{"id":167249,"date":"2017-03-08T11:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turkeyalwan.net\/?p=167249"},"modified":"2023-05-31T11:08:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T10:08:21","slug":"trip-report-qatar-airways-a330-business-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turkeyalwan.net\/2017\/03\/08\/trip-report-qatar-airways-a330-business-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways A330 Business Class Doha to the Maldives"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wednesday newsletters<\/a>\u00a0always feature a\u00a0hotel<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0flight<\/a>\u00a0review.<\/p>\n Last month, I enjoyed a FABULOUS\u00a0holiday in the incredibly beautiful Maldives. You can read my trip reports here:<\/p>\n On February 5, 2017, I flew Business Class in an Airbus A330-300\u00a0of\u00a0Qatar Airways<\/a>\u00a0(QA) from Hamad International Airport\u00a0(DOH) in Qatar to Male International Airport (MLE), also known as Velana International Airport, in the Maldives. The previous\u00a0flight segment from Brussels to Doha\u00a0was operated by a QA Boeing , and you can read my\u00a0trip report of this flight here<\/a>.\u00a0QA offers several types of Business Class products on its A330 fleet, with some aircraft\u00a0featuring the old seats (that don’t fully recline) and some\u00a0other featuring the updated product (with fully flat-bed seats). This particular flight was flown by an A330 featuring the new product, but although quite comfortable, QA’s A330 Business Class product is inferior to the one it offers on its A350, B787 and A380 planes. Today though, QA announced that it will introduce a new Business Class product – designated the Q suite – across its entire fleet (starting with the B777), so in the near future, the inferior A330 Business Class cabin products will be gradually phased out (you can watch a clip featuring the new Business Class seat here<\/a>).<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the flight’s departure was delayed by one hour and 15 minutes due to\u00a0an aircraft swap). Because of this delayed departure, we lost our landing slot at MLE and had to circle for one hour near the airport (there were six aircraft in front of us) before the control tower allowed us to land. MLE has only one runway and planes need to turn on the runway and track back in order to reach the terminal, hence explaining why only one plane can land at MLE every 10 minutes. The good news is that we got some awesome views of the spectacularly beautiful Maldives and its 50 shades of blue (and the pilot guaranteed us that we had enough fuel to circle for 90 minutes in total).<\/p>\n Qatar Airways features in my top 10 lists of the\u00a0best airlines for longhaul Business Class<\/a>, the\u00a0most delicious airline food<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0world\u2019s best airline Businss Class lounges<\/a>, the best inflight videos of all time<\/a>, the world’s most luxurious A380 First Class cabins<\/a>, and the\u00a0best Business Class amenity kits<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this review (more information & photos below my Youtube clip &\u00a0slideshow):<\/p>\n\n
\nToday (March 8, 2017): Trip report: Qatar Airways Airbus A330-300 Business Class <\/strong>Doha to Male.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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