Originally Posted by
Dan72
I haven't been that impressed with Qatar either. I find their 5 star marketing a little counter-productive in terms of expectations and experience, but more specifically:
- QR penny pinch too, I have often found (and more often than with BA) that my menu choice is not available.
- the DOH lounge is physically impressive, but also huge and a bit cold. The food and beverage options are limited. For the size of the lounge they only have two places to get a proper bite and they are a bit of a hike and I can see that many passengers will just give up. The queues for the sandwich bar can be ridiculous.
- staff can be good, but can also seem a little robotic.
I'm in the lounge now - it is absolutely rammed. Standing room only. It's been a while since i've had to queue up at the gents
Skipcool - i'm not sure if BA will improve. I hope so. But yes, for sure Qatar will. But until they've gotten rid of those wretched angle flat seats I won't be booking any more trips with them.
And of course you are right - BA doesn't fly direct DOH-FRA. I had to be in FRA for work on tuesday so thought i'd just fly direct from DOH and arrive tomorrow and have a day to explore instead of flying to LHR then onto FRA the next day. PLUS I was looking forward to experiencing the new A350 which was another incentive to fly to FRA. Obvs that won't happen now.