Originally Posted by
surram
Absolulely fantastic reporting by xobile! Thank you so much! I can now peacefully send my mom to BLR this week on QR. Good riddance to DEL and UA/AI. Thank you!
Happy to help. It pains me when people on this board and elsewhere say don't risk it especially with seniors, just take AI... When I've sent multiple passengers to and from India, seniors in wheelchairs via Dubai in the past few months. And in response to galaticos, QR verbally confirmed over the phone that they have no issues taking passengers via Doha to or from the US to India, and knows many passengers who did.
The air bubble thing doesn't actually seem to have been a barrier at all to Qatar or Emirates these past few months, just EY for whatever reason. Also the EK flight last week from Chicago was empty enough for the two seniors to each get their own 4 seat row. You certainly won't find that on AI with their 300 pax loads (which is why EK was empty, regular folk won't know better unfortunately....these are probably the same people who don't do online check in which is why that designated line is always empty....)