Review of British Airways flight from Doha to Manama in Economy

BAW

BA - British Airways

Flight taken on 11 January 2015
BA124
23:45 00h 25m 00:10
Class Economy
Seat 34A
whitelight44
4,118 · 237 · 8 · 0

Hi all,
This is about my trip back home to Iran and to the Arabic countries in the Persian Gulf area, you can see all parts here:
Toronto to Frankfurt- Air Canada: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9253.html
Frankfurt to Tehran- Lufthansa- Tehran Pictures: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9322.html
Tehran- Shiraz- Tehran- Mahan Air: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9666.html
Tehran to Kuwait- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9383.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Kuwait Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9456.html
Dubai to Doha- Qatar Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9501.html
Doha to Bahrain- British Airways: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9519.html
Bahrain to Kuwait- United Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9554.html
Kuwait to Dubai- Fly Dubai: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9600.html
Dubai to Vienna- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9622.html
Vienna to Toronto- Austrian Airlines: http://flight-report.com/en/report-9629.html
Now we are going to Bahrain via the 5th freedom flight of British Airways from Doha to London via Bahrain and a full pictorial tour of Doha's airport.
The curbside


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Check in Hall


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Looking down at the arrival hall


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The business/first class designated check in areas


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Check in for our flight


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Going past and looking back at the passport control and the security check


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First exploring the B gates on the left wing of the terminal


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Back at the central shopping area


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Now exploring the A gates at the right wing of the terminal


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Sri Lankan crew


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Back at the central shopping area and going to the food court that is there


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The best place to spot planes is from the windows of the food court as the rest of the airport windows are covered with those stupid dots that prevents taking pictures


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Now exploring the long part of the terminal going south to gates C, D and E


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The D and E gates are still under construction but there is a section that iss for bus gates that is downstairs at the end of the terminal


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Back at our gate


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Inside the gate area


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Boarding


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View out the window


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Safety video


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:)


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Push back


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Departing over Doha


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Doha skyline area


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This is one of the shortest flights in the world and the shortest I had been to after flying from Vancouver to Seattle couple of years ago. As soon as we took off, around 7 minutes into the flight the captain announced to cabin crew to prepare for landing and they very fast distributed these orange juices and we landed at Bahrain after 20 minutes of light from Doha and the captain said that we are flying only at the altitude of 3 KM from the sea level, very interesting.
The orange juice


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Landing


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We disembarked along with the passengers going to Bahrain, the rest of people travelling to London remained on board


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On the way to passport control


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Passport control


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The arrival hall of Bahrain airport


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Gulf Air crew


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Some pictures of Bahrain:
Bahrain's capital city is called Manama and is a very clean, safe and a nice city to visit.
Bahraini Dinar is also one of the most strong currencies of the world 1 Bahraini Dinar = $3 USD
The 5 Dinar Bill = $15 USD


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10 Bahraini Dinar = $30 USD


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Manama City


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Hope you enjoyed this FR :)

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Product ratings

Airline

British Airways 8.5

  • Cabin8.5 / 10
  • Cabin crew9.0 / 10
  • Entertainment/wifi8.5 / 10
  • Meal/catering8.0 / 10
Departure airport

Doha - DOH8.5

  • Efficiency9.0 / 10
  • Access8.0 / 10
  • Services8.0 / 10
  • Cleanliness9.0 / 10
Arrival Airport

Manama - BAH8.4

  • Efficiency8.0 / 10
  • Access8.5 / 10
  • Services8.5 / 10
  • Cleanliness8.5 / 10

Conclusion

One of the shortest flights in the world. Comfortable seats in British Airways with nice and friendly crew. Doha airport was very clean and nice but very hard to take pictures of planes due to circle shaped figures on most windows.

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Comments (8)

  • Thanks for this Airport Report ;)

    DOH is a charmless and gloomy airport

    8 is a good mark for a chemical orange juice lol

    Gorgeous pictures of Manama

  • Thanks for this nice flight-report (or airport report like say Lagentsecret).

    It is true that the airport seems very dark. Fortunately, there has in places these beautiful blue esclators^^. ;)

  • Thanks for another beautiful and unique report! you really worked out and interesting routing on this trip. I had no idea that BA flew this route. You got lucky to get the new cabins, as it seems it is hit or miss on 777s.

  • Thanks for this FR.

    This sure is an interesting way to fly from DOH to BAH.

    I'm even surprised a service was even offered on such a short flight.

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