Airline review: Qatar Airways economy class, Melbourne to Doha

A street scene from Doha's Souq Waqif. Photo: Belle Jackson

Qatar Airways, the newest Middle Eastern airline to service Australia, does the Melbourne-Doha (Qatar) route and recently started flying from Sydney, with Adelaide-Doha in the wings.

I flew Melbourne to Qatar on the way to Stockholm, and reviewed it for the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. I never seem to draw the A380 card, so plane nerds please note that this flight was on its Boeing 777-300ER.

Great entertainment system (when it got working), good food (except that thing about stuffing kids full of sugar while in a confined space for 14 hours - um, why???) and timely arrival into Doha's new airport, which is fantastic until you hit the maniacal bottlenecks at the transit area.

Click here to read my review of the rival to Emirates and Etihad.