Flights to Doha
I'm a little confused about the situation on flights to DOH, and the wiki is potentially telling me three quite different things. Forgive the long question but I'm trying to piece together all the bits. Could someone kindly enlighten me and update the wiki accordingly?
On the one hand it says about alcohol: "Nor is it available on most flights to muslim countries (even as far as TUN and ALG).Certain muslim countries, such as Malaysia, are regarded as multicultural countries and the in-flight alcohol ban does not apply."
Reading this, I assume there is no alcohol on flights to DOH, since Qatar is a muslim country. However the very next sentence refers to "all other flights from DOH", which suggests that the info above might only apply to flights departing from DOH to other muslim countries, and it therefore tells us nothing about flights to DOH. It's not clearly specified, so I'm puzzled whether the in-flight alcohol ban applies on flights to DOH or not.
Further down it says "Pre departure alcoholic drinks will normally be served on flights to DOH where alcohol is permitted."
This part is blowing my mind. This is the only sentence referring to flights towards DOH. I'm trying to understand it. I think there are three different ways to read this.
Option 1: So there's an in-flight ban after take-off to DOH (being a flight to a muslim country) but they can serve pre departure drinks depending on the departure airport? That would be consistent with everything else in the wiki. Is that really what it's saying? If there was really no alcohol on any flights to DOH, I think it's important enough to spell out explicitly, and I probably would have read it somewhere in the thread. So this might be the right interpretation but I can't be sure.
Option 2: There are flights to DOH where alcohol is permitted (NB nowhere in the wiki does it say this... in fact it implies the opposite, since Qatar is a muslim country). And on those flights not only will there be in-flight alcohol, but also a pre-departure alcoholic drink. If this is the case, which flights to DOH permit alcohol? Is it the same rule as on the outbound from DOH, so that all the text about in-flight alcohol bans on flights "to muslim countries" is really talking about flights "to and from other muslim countries"
Option 3: Is it actually saying "Pre departure alcoholic drinks will normally be served on flights to DOH, where alcohol is permitted"? The only difference here is a comma which completely changes the meaning, so it would now say that alcohol is generally permitted on flights to DOH, regardless of where they're coming from. Again, this is one way of reading it but the comma makes all the difference.
So, can anyone kindly clarify for me? Is it 1, 2 or 3? Or have I missed another option entirely? Again, please forgive the long post but the question is a fairly fundamental one!
Thank you in advance!