Birmingham: Qatar Airways News & Flight Discussion

[JENNYJET]

That was all I needed to know. Thank you.

 

[Scania1800]

So that means one flight daily?

Yes, every day QR will come however 3 at morning and 4 at lunchtime services

 

[JENNYJET]

Can I read any service to Doha ex BHX via New Street rail station as an irrelevance?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

Can I read any service to Doha ex BHX via New Street rail station as an irrelevance?

Once daily BHX - Doha flights commence, there should be no need to to have to get the train to LHR.

 

[Timberwolf]

So that means one flight daily?

Yes.

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Flights to Doha will now commence on 6th July 2023

 

[Ray Finkle]

The earlier start seems to be for the British Grand Prix which is on July 9th.

 

[Timberwolf]

Must be good demand for the Grand Prix from Saudia Arabia then for them to start earlier.

 

[Ray Finkle]

I think QR are a sponsor of the F1 and offer different packages.


Another decent enough picture of Birmingham. That's 2 from 2, @Brum X will be happy

Someone now just needs to copy the BBC in

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646105885524258819

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Qatar will use B777-200 on the 9th October one off

 

[Nethercote2019]

Odd for a date so far in advance & not a major variation on capacity?

 

[Timberwolf]

Odd for a date so far in advance & not a major variation on capacity?

Could be for a number of reasons.
Their 77L have more than twice the number of business class seats compared with the 788s.. for example 51 compared to 22.

So could easily be a large group flying business class.Or lack of a 788 that day.

 

[mullion]

Or cargo

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

I reckon they will increase to 9 or 10 weekly next year

 

[Matt995]

flight schedule for the B777 on Monday 9th October:-

QR 033 arrive BHX 07:45, QR 034 depart BHX 14:45, so 7 hours on the ground at BHX?

 

[nwoody2001]

cargo?

 

[Kevin Farnell]

cargo?

I guess that refers to belly hold, not main deck.

 

[CL44]

I doubt it would be planned for Cargo this far in advance. I would think more likely a big booking for Business Class passengers.

 

[Timberwolf]

I reckon they will increase to 9 or 10 weekly next year

Hard to tell yet.Big increase to the region with Saudia and EK.

Likely EK will go back to double daily A380 summer 2024.

However as you say if Qatar go 10 a week it massively helps flying Australia , NZ from BHX.

Currently EK offers about 24 hrs or so through Dubai being double daily

Qatar at just daily is 36-41hrs hours when I've done some dummy bookings, due waiting many hrs for next connection through Doha !

 

[nwoody2001]

Hard to tell yet.Big increase to the region with Saudia and EK.

Likely EK will go back to double daily A380 summer 2024.

However as you say if Qatar go 10 a week it massively helps flying Australia , NZ from BHX.

Currently EK offers about 24 hrs or so through Dubai being double daily

Qatar at just daily is 36-41hrs hours when I've done some dummy bookings, due waiting many hrs for next connection through Doha !

Thats not entirely accurate....

Flights from BHX-DOH-SYD for example are only 41 hrs on the days where the BHX Departure is a PM flight. On days the BHX Departure is an AM flight, the BHX-DOH-SYD takes only 23 hrs which is much more competative with EK. This is not helped by the fact that BHX-DOH and DOH-SYD are only 1x daily atm.

Look at BHX-DOH-MEL though and its a different story. DOH-MEL is 2x daily meaning that both BHX-DOH departures (AM&PM) connect directly into DOH-MEL flights... as such, all BHX-DOH-MEL flights are less than 24 hrs in length!