Last year we did CS outbound to Male, the timings for that are great and it was very comfortable as you say. Inbound we took QR via DOH, mainly because it meant could get most of the day in resort and get an evening/overnight flight back to London vs the morning BA departure. A longer journey but overall worked well.

I think I would probably do the same combo again, even with old CW, but it’s not as good a product for sure.