Perth losing the QR A380?

[NZflygirl]

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It says Perth and Adelaide are to receive the A350-1000.
Will be interesting to see what the economy seats are like.

Wonder where the A380 will head off to next?

 

[OZDUCK]

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It says Perth and Adelaide are to receive the A350-1000.
Will be interesting to see what the economy seats are like.

Wonder where the A380 will head off to next?

I have seen whispers of this elsewhere. We are flying Doha-Per on the A380 in late October. While I would like to try out the new A350 J "suites", I think for an 11 hour flight I would prefer to be on the A380. According to Seat Guru the economy seats in the A350-1000 are narrower than in the A350-900 - which seems odd to me as they are both 9 across.

Our flight Sin-Doha in late September is on the A350-900. The A350-1000 is apparently taking over that route early November - with a change of Terminal at Changi as well.

 

[jeza]

Have a PER-DOH flight next year. Looking at the seat map it looks like the J seats with the best window access will be rear facing?

 

[Daver6]

This is sad news, but hardly surprising. Was hoping to try book award seats in F on this next year. There goes that idea.

 

[OZDUCK]

Have a PER-DOH flight next year. Looking at the seat map it looks like the J seats with the best window access will be rear facing?

Have a look at Flyertalk, there are a couple of discussion about the A350-1000 seats in the QR forum. One of the comments was that "A/K rear facing and B/J front facing seats have 2 full windows". Some seemed to doubt this, but I don't have any personal experience.

 

[NZflygirl]

I have seen whispers of this elsewhere. We are flying Doha-Per on the A380 in late October. While I would like to try out the new A350 J "suites", I think for an 11 hour flight I would prefer to be on the A380. According to Seat Guru the economy seats in the A350-1000 are narrower than in the A350-900 - which seems odd to me as they are both 9 across.

Our flight Sin-Doha in late September is on the A350-900. The A350-1000 is apparently taking over that route early November - with a change of Terminal at Changi as well.

Weird, I thought the plane was just longer without change to width. I hadn't looked at the details though. Have only flown CIs A350 and love the economy seats. I've been assuming most A350s have similar economy seats. Full service carriers anyway.

This is sad news, but hardly surprising. Was hoping to try book award seats in F on this next year. There goes that idea.

I was also looking at F with AA miles. There are still the east coast flights though.

 

[OZDUCK]

Weird, I thought the plane was just longer without change to width. I hadn't looked at the details though. Have only flown CIs A350 and love the economy seats. I've been assuming most A350s have similar economy seats. Full service carriers anyway.
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It doesn't make sense to me either - but both Seat Guru & Seat Maestro say they are narrower. QR's own site doesn't seem to give a width.

 

[jb747]

The fuselage won't be any wider, but it's quite possible that the internal wall fittings are a bit thinner.

 

[JohnM]

I've recently been on a QR B777 LAX-DOH (16.5h) and a A359 DOH-LHR, in J with both having the new Q-Suites. Brilliant is all I can say, topped off with excellent F&B and service. My top choice in the OWA by a country mile (with the caveat that I have yet to try JL J or F).

Both times I was rear-facing on a window, which I am very happy with. For DOH-LHR, there was a group of four who had two middle sets of seats opened up to the 'office' format. It looked very good and highly functional.

I can't comment on the whY seats and didn't look in that cabin.

I'm booked DOH-PER in J on what was scheduled as an A380 next May. I'll be more than happy if it becomes an A350 with Q-Suites.

Also, for quietness, the A350 is similar to the A380 and far, far quieter than the roar of the B787 IMO.

 

[OZDUCK]

I've recently been on a QR B777 LAX-DOH (16.5h) and a A359 DOH-LHR, in J with both having the new Q-Suites. Brilliant is all I can say, topped off with excellent F&B and service. My top choice in the OWA by a country mile (with the caveat that I have yet to try JL J or F).

Both times I was rear-facing on a window, which I am very happy with. For DOH-LHR, there was a group of four who had two middle sets of seats opened up to the 'office' format. It looked very good and highly functional.

I can't comment on the whY seats and didn't look in that cabin.

I'm booked DOH-PER in J on what was scheduled as an A380 next May. I'll be more than happy if it becomes an A350 with Q-Suites.

Also, for quietness, the A350 is similar to the A380 and far, far quieter than the roar of the B787 IMO.

One day we will get to try the suites - I hope.

I agree with you on the noise levels. We have only done two trips on each of these planes. The B787 - ANZ Y & PE, A350 - QR & Finnair in J and the A380 - Y on SQ - once being in the small Y cabin upstairs. To me the A380 was marginally the quietest but the B787 was definitely the noisiest - but still a "little" bit quieter than sitting in the back row of an Ansett B727.

 

[jb747]

.... - but still a "little" bit quieter than sitting in the back row of an Ansett B727.

Faint praise...

 

[JohnM]

Faint praise...

And very hard to disagree. I've been very surprised at how noisy the B787 is compared with the A350 (and what I intrinsically expected from a much-hyped 'new gen' aircraft.) That is not to say it's not good - just not as good as I expected and that opinion greatly amplified once I rode in an A350.

I'm in the process of planning my 2019 DONEx and I'm going to cram as many QR Q-Suites and A350 flights into it as I possibly can! From a pax perspective, it really is by far the top OWA combo at the moment IMO. Except for the Champagne choice, QR J Q-Suites beats QF F IMO. OK, not as roomy, but overall the cosiness, privacy and F & B is better IMO.

But I'm also working it hard to include a JL J long-haul in the 2019 jaunt as well....

 

[Quickstatus]

Quieter for the people living under the flight path. Definitely not quieter for people in the composite tube.

 

[WeeGraeme]

I have a booking in F fro Doha to Perth in September next year. It's booked on the A380. The Qatar website is still showing the A380 too.

 

[MattJelonek]

Recently flew with QR for the first time two weeks ago from PER on the 380. Was I impressed, but not as impressed as flying the 787 and then 350 on the two next sectors with QR. Returned to SYD on the 777 and that was dry!

350 and 787 had more leg room than the 380 (in Y) but the larger aircraft was nice to have. Would be better flying on the 350, less jet lag, better air etc as I love the 787 EY had and flew with them once a month to Europe. With EY gone I've had to jump to QF... 787 to LHR great, but perhaps QR will be better.. I don't mind the non-stop but love Doha airport!

 

[Ted Nugent]

Looks like QR going 777 ex PER from early September 2019, nothing officially released that I can find but current booking for mid September revised from A380 to 777-300 without Qsuite!

 

[jeza]

I had a quick look & it appears that the 12th of September is when the 777 flights start.

 

[WeeGraeme]

I'm flying in on 8th. I'll be watching the aircraft types a bit nervously. I'm booked in F on a QF award flight. It would certainly be a significant downgrade if they swapped the aircraft early. The older 777-300er aircraft look to have seating which isn't that much better than Emirates from what I've seen in a few videos. Plus, if we get downgraded to J, we'd lose access to the F lounge in Doha.

 

[jase05]

Disappointed as I have been looking at some award seats on AA and they are still showing the A380 in November still aswell as F availability. Oh well

 

[OZDUCK]

Strange, I just looked at September through to December flights on the QR website and, as was said, a B777 is shown from 12 /9. However, it reverts to being being an A380 from 27/10. I wonder if it is just a "seasonal" change or they haven't adjusted the later dates yet?