Qatar Airways QSuites Confirmed On Two More Routes

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There are a myriad of demonstrations, presentations and announcements every year at the Paris Air Show but, for me, there was one thing in particular that I would have loved to see had I been able to go – Qatar Airways’ new QSuites installed and fully operational on one of the airline’s 777-300ER aircraft.

Today the world got its first real view of what will probably be the best Business Class product on the market when Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker unveiled the QSuite in Paris.

No official pictures of the unveiling have been released at the time of writing so the images below will have to do.

a table with a tv and a screen on itQatar Airways QSuite

a woman sitting in a chair in an airplaneQatar Airways QSuite

The excitement surrounding the QSuite isn’t just because this will be the first ever Business Class product to offer a fully enclosed private suites (Delta will not be far behind when its new Business Class product arrives on its A350 in the fall) but because it will also offer what the airline is calling “the quad” –  4 seats that, if booked together, can form a single, large private suite in the centre of the business Class cabin:

a family sitting at a table in a planeQatar Airways QSuite

That’s pretty impressive!

First Routes & Retrofits

The fact that the QSuite would debut on Qatar’s Doha – London route has been known for a while but the exact date of that first flight (24 June – this Saturday) was only confirmed very recently.

Here are the details for the inaugural QSuite flight:

QR7 DOH 06:35 – 12:00 LHR 77W

Importantly the airline also confirmed today that the next two routes to get the QSuite treatment will be New York and Paris.

No major surprises there as both were muted a few months ago….but this is the first confirmation we’ve had from the airline itself.

a plane flying in the skyQatar Airways A350-900

Qatar Airways has said that the new Business Class product will be retrofitted on the following aircraft at the rate of 1 aircraft per month (this isn’t going to be a quick process):

In addition the A350-1000 (expected in the Qatar Airways fleet by the end of the year) will also feature the QSuite but there won’t be any QSuites for the Airbus A380 or the 787 Dreamliner….at least not for a while.

Due to the nature of the shape of the cabins on the A380 and the Dreamliner the new QSuite wouldn’t fit so a new and modified product will be what we eventually see on those aircraft.

The Numbers:

The Suites:

  • Seat width – 55cm (21.5″)
  • Bed length (in lie-flat mode) – 2.00m (79″)
  • Privacy doors – 1.35m high (53″)

a tv on a table in a planeQatar Airways QSuite

Number of QSuites on the various aircraft types:

  • 777-300ER (regular variant) – 42 QSuites
  • 777-300ER (high density variant) – 24 QSuites
  • A350-900 – 36 QSuites
  • A350-1000 – 46 QSuites

Bottom Line

The QSuite is finally here and yes, I’m overly excited about it. Unfortunately I have no idea when I’m going to get to review it. With so few aircraft having the new Business Class product and with only one more aircraft getting it every month, it will be quite some time before we can be sure which flights will be offering the new product and which won’t…and then there’s the danger of aircraft swaps to worry about too!

The choice of Paris and New York as the next destinations to get QSuites is logical as they’re routes Qatar places a lot of value on – it’s where the airline flies it’s A380 First Class cabin – but there’s no indication yet of the inaugural dates for those routes.

2 COMMENTS

  1. […] We already know that Paris and New York will be the next two destinations to get the QSuite treatmen… but, up until now, there has been no real indication of a timeline. Qatar Airways is fitting the QSuite cabin to one aircraft per month so this isn’t exactly a speedy process…..but a comment made in a press release yesterday seems to have given a timeframe away. […]

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