Doha airport

[francesca]

I recieved a bad experience with a filipina when sh travels Cebu to Doha, Qatar, to go to France.
Mama mia! T welve hours delay flight. She is alone, first time to take a plane. So they were all transfered to Mercure Hotel. When there, she took an elevator to go to her room, an Arab (male) joined her inside and when the elevator closed, the Arab started to embraced and kissed her!!!:yikes:

Good enough she kicked him (in his thing) and the rapist was down the floor!
Then his phone rang! So our filipina (from Cebu) had the time to push the button to open the elevator door and she ran out !

She didnt report it to the hotel management, as she was afraid, she was in a Arab country, she might be held up to go to her destination.

If you can avoid it, tell ur GF/wife to be with some tourists when inside the elevator. Or avoid taking Qatar and be delayed in Doha...

[walesrob]

If you can avoid it, tell ur GF/wife to be with some tourists when inside the elevator. Or avoid taking Qatar and be delayed in Doha...

Yep, avoid Doha until the airport is sorted, which should be 2008 or early 2009 for the phase 1.

More info here : http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/doha/

Looks a very ambitious project, and a costly one at that.

[Win2Win]

Wrong!!!! 3008!!

[francesca]

Seems Qatar wanted to compete with Dubai UEA eh?
I checked their airplanes via the net, almost as good as Emirates!

And some took it, because they fly from Cebu without passing by Manila.
Good, but...

[A_flyer]

You have 4 airlines in competition in this area:

The oldest "Gulf Air", then "Emirates" (main hub "Dubaï"), "Qatar airways" (main hub "Doha") and the last one "Ethihad" (main hub "Abhu Dabi").

These 4 are very agressive and trying to have and keep a young fleet (planes less than 5 years old) to grab as many passengers as they can from other airlines.

For example, on one you can have a nanny for the kids during all the flight (it's a specific flight attendant) while the parents are resting...
or they have a real "chef" that can cook what you want: I.E. a mushroom omelette in the middle of the flight, he will cook it for you from real eggs and mushrooms (he will slice them ... the mushrooms!) in a frying pan on a portable electric stove: it's not pre-cooked before flight and just warmed!).

Please, don't dream ... it's in first class only ... not in economy! :bigcry:

Nota: Dubai launched their new international airport project. It's 10 times bigger than the actual one. It will have 6 parallel runways of 4500m (each) capable of the heaviest 747, 777 and A380, and be capable of handling 120 million passengers a year (twice what Heathrow was doing till this august).

[aromulus]

The sooner they sort the gents toilets at Doha airport the better...
Waterlogged, and not adequate for the amount of passengers going through every day. Good job i had a copy of the Sun with me, otherwise my trousers would have been an embarassment...
On the lighter side... I left it open on page 3................

[Win2Win]

The sooner they sort the gents toilets at Doha airport the better...
Waterlogged, and not adequate for the amount of passengers going through every day

This is a very good description of a UK racetrack....It's the big Ebor meeting at York this week, so be advised to take some wellies :doh

The muppet who built the £210M stand at Ascot now has the Olympic construction under his wings.....at Ascot no one can see the racing :Erm: , shortage of toilets :Brick: , and the whole place smells like McDonalds :NoNo: