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O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:36 am

Anybody flown out of Cardiff on Qatar. I'm taking the flight from Cardiff to Doha and onto Singapore next month and want to know what the experience is..with the Qataris

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:25 am

Flew to Sri Lanka via Doha one of the best airlines iv ever used and I'm a frequent flyer you will enjoy .Even have a menu too choose your meals and proper cutlery top class.

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:28 am

And using them again next yr only thing I'm not sure a lot of people know that you can fly from Cardiff too the far east no more trips up the m4 too Heathrow. :occasion5:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:15 am

I’ve used them a couple of times out of Cardiff and flying again with them in November.
Had no problems and would highly recommend them.

Beside Qatar being excellent, a 20 minute drive to Cardiff for me instead of a couple of hours up the M4 plus parking and probably a hotel the night before if it’s a morning flight.

Happy days, enjoy!

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:56 am

I'm massive fan of Emirates but this was v good

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:33 am

Plan to use them to Melbourne next year and looking at flights fantastic not having to go to London , very flexible in days you can go my sister went to Sydney she liked it which is a good recommendation considering shes a frequent flyer around world... :thumbup:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:00 am

Flew business class to Bali using this from Cardiff to Qatar. Absolutely amazing experience far better than BA. Everything they do is for the customer.

The lounge at Cardiff Airport however is a pile of shite.

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:59 am

There can be long stop overs in Doha whilst waiting for your connecting flight both ways. Worth bearing in mind. The journey up the M4 might not be too bad after all if you can get a direct flight to your final destination.

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:19 pm

charlieduke wrote:There can be long stop overs in Doha whilst waiting for your connecting flight both ways. Worth bearing in mind. The journey up the M4 might not be too bad after all if you can get a direct flight to your final destination.





How many direct flights to Australia from London Without stop over? Should add not BA would not recommend them to my mother in law! :laughing6:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:24 pm

pembroke allan wrote:
charlieduke wrote:There can be long stop overs in Doha whilst waiting for your connecting flight both ways. Worth bearing in mind. The journey up the M4 might not be too bad after all if you can get a direct flight to your final destination.





How many direct flights to Australia from London Without stop over? Should add not BA would not recommend them to my mother in law! :laughing6:


He's right though mate, when I flew to Sydney from London we had a 30 minute transit stop in Bangkok, looking on the quatar website you're looking at a 10-11 stop over in most cases so the trip up the M4 is not so bad when you look at it from that angle.

Depends where in Wales your traveling from and what your looking for though of course

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:21 pm

Not everybody who flies on Qatar from Cardiff goes to Australia. Some do fly to the Far East. What i’m saying is that the initial convenience of flying from Cardiff can be counteracted by the delay in the connecting flight. You can fly direct to the Far East using alternative airlines from BA if you want or fly to Amsterdam from Cardiff and connect there and fly on KLM to your final destination if not going to Australia and similar.

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:58 pm

charlieduke wrote:Not everybody who flies on Qatar from Cardiff goes to Australia. Some do fly to the Far East. What i’m saying is that the initial convenience of flying from Cardiff can be counteracted by the delay in the connecting flight. You can fly direct to the Far East using alternative airlines from BA if you want or fly to Amsterdam from Cardiff and connect there and fly on KLM to your final destination if not going to Australia and similar.



Yes very true but add cost for hotel travel ect simple things just stop over one night in dohah believe it's cheap as chips .... klm have a wait at schipol done it worn shirt! But like you say individual thing certainly for me Cardiff is far better than travel to Manchester or London? Which are my normal airports for my travel. :thumbup:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:00 pm

RV Casual wrote:
pembroke allan wrote:
charlieduke wrote:There can be long stop overs in Doha whilst waiting for your connecting flight both ways. Worth bearing in mind. The journey up the M4 might not be too bad after all if you can get a direct flight to your final destination.





How many direct flights to Australia from London Without stop over? Should add not BA would not recommend them to my mother in law! :laughing6:


He's right though mate, when I flew to Sydney from London we had a 30 minute transit stop in Bangkok, looking on the quatar website you're looking at a 10-11 stop over in most cases so the trip up the M4 is not so bad when you look at it from that angle.

Depends where in Wales your traveling from and what your looking for though of course


To far :laughing6: but just said hotel in dohah is cheap as chips certainly cheaper than cost to London and possible hotel musnt forget
return times back in London nit always convenient that's for sure! Quatar is normally 2pm leave arrive back 7am give take 1hr :old:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:24 pm

I had a 7 hour transit for recent flight to Kathmandu but that was my choice.... the closer connection was double the price

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:59 pm

RYANBLUE wrote:I had a 7 hour transit for recent flight to Kathmandu but that was my choice.... the closer connection was double the price



Who did you fly with and where did you fly from ? Not clear :thumbup:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Wed Sep 25, 2019 1:04 pm

THE flights to goa from Cardiff with them are about 3 times longer than going from london.Have flown from London;with them and great airline but just too long from Cardiff

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Wed Sep 25, 2019 1:05 pm

THE flights to goa from Cardiff with them are about 3 times longer than going from london.Have flown from London;with them and great airline but just too long from Cardiff

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Wed Sep 25, 2019 7:38 pm

john52 wrote:THE flights to goa from Cardiff with them are about 3 times longer than going from london.Have flown from London;with them and great airline but just too long from Cardiff



Out curiosity I looked at 2 flights one from Cardiff one from Heathrow to goa Cardiff 30hr with overnight in dohah! BA 23.5hrs with overnight stopover that's not 3 times longer?? So presume there is an airline that does it non stop or less of a stopover? :thumbup:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Wed Sep 25, 2019 8:28 pm

Lots of the flights are 48 hours with various stops .Even 30 hours is near treble as u can get flights from London with other airways and they r 9 hours odd so 3 times as long not really far out ,Maybe check you info

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Thu Sep 26, 2019 3:08 pm

john52 wrote:Lots of the flights are 48 hours with various stops .Even 30 hours is near treble as u can get flights from London with other airways and they r 9 hours odd so 3 times as long not really far out ,Maybe check you info



No I just looked randomly at flights had no intention of looking through the Heathrow flight book to check all flights to Goa? I was being curious to your post thats all! if you'd given an example of Mickey mouse airways takes 10hrs to goa from Heathrow I would see it was 3 time longer than cdf that's all. Anyway now I know it is :thumbup:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:04 am

On the subject of stop overs, had the maddest one ever with Qatar flying back from India, it wasn’t to Cardiff as they didn’t do it at the time. They put “rapid transfer” on our luggage leaving Mumbai, got to Doha where we were escorted off and literally straight back on to a full plane waiting for us, not even time for a piss.....never had that before.... :old:

Re: O/T Qatar Airways from Rhoose

Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:22 am

goats wrote:On the subject of stop overs, had the maddest one ever with Qatar flying back from India, it wasn’t to Cardiff as they didn’t do it at the time. They put “rapid transfer” on our luggage leaving Mumbai, got to Doha where we were escorted off and literally straight back on to a full plane waiting for us, not even time for a piss.....never had that before.... :old:



Must been operated by an indian takeaway service? :laughing6: