Being rather disorganised, I booked my ticket home to Hong Kong relatively close (20 odd days) to Christmas, and end up having to fly on Christmas eve and Christmas Day to save a few pennies. My routing is as follow: EDI-LHR on BA metal, EDI-DOH, and DOH-HKG on Qatar Airways.

I have flown 2 years ago with Qatar to Vienna from Hong Kong, as was blown away by the service. I have since looked for opportunities to fly again with the airline, but the right fare never presented itself, until two weeks ago.

Arrival at Edinburgh is uneventful. My friend Paul who drove me to the airport expected traffic jams as a result of other people's last minute Christmas shopping. Luckily he was pleasantly surprised. Check-in at the BA counter took seconds, as there was no queue. However, the male agent was not particularly friendly, and was unconcerned by the fact that he could not present me with an onward boarding pass (despite all flights being on the same booking). He gave no instruction on how I would obtain one, and just said 'You will have to deal with Qatar'. Not classy, BA.

Sleazy Jet, as Paul likes to call it!





A pre-departure coffee.