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| Quote: Qatar Airways CEO: all-new business class from 2016 will include "double bed at business class fare". |
| Quote: Qatar Airways developing a new proprietary business class seat. A350-1000 will not have first class - only A380 will have first. |
| Quote: Qatar Airways smiles and says it will offer a double bed at a business class price, in swipe at Etihad. |
| Quoting Armodeen (Reply 1): They need to concentrate on getting their older aircraft upgraded to the current business class product as seen on the 787, A380 & A350 rather than getting into a urinating contest with Etihad. |
| Quoting KarelXWB (Thread starter): QR said it will offer a "double bed" at business class fare. More details to follow. |
| Quoting KarelXWB (Reply 6): Yeah, QR have like five different J seats. Must be confusing for the average business class traveler, you don't really know what product you will get. |
| Quoting migair54 (Reply 3): Are the A330 going to be there for many more years?? Because if that's the case I don't understand why they're not getting upgrade. |
Last time my family visited the Philippines, we flew OSL-DOH-MNL with Qatar. At the time the new Hamad International Airport was not yet opened. Neither my wife nor me could understand how Qatar can be a 5-star Airline on SkyTraxx. The whole travel was way below what we have experienced flying with I.E Cathay Pacific (CX). Especially between OSL and DOH, i suffered from non-functional IFE on a really worn down A330. To be fair to QR, the staff was really friendly and service-minded throughout. But I have second thoughts about flying QR now, after the connection between IS/ISIL and the government of Qatar has been exposed. 
| Quoting Armodeen (Reply 1): They need to concentrate on getting their older aircraft upgraded to the current business class product as seen on the 787, A380 & A350 rather than getting into a urinating contest with Etihad. |
| Quoting KarelXWB (Reply 5): Yeah, QR have like five different J seats. Must be confusing for the average business class traveler, you don't really know what product you will get. |
| Quote: “We will do it but provide it at a cheaper cost,” Al Baker said. |
| Quoting Miami (Reply 10): And a 'business class bedroom' seems a bit odd. |
| Quoting LondonCity (Reply 11): Virgin Atlantic |
| Quoting Miami (Reply 10): They should consider butting at least first class on the 777X. |
| Quoting LondonCity (Reply 11): Virgin Atlantic was talking about Upper Class double beds back in 1999 ... but it never happened. |
| Quoting KarelXWB (Reply 5): Yeah, QR have like five different J seats. Must be confusing for the average business class traveler, you don't really know what product you will get. |
| Quoting YouGeeElWhy (Reply 14): The only airline I can think of that offers a uniform seat experience is BA, but that seat leaves me wanting for more. |
| Quoting YouGeeElWhy (Reply 14): Even with CX and SQ you can get stuck in a product regionally that is similar to the worst J seat offerings of QR. |
| Quoting AviationAware (Reply 16): True, but you usually know that beforehand. As has been noted, Qatar Airways is notorious for equipment changes. There has been some uproar in German frequent flyer forums a while back because QR advertised the MUC route with the 787 while the 787 was used rather infrequently on that route. |
| Quoting Armodeen (Reply 1): They need to concentrate on getting their older aircraft upgraded to the current business class product as seen on the 787, A380 & A350 rather than getting into a urinating contest with Etihad. |
| Quoting migair54 (Reply 3): Interesting, Head to head with EY but cheaper, good for customers. |
| Quoting migair54 (Reply 3): Only A380 will have First, I think they'll need more of them in the future. Otherwise I think they'll leave some very premium customers with no choice but to use other airlines if they want first class tickets. |
| Quoting AviationAware (Reply 8): Stars at Skytrax are only a matter of how deep your pocketbook is. |
| Quoting HOONS90 (Reply 17): I've also heard many stories of J class passengers getting downgraded to Y at the gate to accommodate last minute VIP passengers, with compensation amounting to no more than a couple of hundred dollars. |
| Quoting Armodeen (Reply 1): They need to concentrate on getting their older aircraft upgraded to the current business class product as seen on the 787, A380 & A350 rather than getting into a urinating contest with Etihad. |
| Quoting gabrielchew (Reply 14): Quoting YouGeeElWhy (Reply 14): The only airline I can think of that offers a uniform seat experience is BA, but that seat leaves me wanting for more. Well, BA is nearly all the same, except for the two A318s operating LCY-JFK. They have a different (but still lie flat) J seat. |
| Quoting EK413 (Reply 21): Id say SQ nails it when it comes to consistency product offerings... The Middle Eastern carriers have a long way to go... |
| Quoting Miami (Reply 11): But is it fair to compare VS with QR? |
| Quoting YTZ (Reply 19): Why bother? Older aircraft will probably be parted out in the next 5 years. There's no investment case. They'll simply achieve consistency by inducting newer aircraft. |
| Quoting YTZ (Reply 19): They'll simply achieve consistency by inducting newer aircraft. |
| Quoting hilram (Reply 26): I know that Emirates has a policy of retiring Aircraft when they are 12 years old. Does QR have a similar policy? |
