Hello guys and welcome to my Qatar Airways Airbus A350-941 XWB experience! :)
Here is my YouTube-Video of my experience:
Today I'm going to fly from Frankfurt to Dubai, via Doha. After arriving at the boarding-gate, I got this view to my operating aircraft today, an A350! It's gonna be A7-ALC, which was delivered excactly one week ago. It will be just it's 12th passenger-service today.
A beautiful aircraft in my opinion, as I'm a very big fan of the black eye-liner.
Nice sunlight and perfect weather conditions for a beautiful Qatar Airways flight to Doha's brandnew Hamad International Airport, which was opened around a year ago.
After boarding, I was soo excited to finally see the new A350-cabin in real-life. Just look at these mood-lighting-effects!
Boarding was just on time, pushback as well and we took off for a nice flight to Doha. Here is a picture of the nice wingview, taken from seat number 20J.
Shortly after take-off, the crew brought some nice sticks.
And now the Inflight-Entertainment-System (IFE). The touchscreen comes very close to an iPad-touchscreen! A big like!
About an hour later, the real meal has been given to us. You could choose between three different meals, I took the chicken-option, as always ;)
It got darker and darker and at 22:40, I finally arrived at Hamad International Airport, just right beside of a Qatar Airways A380. What a nice view!
This is how the mid-economy-section looked like during deboarding.
And here two images of the brandnew Hamad International Airport, which is (in my opinion) one of the best airports I've ever seen.
Thanks a lot for reading!
I hope you've enjoyed my short trip-report of my first Airbus A350 flight from Frankfurt to Doha :)
Kind Regards, Philipp
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Verdict
Qatar Airways
9.3/10
Cabin9.0
Cabin crew8.0
Entertainment/wifi10.0
Meal/catering10.0
Frankfurt - FRA
6.8/10
Efficiency8.0
Access5.0
Services5.0
Cleanliness9.0
Doha - DOH
9.8/10
Efficiency9.0
Access10.0
Services10.0
Cleanliness10.0
Conclusion
All in all a perfect flight-experience with Qatar Airways. The combination of the A350 and a five-star-airline like Qatar Airways is just brilliant :)
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What a great report ont he A350 experience! Thank you for sharing.
A beautiful aircraft in my opinion, as I'm a very big fan of the black eye-liner. - I whole-heartedly agree. A stunning machine. I hope to be a passenger on one some day.
After boarding, I was soo excited to finally see the new A350-cabin in real-life. Just look at these mood-lighting-effects! -Really sharp looking as well. Those IFE screens are huge.
It got darker and darker and at 22:40, I finally arrived at Hamad International Airport, just right beside of a Qatar Airways A380. What a nice view! -The wingtip feature on the A350 is quite fetching.
It is quite quiet during take-off and landing. The only loud effects are the flaps and the gear, but these sounds are very airbus-like, that's why I like them ;)
As I said, one option was the chicken menu, the other was a vegetarian meal but I don't remember the third one.
I have seen some international airports around the globe already and DOH was really good. Of course, FRA hasn't got a chance ;)
Thanks for sharing this report aboard the A350 and welcome to the site!
The A350 does look really good, I like it's appearance better than the B787. One thing I don't like about the A350 is how it is not switched to a 3-3-3 seating configuration. The cabin width is only marginally larger than an A340, but they add an extra seat. I think the B787 is even narrower than the A350, so the 9-abreast is worse on it.
Seat and IFE are identical to QR's B787s? The catering looks good, but I find the size of the main to be only average when compared to the size of the cup or the water.
The meal is looking very attractive. The PTVs are so huge! They really seem to have a great resolution. The 9-abreast configuration give a very welcome impression of space.
I'm going to stake this aircraft in 4 months. It's an absolute beauty, I can't wait!
A great first report! Very nice pictures and video!
The QR A350 is beautiful on the outside and inside! Though the black eyeliner makes it look a bit like a racoon :-P
The cabin looks really nice and the moodlighting is pretty. The IFE is HUGE and the seats look really comfortable. The 3-3-3 configuration on the A350 is perfect. Certainly more comfortable than a 3-3-3 configuration on the narrower 787.
The meal looks good as well. QR has a very good Economy product that is enhanced even more with the A350.
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A beautiful aircraft in my opinion, as I'm a very big fan of the black eye-liner.
- I whole-heartedly agree. A stunning machine. I hope to be a passenger on one some day.
After boarding, I was soo excited to finally see the new A350-cabin in real-life. Just look at these mood-lighting-effects!
-Really sharp looking as well. Those IFE screens are huge.
It got darker and darker and at 22:40, I finally arrived at Hamad International Airport, just right beside of a Qatar Airways A380. What a nice view!
-The wingtip feature on the A350 is quite fetching.
Thank you again for the report.
I like the A350 too : beautiful aircraft
Is it noisy inside during take off and airborne ?
You could choose between three different meals
A menu was handed ? What were the two other choices ?
which is (in my opinion) one of the best airports I've ever seen.
If your benchmark is FRA I could understand ;)
See you soon for another report
It is quite quiet during take-off and landing. The only loud effects are the flaps and the gear, but these sounds are very airbus-like, that's why I like them ;)
As I said, one option was the chicken menu, the other was a vegetarian meal but I don't remember the third one.
I have seen some international airports around the globe already and DOH was really good. Of course, FRA hasn't got a chance ;)
Philipp
The A350 does look really good, I like it's appearance better than the B787. One thing I don't like about the A350 is how it is not switched to a 3-3-3 seating configuration. The cabin width is only marginally larger than an A340, but they add an extra seat. I think the B787 is even narrower than the A350, so the 9-abreast is worse on it.
Seat and IFE are identical to QR's B787s? The catering looks good, but I find the size of the main to be only average when compared to the size of the cup or the water.
The meal is looking very attractive.
The PTVs are so huge! They really seem to have a great resolution.
The 9-abreast configuration give a very welcome impression of space.
I'm going to stake this aircraft in 4 months. It's an absolute beauty, I can't wait!
The QR A350 is beautiful on the outside and inside! Though the black eyeliner makes it look a bit like a racoon :-P
The cabin looks really nice and the moodlighting is pretty. The IFE is HUGE and the seats look really comfortable. The 3-3-3 configuration on the A350 is perfect. Certainly more comfortable than a 3-3-3 configuration on the narrower 787.
The meal looks good as well. QR has a very good Economy product that is enhanced even more with the A350.
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The plane looks great, the wings look weird for me though.
I hope I mange to fly on one of them soon.
Thanks for sharing!
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