Birmingham: Qatar Airways News & Flight Discussion

[Matt995]

QR34 BHX to Doha has gone 180 turn and now heading North west over Sicily

was due to divert to Istanbul, but i think its now coming back to Birmingham!!

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

diverting to Istanbul

Due to arrive at bhx around 22.30

 

[Karl C]

Are you sure on that Matt.....it's still heading towards the UK?

 

[Matt995]

Are you sure on that Matt.....it's still heading towards the UK?

change of plan now, back to BHX!!

 

[HPsauce]

change of plan now, back to BHX!!

Just landed at 22.06 BHX.

 

[Scania1800]

Just landed at 22.06 BHX.

Will be going back tomorrow, airspace has been cleared

 

[IanFarquharson]

Qatar Airways raises winter flights from UK and Ireland

Heathrow to see record frequency to Doha

travelweekly.co.uk

LHR going 10 daily, no increase from BHX as expected

 

[nwoody2001]

Just a frustrating waiting game... hopefully they will up capacity soon on the BHX route

 

[Karl C]

Although loads will quite often go out full, the route in question doesn't perform that well, Qatar is very popular among people going to Thailand and other places, but there isn't the demand to connect through Doha to other international destinations like Australia and other locations in the Asia Pacific region, people choose to fly direct from Heathrow. I'm sure if more people used Doha as a connection then it would increase

Are you and Ant in cahoots? Please elaborate on 'doesnt perform that well' . Your posts like to show BHX in a bad light. Is there a reason for this. Do you prefer another airport over BHX? What's your beef fella?

 

[Birmingham Aviation]

Are you and Ant in cahoots? Please elaborate on 'doesnt perform that well' . Your posts like to show BHX in a bad light. Is there a reason for this. Do you prefer another airport over BHX? What's your beef fella?

I’m vegan mate

 

[Karl C]

Why would I have beef?

You tell me. How about posting a positive post...you might get some likes. Negativity breeds contempt and that's all you'll get if you keep on with it.

 

[Karl C]

I said the route does well with loads? How is that negative? Even people working for the airline say it goes out full quite often

As I said previously and you drifted over it......you said the route ' doesn't perform that well'....please elaborate

 

[IanFarquharson]

In terms of yields because of the passenger type it attracts.

Passenger type ?

Fares from BHX are high, so yield should be strong.

I would imagine with 90%+ load factors Qatar are more than happy.

 

[Nethercote2019]

Passenger type ?

Fares from BHX are high, so yield should be strong.

I would imagine with 90%+ load factors Qatar are more than happy.

Qatar flight are 90 +% full but flight timings don’t help as connecting in Doha often leaves you with many hours in transit particularly when flying to Ozz, as for yield I’ve been looking this year and prices have been very high consistently, but QR must be happy & I suspect only expansion from EK May force their hand or QR expansion force Emirates hand

 

[Iron Duck]

BHX could do with a. New entrant like Etihad or Singapore that could seriously upset the apple cart and get the incumbents off of their bottoms

 

[mullion]

I wonder how well PIA will do as a guy I work with says a lot of people who live in South Manchester won`t touch them and will only go with Emeriates

 

[nwoody2001]

Yep, mainly VFR to Pakistan or trips to Thailand, people from Birmingham don't connect to a wide array of destinations in Qatar

Can you name these destinations in Qatar you refer to please? and also, why this is a problem?

Hub and spoke airlines like Qatar and Emirates thrive on the fact you book onward connecting flights. Why have a passenger only pay for 1 return flight when they can pay for 2 return flights by connecting on to another destination.

Whilst this information is not in the public domain, I suspect a vast majority of Pax flying on QR/EK/TK etc... are connecting on to onward destinations. Why you think people from BHX don't like to connect is beyond me....

 

[Jerry]

Can we please keep things civil. Thank you.

 

[Iron Duck]

Everyone should just calm down and take a chill pill. No need for the personal attacks. Only Qatar Airways has access to true yield figures, but I assume that there must be a reason why we haven’t seen expansion yet they pour the flights into Heathrow/Ringway

 

[Scottie Dog]

Enough is enough. This latest discussion has gone far beyond the bounds of decency.
Any further "off topic" posts not be tolerated and will be deleted without hesitation - as have the previous ones.