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Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2014

#NEPAL #QatarAirways #Boeing787 #DOH





नमस्कार, Namaskara, Hello, dear readers,

safely arrived in MUC, just a little bit further to go right now:

http://www.gcmap.com/map?P=muc-doh&MS=bm&MR=240&MX=720x360&PM=*

Thanx to, once more:

http://www.gcmap.com/





Wednesday, 20.11.2013

MUC (Flughafen München
Franz Josef Strauß)
DOH (Doha International Airport
مطار الدوحة الدولي)

Service QR 58 operated by Qatar Airways
Scheduled:  14.55  //  22.20

The plane types recorded map shows a new entry with the 788, perfect:


PLANE TYPES RECORDED auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

Here are the first 200 visited airports:


Visited airports auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

And just some more:


Visited Airports II auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

All the visited countries:


VISITED COUNTRIES auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

And the checked airlines:


AIRLINES CHECKED auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen


This is the final Tripreporter 2013 data:


TRIPREPORTER 2013 auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

And 2014 at least till now:


TRIPREPORTER 2014 auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

This is a well timed connection, at least from a stressed biz travellers point of view, so well timed that there is close to no time in between for the next flight.
Passport check works swiftly but no chance to use a lounge here.
Well, I feel sorry with the Pristina travellers and the thousand kids, 3.05 hours late on "Germania" and also "Emirates" is not on the scheduled track today, 3.20 hours late for Dubai. Hopefully not a gulf problem in general.
What about this machine at gate H18
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Interesting to follow the call by the gate staff when I arrived.
All pax with an boarding pass not issued by QR itself should contact the counter.
Well, that´s certainly me and so far with the cooperation this way.
Two or three pax only doing the same way like me, all the others started here, astonishing.
Well, nice talking with the middle aged gate agent shows me the two seats beside occupied, not to my greatest pleasure. But also offered me another chance for more space upfront. Three seats for me with the middle and the aisle blocked, One World status works perfectly here.
Well, it looks like nice, I need a couple more pictures
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And this is also a premiere for me
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The very first leg on the 787.
A warm welcome to A7-BCA, a pardon with no individual name just for this time.
In the air with Qatar since 07.12.2012 and also the very first line number with the company. 9 examples are in the actual fleet.
Here is an interesting story with the plane:
http://avherald.com/h?article=45a793ba&opt=0
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Boarding now, ok, let´s go
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Yes, this engine looks like huge
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Also from this point of view
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And also inside it looks like modern with the mixed red fabric seats, spacious and clean
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2.50 pm, short ahead to schedule,  5.10 hours Dreamliner style by "Qatari". Departure from the 4000 meters "Two-Six-Left", leaving 4 cloudy but dry degrees at the "Flughafen München - Franz Josef Strauss".
The load is 90%, biz and others, VFR maybe, well mixed and
bulkhead typical legroom.
A german middle aged guy joins me on the aisle seat.
Sure ok, he´s on a biz trip for Hongkong and Australia, interesting talking on the way
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FA´s serving my seat are a nice middle aged south east asian woman and a young asian male, nice too.
There is also a magazine on offer and some entertainment
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Cockpit crew is an European "طيار", maybe italian with a very short info later on not that far from Doha, 10 till 15 minutes holding, weather and traffic related.
Routing is Budapest-Bukarest-Bagdad-Kuwait, no flightlevel info.
On the way we are
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Well, the IFE is good, good for some issues today.
And I´am sure all the others on this plane are spanish native speakers, what is programmed in advance.
For real, it was not possible to change the language
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Till a complete restart and some snacks
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But my usual point of interest shows a black, dark page, only after the restart.
No flight tracking available. The lead FA was at my seat and confirmed that they are somewhat lucky to bring the system to work with the languages changeable. But on the other hand side the inflight map doesn´t work and he don´t want to restart the system again not knowing what´s the result.
So far with my first 787 impression
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But mood lighting works!
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Full cabin view
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And mood lighting on the engine looks like also nice, isn´t it?
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Well, modern style, ok, but I prefer the menu card on paper anyway or should I collect the screen?
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Well, as usual, I don´t even eat something from the left hand side, right hand side is good for me!. And soon thereafter we are at the "Doha International Airport
مطار الدوحة الدولي" with it´s massive 4570 meters runway "One-Five". It´s 10.40 pm here, what is 20 minutes late and also means 8.40 pm in Germany
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Where the weather, remember the information short ahead to approach, is exactly what you expect from the middle east. 24 degrees, ok so far, but it´s raining cats and dogs and something else and the airport should better invest some money in a fleet of transfer boats to ship the pax from the plane to the terminal than these useless busses!
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A short night at the lounge ahead now and further for the mountains!.
The Tripreporter

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