TODAY’S THE DAY: ‘Qsuite Next Gen’ launches today, and we’re there

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• Metty says:

  22 Jul22 July 11:46

  Hope that Rob and Rhys are drier than I am, having wandered the static park and an abortive attempt to learn about ‘Qverse’ at the impressive and smelly Qatar area!

• Timmy says:

  22 Jul22 July 11:52

  Does anyone have any info on what sort of devaluation we are looking at for avios on QR. Rather foolishly I decided on first booking tickets to Argentina on Iberia then worrying about the QR flights

• Paul says:

  22 Jul22 July 12:11

  Nice improvements, but was it hyped up to be more?

  • Rob says:

    22 Jul22 July 12:57

    Not sure you can do more. CEO was just saying how disappointed he is that the rest of the industry has made no progress in catching up since 2017.

    • meta says:

      22 Jul22 July 13:49

      Well, Japanese airlines have caught up way before and seats are far superior than current QSuite.

• Rob says:

  22 Jul22 July 12:30

  Pics of the paired window seats here – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/headforpoints_qatarairways-qsuite-777x-activity-7221113262476595200-cf-N

  • Vit says:

    22 Jul22 July 12:35

    *mood lighting in suite”

    One of BJ’s wishlists come true! 😉

    • BJ says:

      22 Jul22 July 15:03

      Good to hear, I really dislike that cabin crew have so much control of my seat environment on almost all airlines 🙂

  • Paul says:

    22 Jul22 July 14:03

    Great idea but my wife was not so complimentary. She loves the privacy and not having to look at me over dinner. She’d much prefer to watch a movie!!

    • Alan says:

      22 Jul22 July 16:11

      I don’t get why they think you need to turn off the TV to talk to somebody. I mean modern day a conversation with the kids could be them ‘wayching’ tv with their eyes in their phone but still talking to you!

      • David says:

        22 Jul22 July 17:50

        If you think that’s a conversation, you need to up your parenting game.

• sturgeon says:

  22 Jul22 July 12:32

  Where are the comments about bad news coming and why the secrecy? Is this just another expected valuation? The reward seats look too cheap vs most competitors now anyway. Obviously a massive shame but this is happening everywhere. Or they’re going to increase the fees to insane amounts.

  • chris w says:

    22 Jul22 July 13:24

    I could see QSuite redemptions being restricted to Qatars own Privilege Club and 1:1 transfers becoming one-way only.

  • ChrisGVA says:

    27 Jul27 July 15:34

    Well I book Singapore airlines (of Eva Air) in business with 80€ of taxes & 71K Miles & More, from europe to asia (not starting from LHR).
    So no the actual QR price is not different than some (taxes are even higher on QR)

• executiveclubber says:

  22 Jul22 July 12:56

  The new couple seats by the windows look nice. We’d go for those for sure!

  • Duncan says:

    22 Jul22 July 13:12

    CW minus the step-over, or the ability to talk to the other person?

  • Tom says:

    22 Jul22 July 13:48

    Yes, personally I’m not super happy about this change being selfish. I often find all the window seats are already taken in QSuites booking several weeks in advance on LHR-DOH (completely stupid when your last minute high fare passengers can’t get a window seat), encouraging couples to move to the windows as well from the center pairs is not a step forward to me.

    • Rob says:

      22 Jul22 July 13:50

      I haven’t seen a seat map yet. It’s not clear if there will only be a couple of pairs like this or if the whole cabin will be 50% forward, 50% rear facing.

      At the moment, Qatar tends to block out the quads until close to departure unless you have booked 4 seats. The same could happen here with solo travellers not allowed to book one of the seats.

      • Tom says:

        22 Jul22 July 14:34

        This is my point. I doubt QR would do that since that would be madness without a further change to seat selection policy (start charging like BA?), by the way, basically meaning solo travellers aren’t able to select a seat in advance since the entire centre section of the cabin is already blocked to them in favour of groups.

        • Andrew says:

          22 Jul22 July 15:04

          They charge already on some business fares, I think “lite” and “classic”.

• Maples says:

  22 Jul22 July 13:39

  Seen a video about it and the doors are high AF when you compare to BA’s suites. Window suites also look more spacious.

  • Rob says:

    22 Jul22 July 13:45

    Leg room, seat width and suite width are all bigger vs old Qsuite.

• Joshua says:

  22 Jul22 July 14:51

  Same day as massive industry profits warning and O’Leary suggesting Atlantic in trouble too. Seems like Qatar might be having to spend more on the next BA bail out

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