BA first vs Qatar Qsuite IAH - DEL - IAH
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BA first vs Qatar Qsuite IAH - DEL - IAH
I am booking this for a year for now.
Option 1
IAH - LHR - DEL (747 or 777 connect to 789) with 2:45 layover otw and 3:10 otw back
$5895 before American Express discount
Option 2
IAH - DOH - IAH (777 connect to A350) with 2:50 layover otw and 3:30 otw back
$4562 before American Express discount
Hopefully that the A350 will have qsuites a year from now.
There are two possibilities for this trip. My wife and I only or we may bring our infant.
What would you go with?
Option 1
IAH - LHR - DEL (747 or 777 connect to 789) with 2:45 layover otw and 3:10 otw back
$5895 before American Express discount
Option 2
IAH - DOH - IAH (777 connect to A350) with 2:50 layover otw and 3:30 otw back
$4562 before American Express discount
Hopefully that the A350 will have qsuites a year from now.
There are two possibilities for this trip. My wife and I only or we may bring our infant.
What would you go with?
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Would be a very easy decision for me : Qatar all the way.
And Id definitely go with the infant. She or he wont be too keen on being left home alone .......
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OP will get the same TPs. Avios will be less but thats a trade off for the lower price and QR experience IMO.
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#6
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It has become the norm here to write about BA F as if it were as pleasurable an experience as a few weeks chained up in a medieval dungeon, whereas Qatar's J product is lauded as unbelievably luxurious. The truth, however, is that BA's first class product is much better than Qatar's business product, and actually I would prefer the A350 as it is to the Q Suite - despite the hype I found that cramped and fairly unremarkable.
So given the the relatively modest price differential I would be choosing BA. I assume the flights are of more even length under the BA option too - which I would prefer personally - but if so the product you'd get on the first leg is far more important a factor than that on the short second flight if you choose Qatar.
So given the the relatively modest price differential I would be choosing BA. I assume the flights are of more even length under the BA option too - which I would prefer personally - but if so the product you'd get on the first leg is far more important a factor than that on the short second flight if you choose Qatar.
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It has become the norm here to write about BA F as if it were as pleasurable an experience as a few weeks chained up in a medieval dungeon, whereas Qatar's J product is lauded as unbelievably luxurious. The truth, however, is that BA's first class product is much better than Qatar's business product, and actually I would prefer the A350 as it is to the Q Suite - despite the hype I found that cramped and fairly unremarkable.
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I was just expressing an opinion - as requested by an OP who is perfectly capable of spotting that all responses here are, ultimately, based on subjective views. I was also trying to prevent the thread from obsessing about the particular product OP might receive travelling with Qatar on the DOH - DEL (A350) leg of his/her journey, when the product on the extremely long flight from IAH to DOH would be far more important in this case.