding from Qatar Airways the airline has launched new routes and updated their onboard product. The airline has…
Ramadan 2019 kicks off at sundown tonight (Ramadan Mubarak!), and this year it runs through June 4, 2019. Given that the "big three" Gulf carriers are all based in countries that generally observe Ramadan, I wanted to provide a quick rundown of what…
This just keeps getting better. A couple of months ago I wrote about some great Qatar Airways business class fares from Montreal to Bangkok, and now the fares are even lower! Qatar Airways Qsuites is my favorite business class product in the world. Historically…
Well this comes as a bit of a surprise. Yesterday I wrote about how Etihad Airways is expanding their buy on board menu in economy, and is eliminating personal televisions on their fleet of A320s and A321s. Today there's another announcement from a Gulf…
While airlines are doing everything they can to squeeze more seats onto planes in economy, in many cases airlines are increasingly allocating more space to first and business class. For the most part this comes in the form of more comfortable and spacious…
A vast majority of airlines in the world avoid Syrian airspace. This is due to a combination of many governments prohibiting their airlines from flying through Syrian airspace, and also for safety reasons, given the risk of air strikes. For example,…
It looks like Qatar Airways will be busy in Canada this summer... operating flights on behalf of other airlines. Yesterday I wrote about how Qatar Airways will be operating select Air Canada flights from Montreal to both Barcelona and Paris this summer.…
The Boeing 737 MAX has been grounded for several weeks now, with no clear timeline for when the plane will be flying again. This has caused big operational challenges for several airlines, and obviously the airlines with the biggest 737 MAX fleets are…
TSA Pre-Check is one of the innovations that has made the air travel experience in the US a bit more pleasant. Those eligible for Pre-Check enjoy expedited security screening, where they don't have to take off their shoes, or take their liquids out of…
