Prince's Private Planes (Qatar Airways)

Member Name: pishton

Product:	Qatar Airways
Date:	26/06/00 (2463 review reads)
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Advantages: New aircraft, good hostesses

Disadvantages: Legroom, Movie censorship

Imagine being stuck, motionless at Dakar, Bangladesh on an Arabian airline being served by a stewardess from Blackburn. Bizarre? Oh yes.


She was very efficient and well trained though.


Qatar airlines was started as a hobby by the Crown Prince of Qatar, and he still flies the airliners occasionally. He also lets his pals have a go sometimes. Don't let this put you off though. The Prince's vast quantities of money meant that he was able to invest in completely new Airbuses a couple of years ago and they are pretty well maintained. The food is bog standard airline stuff, albeit with a choice of Arab or Western dishes.


I flew from London to Kathmandu with them, which meant a transfer at Doha, Qatar. They handled this flawlessly and provided hot Westerners with iced water as soon as we got on the plane out of the 35C temperature of the airport.


The Bangladesh incident came about because Kathmandu was stormbound so, not their fault.


The only draw backs were legroom, I'm 6'3", and the inflight movies were censored because it's an Arab airline.


Anyway, they are another alternative to fly with.

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