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Old May 7, 2016, 10:13 am
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Changes & Cancellations Summer 2016
QR have announced a host of cancellations, flight time changes, and airframe swaps.

This thread aims to keep everyone in the loop.


Launch dates:
Doha – Sarajevo Planned. 07SEP16 Expected: 02NOV16,
Doha – Auckland Planned 03DEC16 Expected: 06FEB17

Equipment changes:
Doha – Bangkok B777 on QR832/QR837 From 01JUL16,
Doha – Bangkok B777 on QR836/QR833 only From 16SEP16,
A380 ON qr830/831 ONLY. Other flights B777
Doha – Guangzhou A380 QR874/QR875 from 01JUL16
Doha–Johannesburg B777 FOR QR1363/QR1364 01.30 flight From ?01JUL16
Doha – Sydney A380 From 15SEP16


Cancellations:
Doha – Adelaide QR914/QR915 01AUG16 – 30SEP16 Monday cancelled
Doha – Birmingham QR33/QR34 01AUG16 – 29OCT16 Saturday 07.00 cancelled
Doha – Boston QR743/QR744 06JUL16 – 28SEP16 Wednesday cancelled
Doha – Copenhagen QR159/QR160 03AUG16 – 30SEP16 Wednesday cancelled
Doha – Houston QR713/QR714 05JUN16 – 28AUG16 Sunday cancelled
Doha – Manchester QR45/QR46 02AUG16 – 29OCT16 07.00 Tuesday cancelled
Doha – Miami QR777/QE778 01JUN16 – 30AUG16 Friday cancelled
Doha – Nairobi QR 1335/QR1336 07JUL16 – 29OCT16 Thusday 09.00 cancelled
Doha – Nairobi QR 1337/QR1338 from 29JUL16 Monday 02.35 cancelled
Doha – Nairobi QR 1337QR1338 from 29JUL16 Wednesday 02.35 cancelled
Doha – Philadelphia QR727/QR728 01AUG16 – 29AUG16 Monday cancelled
Doha – Philadelphia QR727/QR728 01AUG16 – 29AUG16 Thursday cancelled
Doha – Phuket QR840/QR841 03AUG16 – 31AUG16 Wednesdayi 07.05 cancelled
Doha – Phuket QR840/QR841 03AUG16 – 31AUG16 Friday 07.05 cancelled
Doha – Pisa QR135/QR136 08SEP16 – 29OCT16 Thursday 01.35 cancelled
Doha – Pisa QR133/QR134 08SEP16 – 29OCT16 Monday 07.35 cancelled.
Doha – Pisa QR133/QR134 08SEP16 – 29OCT16 Wednesday 07.35 cancelled.
Doha – Stockholm QR171/QR172 01JUN16 – 30JUN16 Thursday 14.35 cancelled
Doha – Stockholm QR167/QR168 01AUG16 to 30SEP16 Monday 06.45 cancelled
Doha – Stockholm QR167/QR168 01AUG16 to 30SEP16 Thursday 06.45 cancelled
Doha – Vienna QR183/QE184 01AUG16 – 31AUG16 Sunday 08.30 cancelled


Note that return flights from some destinations may be the next day!
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Old Apr 28, 2016, 3:31 pm
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Johannesburg getting 777 aircraft insread of 787?
Noticing that the 787 seems to be replaced by older 777 on my flights mid year onwards which is a shame. Anyone know if this is a temporary change or likely to be the normal choice for the foreseeable future?
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Old Apr 29, 2016, 8:11 am
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Originally Posted by oxtailsoup
Noticing that the 787 seems to be replaced by older 777 on my flights mid year onwards which is a shame. Anyone know if this is a temporary change or likely to be the normal choice for the foreseeable future?
From what I could see the JNB route is doing well (on my flight in March we had economy passengers sitting in crew seats by the toilets in J).

The 777 brings quite a few more seats, especially in Y and loads more cargo capacity.
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Old Apr 29, 2016, 8:44 am
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on my flight in March we had economy passengers sitting in crew seats by the toilets in J
They will be airline people on staff travel and they might even hold business class tickets.
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Old Apr 29, 2016, 8:58 am
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Originally Posted by oxtailsoup
Noticing that the 787 seems to be replaced by older 777 on my flights mid year onwards which is a shame.
On the plus side (especially if you are travelling in Business), I believe the 777s will be the first to see the new "Super J" seat when the refurbishment process begins. And, surely, the 3-4-3 configuation in economy can't be worse than economy in the 787?
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Old Apr 29, 2016, 10:21 am
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Originally Posted by Work-Shy
On the plus side (especially if you are travelling in Business), I believe the 777s will be the first to see the new "Super J" seat when the refurbishment process begins. And, surely, the 3-4-3 configuation in economy can't be worse than economy in the 787?
3-4-3 on the 77W is a bit wider than the 3-3-3 on the 787, also 1-2" more legroom (depending on row), no IFE box. Like you said the 777 will see the new J first.
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Old Apr 29, 2016, 12:22 pm
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Maybe they will have the new J seat then. I have really enjoyed the 787 in J for my regular JNB trips. I much prefer it over the 330 or 777 J seats... Mainly due to the single seat config and storage space.
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Old Apr 30, 2016, 11:23 am
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They will be airline people on staff travel and they might even hold business class tickets.
Interesting. One of the passengers was an elderly man and he was eating an economy snack when I saw him then wrapped up in an economy blanket as it's quite cold by that door.

Certainly looked like a horrible way to spend 8-9 hours facing a toilet.
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Interesting. One of the passengers was an elderly man and he was eating an economy snack when I saw him then wrapped up in an economy blanket as it's quite cold by that door.

Certainly looked like a horrible way to spend 8-9 hours facing a toilet.
Staff include Captains of both QR passenger, and freight, aircraft. The latter may be slightly older (and experienced) than the sprighly bodies you associate with passenger Captains.
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Old Apr 30, 2016, 1:27 pm
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Interesting. One of the passengers was an elderly man and he was eating an economy snack when I saw him then wrapped up in an economy blanket as it's quite cold by that door.
Staff travel is available to fathers and passengers holding tickets valid for travel in economy class can be seated in jump seats at business class galley points.

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Certainly looked like a horrible way to spend 8-9 hours facing a toilet.
I agree. I will not take staff travel for leisure and for duty travel I will, depending on the direction of travel, either postpone the meeting or anything I need to do back at base if a jump seat is the only option.
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Originally Posted by oxtailsoup
Noticing that the 787 seems to be replaced by older 777 on my flights mid year onwards which is a shame. Anyone know if this is a temporary change or likely to be the normal choice for the foreseeable future?
It's currently 2×788 daily. AFAICT, sometime during June and continuing thereafter, it transitions to 1×788 and 1×77W daily.
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Old May 3, 2016, 12:50 pm
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It's currently 2×788 daily. AFAICT, sometime during June and continuing thereafter, it transitions to 1×788 and 1×77W daily.
Specifically, it's the overnight flight DOH-JNB that's changing to the 777-300ER and the daytime flight that's staying 787-8.

In the reverse direction, it's the opposite: It's the daytime flight JNB-DOH that's changing to the 777-300ER and the nighttime flight that's staying 787-8.
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Oh - uber bummed about this. I'm doing LAX-DOH-JNB in late-June and was looking forward to the 787 experience :-(
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Oh - uber bummed about this. I'm doing LAX-DOH-JNB in late-June and was looking forward to the 787 experience :-(
I'm doing LAX-DOH-JNB next February, but they didn't have award availability on the DOH-JNB overnight on my date, only the daytime, so (if the planes actually remain on the same schedule through February) I'm going to experience the 787 on the same route. And it so happens I'm returning on the 787 overnight flight JNB-DOH connecting to the (daytime) DOH-LAX flight on my way back; are you not getting the 787 (on JNB-DOH) in that direction either?
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and it so happens i'm returning on the 787 overnight flights jnb-doh connecting to (daytime) doh-lax on my way back....
787 doh-lax?
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Changes to flight times
I was booked to fly on QR 833 from Bangkok to Doha last Saturday.

The booking showed the departure at 20.40 but on arrival at the airport I found the time had been changed to 21.15. This was not a problem BUT I received no notification of a change to the time which had it been earlier could have been a problem.

Is it Qatar policy not to inform passengers of a change or was it simply a breakdown in communications.
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