Originally Posted by Raffles (Post 28476958)

If I were BA I would be very nervous about putting my customers in Qatar (domestic) First seats! They will soon realise what they are missing .....

Slightly surprised that Qatar have enough short-haul crew with permission to work in the UK.

Originally Posted by Boten (Post 28476963)

QR don't have enough shares to dictate what BA does.

Originally Posted by CHCflyer (Post 28476512)

Is there the interesting prospect of a Qatar Airbus operating to Tel Aviv in all of this?

Originally Posted by Calchas (Post 28477279)

No, the aircraft are still Qatari registered.

Originally Posted by ahmetdouas (Post 28477470)

Qatar have a decent amount of EU eligible foreign pilots no?
And I think their non-EU pilots can fly in and out of the UK, no? Doubt they 'need permission to work in the UK', other than the usual pilot visas.

Originally Posted by simons1 (Post 28477629)

I suspect the CAA will be the arbiter of that.

Originally Posted by shefgab (Post 28474207)

I wonder what the QR crew will think of the BA F&B standards! :D Not to mention the BoB. I wonder if a Green Al Maha will be flown in as well. That would be something interesting for local spotters.

Originally Posted by Calchas (Post 28477385)

Assuming QR is the operator in question, QR does use its A320s on "midhaul" flights to places like Eastern Europe, India, and Scandinavia.

Originally Posted by hungry (Post 28476971)

Surely any self respecting crew would refuse to work these services? As it's breaking and undermining their colleagues in another company who are in dispute with their employer?

Originally Posted by Raffles (Post 28477676)

By crew I meant cabin crew. These are wet leases, they come with Qatari cabin crew. Which means there must be enough Qatari cabin crew who are trained on short-haul but still have permission to work in the UK, which I found odd.

Originally Posted by sharp5flat9 (Post 28477693)

Ah, the leftovers from the abortive Saudi LCC. Which looks even more unlikely now :)

Nice black leather interior but appalling seat pitch in Y and no IFE at all. There are four A320s in a C12 Y68 config according to wikipedia. IIRC they have wifi but I've never taken a long flight on one of these and my heart does sink whenever we get one, even for a 30 min flight.

QR shorthaul Y service tends to be a 'warm sandwich' and a glass of juice. I've only flown intra-GCC F/J on the 777, 787 or A330.



6 hours DOH-WAW in Y on an A320 was too long for me, even in the 'proper' QR spec.

Originally Posted by MSPeconomist (Post 28477707)

Only 80 total seats on the A320? Could you mean Y168 rather than Y68?

Originally Posted by Raffles (Post 28477676)

By crew I meant cabin crew. These are wet leases, they come with Qatari cabin crew. Which means there must be enough Qatari cabin crew who are trained on short-haul but still have permission to work in the UK, which I found odd.

Originally Posted by Raffles (Post 28477676)

By crew I meant cabin crew. These are wet leases, they come with Qatari cabin crew. Which means there must be enough Qatari cabin crew who are trained on short-haul but still have permission to work in the UK, which I found odd.