Review of Qatar Airways flight Munich → Doha in Economy

Hello everyone! Welcome to the new series of my trip to Asia. This was the third Asia trip I had in 2023. This time I was flying with Qatar Airways with a transit in Doha, and then continued to Hong Kong. This was also my first time to fly with the middle east airline.

The day before departure, I had already check-in online, and received my boarding pass via E-mail.

On the day of flight, I arrived at the airport at 14:10pm, one and half hour to departure. Qatar Airways used Terminal 1 in Munich Airport. From the display, I checked that my flight would depart at gate B15.

However the check-in counters were located in modules A. Once I got there, there was literally no passengers. I guess I was quite late. By that point, I realized that boarding was starting in 20 minutes.

Then I headed back to modules B and luckily there weren't so many people at the security check and immigration counters.

After the immigration, I arrived at B15 gate. The waiting area was full of passengers.

Our ride to Doha, B787-9, A7-BHC, delivered to Qatar Airways in December 2019 but entered into service in November 2020. Currently Qatar Airways has 15 B787-9.

As the boarding time approaching, people started gathering in front of the gate. Several queues were formed and was a bit chaotic. The boarding process was done in zones, and I was in zone 3. After the priority boarding and zone 1 and 2.

My seat 25A.

Seatmap by aero LOPA. There are 30 seats in business class and 281 in economy class. Seats in economy class is 3-3-3 configured, except for the first and last row.

Cabin during boarding.

View outside my aircraft, the new extension terminal was nearly completed.

Pillows, earphone, blanket and hygiene kits were place on the seat in advance.

The hygiene kits included a protective glove, mask and a hand sanitising gel.

The welcome screen, showing clearly the seat number.

The main menu of the IFE, the ORYX ONE of 13 inch screen. There was also the USB type C port available.

Individual air nozzles for each passenger.

At 15:30pm, announcement from our first officer that the flight duration was 5 hours and 10 minutes. Cruising altitude at 39000 fleet. Afterwards, safety demonstration video was played.

Pushback eventually started at 15:35pm

Lowering the flaps.

Condor A321, D-ATCG soon departed to Kalamata as DE1666.

some mood lighting while taxing to the runway.

Entering the runway for takeoff.

At 15:49 pm we lifted off from runway 26L.

Banking to the south after takeoff.

Last glimpse of Munich Airport

Then I started watching the first movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage.

There was a device holder for your phone or tablet.

The cabin was then illuminated by the mood-lighting.

It was a bit hazy over Europe and I could not see the landscape below.

Soon the sky was getting dark.

At we were passing through south of Budapest in Hungary, the sun was setting.

At 16:54pm, about one hour into the flight, as we were flying over Romania, west of Bucharest, the inflight service began.

I received a pretzels and also a Budweiser beer.

The economy cabin view

30 minutes later, I took the chance to visit the toilet.

Eau de Toilette.

Another 20 minutes later, when we were flying over Türkiye, dinner was served. I opted for the beef choice and an orange juice. Qatar Airways are providing metal cutlery which was pretty good. Overall the meal was quite delicious and the presentation on the tray was so good. Together with the desert and salad, there was also a bottle of water and a bread.

While I was having the meal, I finished the movie and immediately I started the second one, Resident Evil: Death Island.

An hour later the crew returned and collected our tray, I received a Lotus Biscoff. About 35 minutes later, the cabin light was turned off, leaving the blue lighting in the ceiling of the aircraft.

After I finished the second movie, I checked the flight again and we were flying over Iraq.

Minutes later, the crew passed by and i got myself a kitKat.

At 19:45pm, 15 minutes after I finished the Resident Evil movie, I started the third movie of the flight, Captain Marvel, but I could not finish before landing.

As we were flying over Iraq somewhere around Amarah, before entering the Persian Gulf, I saw some of the fire spots on the ground. I guess they were all from the oil refinery.

A few minutes later, I also got an orange juice from the crew. The crew were keeping the passengers hydrated during the flight, which was much appreciated.

At 19:58pm, the cabin mood lighting was switched on again, and announced that we would descend shortly and expected to land in 45 minutes.

I switched to the view which I could see the speed and altitude.

We flew through Doha and entering the airport from the south.

Thanks for the front camera, I had a very good view during landing. At local time 22:51pm, we landed on runway 34L.

We parked at a remote bay on the west of the airport and after disembarking we were taken by a shuttle bus to the terminal.

Last view of the aircraft.

Total flight route. We flew through Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Iraq.

Thanks for reading!