Originally Posted by
trigleek
Personally I think the QR A380 will be fine at Terminal 8 from just 1 jetbridge. I've flown both SQ A380 and EK A380 at JFK terminal 4 when the upper jetbridge was not working and they just boarded everyone from the lower deck. No hiccups. Boarding took a little bit longer but all was fine.
Who knows? QR may move to Terminal 4.
Before the love affair with American and One World, back when Qatar was thought to join the Star Alliance, they did operate out of a different terminal at JFK. I was one of the first pax boarded Qatar from the AA terminal, back then that started. 3 years ago? Before that it was out of a different terminal. I remember this caused quite a commotion because AA union employees were not allowed to handle QR's plane.
So QR moving out of Terminal 8 is very likely.
In those early days, they allowed QR business class pax to use the Flagship lounge, I wonder if that is still the case