Oh my holly god, it's just a few hours of flight connect kid!!!!!!nobody's asking to spend the rest of your life in Doha.

Wow you must have really drawn the short straw. One of the best economy flights I've ever had. Flown them about 4 times to Asia and they were streets ahead of the rest in all aspects. I fly Asia regularly and have experienced most of them and fly these by choice out of Heathrow despite Gatwick being far closer.

Unfortunately can't agree with anyone who has anything good to say about this airline. I had a dreadful flight with these from Qatar to Heathrow. Very old plane, awful seats and legroom, terrible food, but worst of all, worst flight attendants I've ever come across. Very rude, ignorant people who prioritised those who speak their own language over anyone who speaks English natively.

I'd only fly if I was desperate or really strapped for cash and don't mind risking a bad flight. Otherwise I'd definitely pay more for a better airline to avoid ruining a holiday experience!

It's truly disgusting that someone could have a different cultural background from your own isn't it!

Can't really find any at £300 or abouts price as quoted

Flown with them 4 times. I have ONLY ever selected them based on price as the service is TERRIBLE (and usually when the price difference is over £80 as I'd rather spend the extra without having the hassle.) Customer services non existent. They'll change tickets as they see fit. Website used to be terribly UNSTABLE charging but not issuing tickets. Doha has to be one of the most boring transit airports ever and you're usually there for several hours. If you get tickets to Indonesia at £289 take them... The next best price I've ever had is £400 with Garuda (direct though!)

​They'll demand it if your a migrant worker

LHR-DOH this year.

Don't think there was any need for that rude comment :/

I had better experience with Thomson flying to the Med, simply sharing my experience. It seems there are more positives than negatives, also seems they've upgraded aircraft since as this was a few years ago. Personally due to the experience I had I would still choose a different airline where possible. As stated, I flew from Qatar to U.K. which is classed as long haul.

A lot of the flight options it is coming out at for me are booked via "wefly.co.uk". I have not come across them before and a cursory Google seems to reveal reasonably mixed reviews. Has anyone used them to book flights?

BRU - NRT with Swiss @ £405 is the best I can see. Out of London add £55

Anyone know of any good flight deals to Tokyo?

Beware film shooters, retarded fxckers in Doha will force your films through the xray machine and tell you "it's not xray". Yeah right, and the stuff in your head aint brain.

Qatar are best of a bad bunch.... in my opinion definitely better than emirates*. But I feel all the middle eastern companies arrived on the scene and were so far ahead of the competition at that point that they appeared amazing and now they've settled in to the industry they are just above what an average consumer expects now a days.

Apart from all that - this is an amazing deal!

(*flown over 50 times in past 2 years on numerous airlines so feel I have a decent if not bulletproof opinion)

Cheap price but I hate landing in Doha. The airport is so weird. I personally despise the culture and inequality from this region of the world

Unfortunately can't agree with anyone who has anything good to say about this airline. I had a dreadful flight with these from Qatar to Heathrow. Very old plane, awful seats and legroom, terrible food, but worst of all, worst flight attendants I've ever come across. Very rude, ignorant people who prioritised those who speak their own language over anyone who speaks English natively.

I'd only fly if I was desperate or really strapped for cash and don't mind risking a bad flight. Otherwise I'd definitely pay more for a better airline to avoid ruining a holiday experience!

average experience, the champagne was cold but not ice cold and I had seen at least half the films on offer. The massage in the first class lounge lasted for 43 minutes, not the 50 minutes advertised.

That's a really good deal. Hot!

To be objective, most of the folks working at the airports, particularly in the Middle East, are not locals, generally speaking anyway.

I've never found any of the actual "locals" working in immigration or security (across the ME) to be any other than polite or friendly.

YMMV of course but from my own experience, the USA is quite possibly the worst travel experience you can have, when it comes to attitudes with immigration staff...

My summary experience of Qatar Airlines is "above average" I'd say.

Some of the newer Dreamliner planes are wonderful looking inside.
My last flight out to Dubai, in November, was a bonus, as I got the full middle row of seats and just got the head down!

From an economy class perspective, the best I've experienced is with Turkish Airlines...but then again, they can also be bloody awful and it's a miserable service. I've had a 50% satisfaction rate with Turkish but their food and service can be the best economy if they get it right (in my opinion anyway!)

Think my next long haul flight will be on British Airways, to Jo'burg in the new year though.

If I choose a stopover of 8+ hours will they give accommodation?

I'd rather a longer stopover and a sleep somewhere.

I'm looking to go away for 8 weeks, looks to only cost an extra 100 for this. Is 400 just normal price? Still seems cheap.

Can't find any cheap flights to Abu Dhabi

I booked EDI - BKK return, Business class for just over £1300, cannot fault Qatar Airlines, I use them frequently as I have a second home in Thailand, Heat added.

They do occasionally use the A330 - that was the aircraft I flew. Really really hard seats, that's all I remember from that flight. The 787 was cool, great lighting and WiFi. It had literally just come into service with them. The 777 at 9 across is what you should look for. Far better than 10 across which airlines are making the norm.

Booked to go to Bali in Sunday for £407 which I thought was a good deal. Which I hadn't seen this.

The fact that someone threatened to sue an airline because they didn't enjoy their flight speaks volumes today's society.

As a gold frequent flyer with QR i can say they are not a bad airline at all, for the price it's a good deal.

I see lots of negative comments in this thread, i have to agree with some of them as QR have been cost cutting in the last few years - adding more seats for an example. Regarding the stop over in DOH it's not bad, the new airport (about 3 years old from memory) - is nice and clean and i understand the train is now working which will cut down walking times.

The staff you get on QR are normally very nice and i don't agree about having an old aircraft that someone has said, maybe it has just not been refitted with the latest desgin - It's not like Emirates who use really old aircraft on routes to Africa (Durban for an example - CRT's in the damn aircraft!).

You can find similar deals, but if it costs say 30 pounds more than a chinese airline - i would pay the extra and fly with QR.

Heat added for OP

Best airline I've travelled with apart from BA and I've been with a few.....

What route was that? Always had those mini bottles and no problem about asking for two at the dinner serve and replenish as much as you like.

SQ airlines are perfect in my long experience of long distance flights. However, I got an £1100 return business class fare from Italy to New Zealand in January on Qatar, so they are my new favourite airline. Stansted to Italy on Ryanair will be the painful part.

SQ SQ SQ all the way.

​Yes always do and it pays off sometimes but cheapest I've ever got to bali with SQ is £618 Qatar areas coming in half that price :confused:

very interesting site. thnaks for the heads up, op.

Certainly price up SQ on similar dates and see what they come in at

Flew Qatar to Bali a year ago. Their 777 was great, 9 across instead of the usual 10 in economy. The 787 may well be the dreamliner but at 9 across and smaller cabin width than the 777, it's something I always try to avoid. The flight back from Doha to Heathrow was appalling. Service Qrap, really, really poor and seats painfully hard and generally not what I'm used to with say Singapore or Thai. For this price however it's a good deal. Heat.

​Singapore Airlines..... The best in my opinion! Faultless service everytime I've flown with them but you pay for it.

have used them in the past and these are definitely great airlines to fly with.. on par with emirates

​ha, yeah affraid so

Terrible food but can't fault anything else. For that price am making a booking.

Qatar is a great company

Really good airline, preferred them to Emirates. They now fly from Birmingham too :smiley:

Only had positive experiences with Qatar.:smile:

had flown with Qatar on their new fleet A380 this year. Its very spacious and good service. Definitely recommended.

just returned from Bangkok with this airline..Can't fault them! got my returns for 330. at this price I may have to go again.

why is this getting voted cold??

this is great thanks :smiley:

Click through and you will see

what dates are the 289 quid flights??

Nice, heat added.

Great airlines heat added

Sooooo tempted. Authentic Singapore Sling.

9 day flights....first and last day flying leaving only 7 full days at destination.
Plenty of cheap deals to Asia at the moment....pay a bit more and stay as long as you like...

Qatar Airways May 3rd 2017- May 18th 2017 £373