Ia Qatar Airways still the World’s Number 1 Airline?
Since our last successful long-haul voyage with Qatar Airways to the U.S., we weren’t hesitant to book with them again for the 9.5-hour flight Doha to Cape Town, after all since this flight Skytrax had voted them World’s Number 1 airline.
Living in Abu Dhabi this, unfortunately, does mean a little fussing for us in the transfers to arrive at Doha. Despite only needing about 37 minutes in the air you still need to allow 2 hours check-in time, lots of runway taxiing and transfer time making the journey considerably longer door to door – but price-wise it’s immensely competitive!
(NB as at June 2017 this route AUH via DOH to CPT is no longer available due to a diplomatic dispute between Qatar and several Gulf neighbours.)
Where’s my seat?
We are a travelling party of five these days; 2 adults, 2 children and 1 infant. Having accepted that Master J no longer fits the bassinet, our next best hope was to simply be seated together with the infant on our lap but playing the empty seat tactic where possible.
Qatar’s online system