What does this all have to do with a plane? The flight to Paris was on the fairly new A380, which is a double-decker plane. I have never flown on a plane so large! Not only that, but QA Privilege Club members are given priority to the upper deck. That meant me! I flew upstairs both going to Paris and on the return.
The other con was boarding and disembarking from the upper deck. For boarding, you have to enter through the lower-deck and then climb the stairs. This might be an issue if you have a heavy carry-on. You are also the last passengers to disembark. You have to wait for the First and Business Class passengers to leave and you can’t go downstairs to disembark. This was the case in both Paris and Doha.
The plane overall is great and I would love to fly it again. It’s too bad it isn’t used on many routes. Right now it only flies to Paris, London and Bangkok. Come on Qatar Airways, make Dallas one of the routes.
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OOOOOhhhhhh! You lucky girl. I’ve dreamt of flying on an upper deck for the past 38 years, ever since boarding my first plane (you know, way back in the 70’s when there was 1 movie, 1 movie screen, and smoking onboard wasn’t even given a second thought!).
The seats actually look plusher up there…
Thanks for sharing the pics and the review 🙂
I think the headrests are nicer than the ones downstairs. You’re welcome. Glad you enjoyed!
Very cool your comment, I never thought anything like that, but I’m loyalty program in Qatar as well, but still no status, I wonder how you did to mark the seat in the upper deck. He scored at the time of chekin? to me does not appear to mark !!!
Thank you !
As far as I know you have to have status with Qatar Airways to get a seat up there. Thanks for visiting!
I booked economy seats on the upper cabin for our flights this year. Just had to pay extra. No status but could still book.
That’s great. I wonder if things have changed since I did this. I did this many years ago so it’s good to get a more recent update. Thanks!!
Same! After reading this and other reviews I just went on and selected seats on the upper deck – cost about $235AUD (I am an Aussie) each. I chose 26C & D. If we’re lucky and upper deck economy isn’t very full maybe we can also get a row each to ourselves! My hubby would love that 😆
Fingers crossed it’s not full! Have a safe flight!!