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- The world needs more black pudding.
Hello from Doha, in Qatar.
And today I'm taking a ride with Qatar Airways
onboard a Boeing 787 Dreamliner in their business class.
It's not a QSuite, they don't them on the Dreamliner.
So I'm looking forward to seeing
just what Qatar Airways are like
in their normal business class.
And if it's a close match for the QSuites.
Let's head down to the gate
and take a flight back to the UK with Qatar Airways.
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- So going from the E-gates today, here in Doha,
which are this way.
Right, slightly further than I thought.
The E-gates were right at the bottom of the pier.
I haven't got long to make my flight
so we need to be quick.
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- Good Lord these E-gates are miles away.
I think the plane is boarding already, I don't know.
Less than an hour until departure,
and they boarded pretty early here at Qatar, so.
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- I don't think I've ever been
to this end of Doha airport before.
Have they got a, their alternative, they're equivalent
to the bear back in the main bit.
Pretty cool.
- [Host] My ride to Manchester today
is this Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
delivered new to Qatar Airways in 2014,
making her six years old.
(airport departure announcement)
- [Host] Hello.
Thank you.
Good Morning, how are you?
- Good Morning sir, I'm very well, thank you.
- [Host] Thank you.
Hello, good morning.
(indistinct chatter)
- [Host] Qatar's non QSuites Dreamliner
is in a one to one configuration,
which although not the QSuite
it's still very comfortable indeed.
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(indistinct chatter)
That's on board, the Qatar Dreamliner
heading back to the Manchester.
It's not a QSuite, it's still a really nice seat.
I'll show you around the seat a little bit more later on
in the video, but that's pretty good.
One to one config here.
Pretty comfortable,
pretty private as well.
Of course best thing about the Dreamliner,
it's huge windows.
(indistinct chatter)
- [Host] Pretty soon everyone was on board
and it was time to push back
for the seven hour flight back to the UK.
(plane engine revving)
(flight safety instructions)
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- [Host] Our route today then took us Northwest out of Qatar
to cross Iraq, and then to Turkey.
We crossed the Black Sea before coasting into Romania,
and flying across Eastern Europe towards Germany.
From there, it was across the North Sea coasting
(indistinct) and making an approach into Manchester.
Flight time today was seven hours
and six minutes cruising at 40,000 feet.
So then airborne outsold Manchester
on the Qatari Dreamliner.
And it's a relatively comfortable seat.
It's the same one that they have
on their older A350s before they had the QSuite fitted.
And it's a lovely business class seat.
Let me show you around the seat now.
So here, we've got some reading light.
Literature and a bottle there.
Nice little bit of mood lighting here
down the back.
On this side of the seat we've got USB sockets
remote for the tele.
On the seat, they obviously reclines
into the lie flat position.
Down this side,
storage for a bottle and headphones for the entertainment.
And this lifts up as the seats goes down.
So as I put the seat down, you'll see that comes up.
In front of me then we've got the TV.
I always find the entertainment system on Qatar Airways
can be a little bit glitchy.
Like this one.
You can see we're on the flight map,
but there's no map it's just black.
And that happens a lot,
I've had that before on the A350,
I think I've had exactly this problem.
So it seems to be a common thing.
Table releases onto here,
and pulls a table out.
Nice decent size dinner table there.
Under here more mood lighting.
And another storage compartment.
- What do we have here,
it's a loo with a view.
Yay.
I love a good loo with a view.
You could sit down here,
watching the world go by from 40,000 feet.
Great view of the engine as well out there.
I might just sit in here actually.
There's a better view of the engine here, than in my seat.
(host laughs)
I do like a nice loo with a view.
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- So then bed, in the flat bed position,
and it's actually really nice.
It's really comfy, and it's proper flat as well.
There's no lumpy bits, which is always a good bonus.
So yeah, it's really nice.
Just as comfortable as this as the bed on the QSuite.
The only thing that is a little bit frustrating is
there is no sort of privacy thing here.
I don't know whether this is supposed to pop up or not,
but it's not doing so and I don't know how you do it.
I think it goes up and down with the seat
as you put it into the lie flat position.
But I certainly can't find a way of lifting that up.
So it's not particularly private when your laying down
which isn't brilliant to be honest, but it's okay.
Certainly comfortable.
I'm going to try and get some kip.
It is early in the morning,
and I've just come off a really, an overnight flight
where I barely slept.
So I am hoping to get a few hours sleep
before we get back to Europe anyways.
So I will see you later.
- Well hello.
I've managed a couple of hours of sleep,
which I think has helped me quite a bit.
I've woken up and the cabin crew,
very kindly brought me around
a cup of tea and some biscuits.
So I'm going to have these
I'll have my breakfast in a little while I think,
because we've only gotten to the sort of
three and a half hours till we land in Manchester.
I think we're just over the Black Sea at the moment,
we've just left Turkey heading towards Romania.
So over the Black Sea, 40,000 feet
with about three and a half hours to go.
- So it's been a while since I've had a look around
the in-flight entertainment system on Qatar Airways.
It's changed quite a bit over the years.
And it's been a while since I've had a look round.
So shall we have a look through it
and see what it's like these days.
The system's called Oryx One.
- [Host] So we've got here on the main menu,
entertainment, kids.
So we'll have a look at the entertainment,
see what we've got.
Let's see what movies we have.
We'll have a look at Hollywood.
So loads of movies.
Wow. Loads of collections and things.
It's a massive choice of movies, Isn't it?
Rach and he kids would like this Harry Potter collection.
They've got all of the Harry Potters.
Brilliant.
This 1917, I've watched it twice while I've been away.
It's a really good film. Highly recommend that.
About two soldiers in World War I,
heading across the battlegrounds
to deliver a message on a mission.
That's really good. Really nice action film that one.
HBO channel. They've got Chernobyl.
Now that's a good series.
You can watch all of Chernobyl season one.
Loads of box sets and stuff.
I quite like this. This is really good.
Certainly one of the better IFE systems I've seen.
We can read the Holy Quran, If we want to.
I'm going to go to your trip.
Here we go.
I'm going to have a look at the flight map
which is generally.
It's always working now.
It wasn't working before.
Oh no, there we go. That's what he does.
(host laughs)
It's like running flight sim on a really bad computer.
Everywhere it should be green is kind of black.
It's weird because you look
at the big screen at the front of the cabin.
It's got the same map,
but it actually works over there,
but over here it doesn't.
So that's Oryx One.
It's a really nice little system.
Loads of content on there.
I'm really impressed with that.
I actually might sit and watch a movie.
Since we've got a few hours
until my arrival into Manchester.
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- [Host] I settled down to watch the epic movie Dunkirk.
It really is a fantastic movie in all aspects
even more so if you're an aviation geek.
The flying scenes are just a superb.
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- Some food has arrived.
I've got, so what have we got.
Breakfast omelet, full English breakfast, ha ha.
Sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, just missing black pudding.
Why don't we get black pudding on flights?
It would be incredible.
You started an airline today, that serve nothing
but black pudding for English breakfast,
I would, I would fly with you all the time.
The world needs more black pudding.
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- [Host] As I pondered the black pudding conundrum,
and thought about a business plan
for such a fantastic airline.
We started our descent towards the UK.
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- [Host] There was just something magical today
about seeing Manchester appear beneath the clouds.
I'd been away working in Africa
for three weeks at this point,
and I have to admit to having a bit of a tear in my eye as,
England opened up beneath me and welcomed me home.
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- [Host] How long have you got here in Manchester now?
- [Man] 23 hours.
- [Host] 23 hours that's not too bad.
- [Man] Its going to be on lockdown, so it's annoying.
- [Host] Well yeah in the hotel I guess so...
(host laughs)
- [Man] Good Day.
- [Host] You too.
- [Man] Thank you, good bye.
(indistinct chatter)
- [Host] Thank you very much. Have a good day. Bye bye.
(indistinct chatter)
- [Airport Security] Hello sir.
- [Host] Hi yah, how you doing?
- [Airport Security] ...to Denmark in the last 14 days?
- [Host] No I haven't. No.
- [Airport Security] No.
- [Host] Nope.
- [Airport Security] You've got your health checks ready?
- [Host] Yep.
- [Airport Security] See (indistinct)
- [Host] All right for you. Yep. No worries. Thank you.
Yeah, of course.
Thank you.
All right. Cheers.
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(airport intercom)
- Hello. You all right?
- [Violet] Yeah
- [Host] Ah Violet, you all right?
- [Violet] Yeah.
- So back in England and look who's come to pick me up.
- Hi. - Hey.
Great trip back from Doha in Qatar with Qatar Airways.
At the Qatar Airways their business class products
on the 787 it's not too bad.
I mean, it's not kind of QSuite level good,
but it's Qatar Airways
and their business class is always pretty decent anyway.
Let me know down in the comments below
what you think to Qatar Airways business class products
on the 787.
Whether you think it's a match for that QSuite
that I reviewed earlier on.
In the meantime though, as always, thanks very much
for watching take care and I'll see you on the next one.