Chiang Mai start?
Jun 25, 2018, 5:11 pm
#16
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Programs: BA Gold, KL Gold, LH FTL, IHG Plat Amb, HH Diamond, Accor Gold, Hertz PC
Posts: 118
I'm booked for A332 in November, but hoping for a plane change to B787.
According to QR Cargo, on 27 Oct we will see the B787 on this route. 27 Oct is the last day of summer schedule, no winter schedule posted yet, so even o QR cargo website I cannot look into November plans, but hopes are high
I know how QR changes their planes for all routes, especially for secondary airports like CNX. Last year booked a flight in September from KBV on B787, changed to A320, then to A319 and finally flew on A332.
Still, B787 would be a nice change with it's B/E Super Diamond seats in J - with 332 you never know B/E Minipod (awful) or B/E Diamond (Ok!). Good thing is less and less 332's with Minipod are flying Thanks to Meridiana / Air Italy.
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Schedules
Btw. Do you know when they're going to announce winter schedule?
According to QR Cargo, on 27 Oct we will see the B787 on this route. 27 Oct is the last day of summer schedule, no winter schedule posted yet, so even o QR cargo website I cannot look into November plans, but hopes are high
I know how QR changes their planes for all routes, especially for secondary airports like CNX. Last year booked a flight in September from KBV on B787, changed to A320, then to A319 and finally flew on A332.
Still, B787 would be a nice change with it's B/E Super Diamond seats in J - with 332 you never know B/E Minipod (awful) or B/E Diamond (Ok!). Good thing is less and less 332's with Minipod are flying
Thanks to Meridiana / Air Italy.Check Availability | QR-Cargo
Schedules
Btw. Do you know when they're going to announce winter schedule?
Jul 25, 2018, 9:54 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Thailand
Programs: QRPC-Silver & Star-Alliance
Posts: 212
I'm booked for A332 in November, but hoping for a plane change to B787.
According to QR Cargo, on 27 Oct we will see the B787 on this route. 27 Oct is the last day of summer schedule, no winter schedule posted yet, so even o QR cargo website I cannot look into November plans, but hopes are high
According to QR Cargo, on 27 Oct we will see the B787 on this route. 27 Oct is the last day of summer schedule, no winter schedule posted yet, so even o QR cargo website I cannot look into November plans, but hopes are high
This meant that my previously-booked Economy-seats had changed from an aisle (B in 2-4-2) to a middle one (3-3-3), so I needed to change my seat-selections, to keep an aisle-seat as I always prefer/book ! Others, who are also booked for the DOH-CNX-DOH route this coming winter might also wish to revisit their seat-selections, or risk being unhappy at check-in/boarding !
So far there's no sign of next summers' A319LR on QR922 (DOH-RGN-CNX-DOH) being switched, hopefully to a larger/better-equipped A320/A321, but one can hope that this may yet happen as load-factors improve, and the route becomes more-established ? That would be better IMO, than increasing the frequency from 4-times-weekly, to more often.
Jul 26, 2018, 6:38 am
#18
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 842
Dec 5, 2018, 6:01 pm
#19
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Thailand
Programs: QRPC-Silver & Star-Alliance
Posts: 212
Flew CNX-DOH two weeks ago, perhaps one-third full on the B788, which wasn't too bad for mid-week/low-season/November ?
However DOH-CNX arriving yesterday was only about 25%, many of us on cheap-fares marketed a year ago via the BA-website, which does rather ask the question why QR decided to increase the frequency from 4-weekly to daily this winter ? Perhaps a single B788, serving both this and the DOH-KBV (Krabi) on alternate days, might have been better ? Or perhaps this may happen once they start sending B787s to Air Italy ?
And my bookings CNX-DOH-CNX for next June, which were formerly confirmed on the A319, are now un-confirmed as the route appears to have been withdrawn for the whole of summer-season, as not seen on various other booking-enquiries.
However DOH-CNX arriving yesterday was only about 25%, many of us on cheap-fares marketed a year ago via the BA-website, which does rather ask the question why QR decided to increase the frequency from 4-weekly to daily this winter ? Perhaps a single B788, serving both this and the DOH-KBV (Krabi) on alternate days, might have been better ? Or perhaps this may happen once they start sending B787s to Air Italy ?
And my bookings CNX-DOH-CNX for next June, which were formerly confirmed on the A319, are now un-confirmed as the route appears to have been withdrawn for the whole of summer-season, as not seen on various other booking-enquiries.