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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? |
Purely on price, product and service I would go with QR, but Q suites aren’t guaranteed. The A350 J is still very agreeable. If you need the tier points, go with BA. |
Originally Posted by NDtraveler
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.................................. 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? Would be a very easy decision for me : Qatar all the way. And I’d definitely go with the infant. She or he won’t be too keen on being left home alone ....... |
Originally Posted by FoxtrotOscar
(Post 30508862)
Purely on price, product and service I would go with QR, but Q suites aren’t guaranteed. The A350 J is still very agreeable. If you need the tier points, go with BA. |
Originally Posted by Schwann
(Post 30508900)
OP will get the same TPs. Avios will be less but that’s a trade off for the lower price and QR experience IMO.
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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. |
It is worth considering that DOH-IAH is a 16.5 hour flight (14.5 hours eastbound).
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Originally Posted by Schwann
(Post 30508900)
OP will get the same TPs. |
Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave
(Post 30508911)
Not quite, the QR service is in business, so 140 TP for the first leg and 40 for the next. Whereas BA is 210 + 210.
[oh, beaten to it by CCayley] |
I'd choose on price and convenience.
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Just think of transit security at LHR both ways.
There, you've chosen QR and saved money too! |
Originally Posted by HIDDY
(Post 30508989)
I'd choose on price and convenience.
Bad service when paying less is far more ok. |
Have you checked costs on each of bringing infant btw? Not sure if that makes any difference but may do. |
Originally Posted by CCayley
(Post 30508922)
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. |
Originally Posted by DYKWIA
(Post 30509028)
You're right and others are wrong then? The "truth" in my opinion is that there's not much difference. The seats on the B787/A350 were more comfortable than BA F, and the food was a lot better. I've not tried the Q Suite yet.
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