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Qatar have confirmed the presence of a policy whereby if a customer booked a QSuites flight and subsequently gets an aircraft type swap can you request travel on an alternative flight, subject to availability, see post #2709 Previously this included change of routing, now it only includes changing the date on the same routing. QR issued tickets only!

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May 16, 2023, 8:57 pm

#4741

MZB

Join Date: Jan 2023

Posts: 26

I know this won't help you given where you can leave from but it appears that San Francisco and Los Angeles rarely if ever end up without QSuites. I think that is because they are two of QR's longest routes and so require the A350's rather than 777's.

May 17, 2023, 5:35 am

#4742

burningflames

Join Date: Jun 2019

Location: USA

Programs: Alaska 75k

Posts: 107

Quote:

Originally Posted by MZB

I've taken both of these routes. They're operated by the A350-1000, which are all Qsuite equipped.

May 17, 2023, 10:37 pm

#4743

markiedawg

Join Date: Mar 2021

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Programs: AA EP, Marriott Gold

Posts: 113

I think my flight from SGN to DOH in a couple weeks got upgraded to a 777-300 with q-suite. does Qatar notify passengers about needing to update seat selection if the swap is to a q-suite? I was randomly checking our flights to ensure everything was still good to go for our trip and noticed the change in seat map --- from the 2-2-2 config to the 1-2-1 q-suite layout. I also did a dummy booking and it was listed as q-suite. not holding my breath knowing it still might change...

May 18, 2023, 4:32 am

#4744

WannaTheater

Join Date: Sep 2009

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Quote:

Originally Posted by markiedawg

You should be able to bring up your reservation on the Qatar website (using you Qatar confirmation number, not your AA confirmation) and see if they already reassigned your seat.

May 18, 2023, 10:39 am

#4745

anythursday

Join Date: Jul 2014

Posts: 68

Uh this is amazing. Does anyone happen to have similiar stats for flights leaving Montreal?

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May 18, 2023, 12:18 pm

#4746

N1Rotate

Join Date: Dec 2009

Posts: 842

Quote:

Originally Posted by anythursday

Uh this is amazing. Does anyone happen to have similiar stats for flights leaving Montreal?

I'm really appreciative for the time and effort taken to compile and present those stats, one thing to keep in mind though is that the data points ended in January 2023 which was the last month before the resolution of the A350 dispute.

Since then number of active Qsuite equipped aircraft increased by 14 and you can see this in some of the examples above for example ATL has 88% qsuites so far this month compared to 45% in Jan 2023. BOS has been 100% Qsuites so far this month compared to 20% in Jan 2023.

As for YUL, all but one of the flights in 2023 were Qsuite.

May 18, 2023, 12:40 pm

#4747

anythursday

Join Date: Jul 2014

Posts: 68

Thank you so much for the information

That's really helpful! Really hoping to have an opportunity to fly the Qsuite this summer!

May 18, 2023, 1:50 pm

#4748

Lj21

Join Date: May 2023

Posts: 6

Thanks for the info! The numbers did seem to improve once the airbus situation was taken care of. Lets hope there isn't another need to do another chart. Randomly I did noticed that PHL is getting swaped out more than most currently.

May 18, 2023, 2:42 pm

#4749

N1Rotate

Join Date: Dec 2009

Posts: 842

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lj21

Keep in mind that a non-Qsuite aircraft operating does not necessarily equal a swap, they don't just schedule Qsuite everywhere and then swap to non-Qsuite as was alluded earlier in the thread. I assume that chart shared earlier is a percentage of the flights operated by Qsuite aircraft as opposed to the percentage of flights that didn't swap out, measuring the swaps would entail keeping track of the original seatmap of each individual flight as it comes on sale and then recording what aircraft flew that flight 11 months later.

I noticed some routes get initially loaded predominately with one configuration, such as now PHL for the winter schedule non-Qsuite A359. Closer to the schedule you will likely see some flights change to Qsuite A359 as they fine tune the schedules and have better visibility on aircraft availability. Of these flights swapping to Qsuites, due to IRROPs some might change back to reverse herringbone.

Depending on when you booked along that timeline and when you fly you could get the original configuration you booked while another pax on the same flight would have had a change compared to what they booked originally.

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May 18, 2023, 4:05 pm

#4750

flyerwma

Join Date: Mar 2011

Posts: 647

Quote:

Originally Posted by carrotjuice

Ironically, I've been on flights where people generally clamour to the smaller section, it can leave the larger section more "empty"... so it largely depends on the passenger load of the day.

But assuming a pretty even distribution, is the Quad in the small section better than a Quad in the larger section, because you would be 4 of the total 8 seats in the small section? Or is the small section too small and it's better to be in the larger section? My first time in a Q suite so hard to know!

May 18, 2023, 7:34 pm

#4751

SightseeMC

Join Date: Jan 2017

Location: PHX, ICN

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Posts: 502

Quote:

Originally Posted by N1Rotate

I know that ICN - DOH seems to alternate between Qsuites and 2-2-2 on their 777s often (or at least over the last year when I was searching for some trips). IMHO, getting the old J there isn't a swap or bait-&-switch, it's just flying the wrong day.

May 24, 2023, 2:03 pm

#4752

HofstraJet

Join Date: Apr 2008

Location: CLT

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Posts: 1,133

Booked DOH-ATL with Avios for next spring and now realized that ATL is pretty low on the totem pole if they need to swap planes, so thinking of changing to DOH-JFK to have the best shot at a Qsuite (will need to connect regardless of where I fly into).

Worth it?

May 26, 2023, 1:57 pm

#4753

Lj21

Join Date: May 2023

Posts: 6

Hope nobody is flying from chicago ORD to DOH tonight. Swapped for old 2-2-2.

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May 26, 2023, 2:45 pm

#4754

Happy Traveling Consultant

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Lj21

Hope nobody is flying from Chicago ORD to DOH tonight. Swapped for old 2-2-2.

Bummer. I'm flying that again next February so curious how you know - how do you know given that it landed about 20 minutes ago? I can see that it is a 777W/777-300ER, many of which have been converted to QSuites but a lot of which haven't. Our first QSuite flight was one of the retrofitted 777s.

Not sure it makes a difference knowing in advance given all of the other reservations on the trip, but it is good for setting expectations with P2 given their love of QSuites earlier this year!

May 26, 2023, 3:06 pm

#4755

Lj21

Join Date: May 2023

Posts: 6

Quote:

Originally Posted by Happy Traveling Consultant

There is a list of which planes have be converted to Qsuites. I use flight stats to get the tail number of the plane coming into ORD from DOH (only one a day). Today's tail number is A7-BAN which is not on a list of any qsuite planes. I also confirmed by going to Qatar site and trying to book a one way to DOH today. Flight came up but not as Qsuite. First one into ORD in a month or so.