The Middle East is known for lavish, luxurious and opulent structures and that definitely extends to airline lounges. The ME3 (Emirates, Etihad and Qatar) all are known for their onboard products especially their First Class cabins, but what about their lounges? Emirates First lounges are pretty impressive with a sushi bar, massage facilities, and many […]
In February of this year, Qatar Airways commenced the longest flight in the world from Doha to Auckland. The non-stop service covers a massive 9,032 miles. The carrier uses a 777-200LR which is currently the only aircraft that can fly the route, it’s even said that the A350-1000 will just fall short of the range. The […]
Earlier this year, Qatar Airways opened their fancy new Paris lounge. At the opening event, the carriers CEO His Excellency Akbar Al Baker stated that the airline will be opening a brand new lounge in Bangkok and will also be expanding the current lounge at London’s Heathrow airport. The lounge at LHR was opened in 2011. […]
In early March Qatar unveiled their new super Business Class called ‘Qsuite’. The airline is set to debut the new seating product to London from June of this year, the airline hasn’t yet said when exactly it will fly or which flight number it will be on. If you haven’t seen the Qsuite, here it is: The […]
It’s a well-known fact that Asia is a massive travel market. It’s also well known that Middle Eastern carriers love to expand services and Asia is a major region they love to expand. One airline that especially loves Asia is Qatar Airways and they really love Indonesia. The carrier has just said that they will […]
Wow, time flys! It’s already been 3 months since Qatar commenced the longest flight in the world from Doha to Auckland. I’m in the final stages of planning my trip for the Freddie Awards and I was thinking how I was going to get home. Now obviously I don’t like taking the easiest way home and […]
If haven’t been living under a rock the last few weeks, you definitely would of heard about the U.S. Electronic ban. If you haven’t heard of it basically, most of the Middle Eastern carriers are not allowed to let passengers take electronic devices bigger than a mobile phone onboard. The ban has caused mass confusion and […]
If you read blogs on BoardingArea, you might have seen a few posts about airlines moving terminals in LAX etc. If you haven’t here is a brief rundown: From May of this year, 21 airlines will be switching terminals; Delta will be relocating from T5 & T6 to T2 and T3, American will also be […]
Qatar, Please make up your mind. Qatar Airways will once again go daily into Adelaide from December the 2nd of this year. I say ‘again’ as when the airline first started services to Adelaide they were daily and about three months later they started reducing services to a few weekly. Here is the schedule courtesy of routesonline.com, […]
Wow, time has flown! – it’s already been 6 weeks since Qatar Airways commenced their Auckland service which is currently the longest flight in the world, this will be beaten by Singapore Airlines in 2018. I thought it would be interesting to see how the flight is performing since starting in February. The flight has had mixed […]
Qatar Airways has just unveiled their brand new super Business Class called ”Qsuite” today at ITB Berlin. The brand new seat will be for their 777 and A350 fleet, the airline’s 787’s and A380’s will receive a different seat as the new product cannot fit the aircraft. The airline will take delivery of 10 new […]
Qatar Airways has today commenced their brand new Doha to Auckland service using a Boeing 777-200LR. This flight is now currently the longest in the world, the flight time from Doha to Auckland is blocked at 16 hours and 10 minutes and the return flight to Doha is 17 hours and 45 minutes. QR920 leaves […]