Qatar Airways adds 11 weekly London flights

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• Peggerz says:

  2 Mar2 March 10:08

  Hi Rob.
  Just to add that Qatar are upping their game at EDI too with 10 flights a week going to 14, starting 1st July 2023.

  • Colin MacKinnon says:

    2 Mar2 March 10:30

    Hi Peggerz,

    Thanks to BA’s levelling up programme with the new 241s, we have just changed an INV-LHR-SYD to an EDI-LHR-SYD.
    We had decided against Qatar because we thought BA’s 05:05hrs arrival was maybe better than Qatar’s c17:00, and there was no EDI-DOH availability!

    But if there’s now availability on QR ex-EDI…….?

    We have got AKL-DOH-EDI with a three hour layover in DOH, so very happy with that.

    • Lol says:

      2 Mar2 March 17:34

      Be thankful you can even do such a trip.

• Tim P says:

  2 Mar2 March 11:57

  Qatar is also undertaking a major equipment reshuffle. My flight DOH – BKK in October has been changed from an A380 to a B777 and my booked first downgraded to business.

  I’m wondering whether the A380s are being re-withdrawn following Qatar and Airbus’ kiss and make up over the A350s.

  • VALittleRed says:

    2 Mar2 March 12:14

    Wouldn’t be surprised, Akbar has always said he doesn’t like them from a commercial point of view sadly. I would be sad to see the onboard bar go.

    • Neil says:

      2 Mar2 March 16:08

      Doubt it, the DOH-BKK route is always a roulette with equipment shuffles regularly happening pre COVID as well.

• Nick says:

  2 Mar2 March 13:52

  As if a government run by and for the hardcore Brexiteer/Tufton St gang would ever allow european governments to collect biometrics “on British soil” 😂

  No matter how sensible an idea it would be, there’s no chance it would ever happen. They’re already apoplectic that the EU hasn’t just rolled over and given ’special’ England an opt-out from the policy in the first place.

  • A says:

    2 Mar2 March 14:13

    Tbf they already allow it for US global entry, it requires a uk background check first. IMHO tufton st are most likely funded by multinationals and brexiteers are the foolish puppets of foreign (kremlin adjacent) interests.

  • Ray B says:

    4 Mar4 March 23:54

    If the EU thinks that it is fireproof they will be the losers if Brits decide to holiday outside the EU,they would suffer a considerable loss of income.

• EU says:

  2 Mar2 March 17:35

  Can’t believe ETIAS is delayed again. The sooner we start charging people to enter the better.

  • Alex Sm says:

    2 Mar2 March 20:00

    You are already stamping UK passports and barring UK passport holders from using e-hates while enjoying stamp-free and e-border entry to the UK! What else do you need??? I’m not a Brexiteer but this lack of reciprocity is an utter disgrace…

    • Alex Sm says:

      2 Mar2 March 20:00

      *e-gates

    • M Jones says:

      2 Mar2 March 21:35

      Totally agree.

    • Phillip says:

      2 Mar2 March 22:28

      Cyprus allows U.K. passport holders use of “E-gates”! Or their version of, at least!

      • M Jones says:

        2 Mar2 March 23:01

        France, Spain, Portugal and Italy do as well as their main airports and in France case at St Pancras now. You do need a stamp after but it’s quick with no questions.

        Contrast that to to the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway where you get grilled and eyed up like a criminal. I find travelling to the US less of an ordeal.

        Makes a mockery of Schengen really that some members are so chill and others so OTT.

        • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

          3 Mar3 March 01:26

          Two weeks ago I was indeed “grilled” by the K Mar on arrival at AMS,

          It went something like this

          K Mar – how long are you visiting for

          Me – five nights until next Monday

          K Mar – enjoy your stay

          Me -dank u wel

          I was certainly left quivering like a jelly after that ordeal.

        • Rob says:

          3 Mar3 March 08:06

          Turn up Friday with your kids and of course you’re fine. Turn up on Monday with a return flight on Tuesday, with a laptop bag, alone, and expect serious discussions about why you are entering Europe for business purposes without a visa.

          (This is normally my situation. The reason I am not on business of course is that we are reviewing a flight or hotel, not attending meetings.)

        • M Jones says:

          3 Mar3 March 13:16

          When I see grilled I mean it.
          I do not mean the US style ‘business or pleasure, sir’ exchange.
          I mean demand to see proof of income, proof of return ticket, slow look through every page of my passport to count stamp days.
          I got royally told off the other day on a Denmark to Sweden ferry by the Swedes for having two British passports. I mean come on.
          Then you fly into Portugal or Italy and its an E-Gate and you are through.
          Lets remember EU citizens flying into most UK airport shoot through the E gates with no questions at all!

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      3 Mar3 March 01:20

      Lack of reciprocity is called taking back control.

      It applies to the EU as much as the UK.

    • conspicuous-capybara says:

      3 Mar3 March 10:22

      If you think the UK-Schengen relationship is uneven you must be incensed at the discrepancy between an American sailing through e-gates in the UK and a British person being fingerprinted and questioned every time upon their entry in the US.

      • M Jones says:

        3 Mar3 March 13:18

        Well yes that is true.
        But let us remember Singapore, NZ and Australia have now reciprocated allowing Brits to use their E-Gates.
        However at least the US does have a GE system which is as good as an E-Gate albeit with considerable cost and hassle at the front end.
        My hope is E-Gates become the way, and hopefully EES/ETIAS will allow quick use of them once initial registration is complete.

• riku says:

  2 Mar2 March 21:06

  >>Anyone visiting the Schengen area who does not require a full Visa will need to apply in advance for ETIAS
  That is not true. ETIAS would not apply to British passport holders with a permanent resident card for an EU country.

  • redlilly says:

    3 Mar3 March 13:48

    Surely those British passport holders with PR for an EU country, fall under the category of those “visiting the Shenghen area who do not require a visa” (i.e. the caveat in the article)?

    This PR should also be linked to a passport, which “should” mean you can use an e-gate for EU citizens. At least if you need to go and see a border agent, you can show your PR it asked…

• Russ says:

  5 Mar5 March 09:22

  This is linked to your passport so why do they need your pic and fingerprints it goes against the whole idea in the first place. The questions they ask to get the ETIAS is ridiculas. Why do they need to know where you work how much you get paid ? How long you worked there and other private and personal questions which have nothing to do with travel just so you can go there for a holiday

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