787 arrives in DOH today.

[casablanca]

I had a tweet from Qatar and on facebook that the 787 is enroute from from Sea and should be landing in DOH around 1 pm there.

[disagreeable]

Oh great, that should get the saliva dripping from all the QR wannabes on the pprune threads!

it's sometime this week but prob today.

[ironbutt57]

its airborne enroute...

[sleeve of wizard]

Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! (http://www.flightradar24.com/#!/QTR3787) :ok:

[Airmann]

Currently in Iraq, ETA ~1330

FlightAware (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A7BCB)

[John21UK]

Too many clouds today to see it come past Bahrain. The first cloudy day here had to be today...:sad:

I read it's going to to a couple of DXB's, presumably for crew training, but hopefully we'll see it in Bahrain as well soon. They do send the 77W sometimes so here is hoping.

[FL123]

JUST LANDED!

[360BakTrak]

1 down.....59 to go! :ok:

[disagreeable]

1 down.....59 to go! http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

No, 1 down and 29 to go, the rest are options.

[The Turtle]

Qatar CEO Mulled Merger With Emirates Before Oneworld Invitation


By Jens Flottau
Source: Aviation Daily (http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/avd_11_07_2012_p02-02-514158.xml#)


November 07, 2012
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker, speaking at the Arab Air Carriers Organization annual meeting in Algiers, said he “considered joining Emirates [Airline] to create a mega-carrier” before being invited to join the Oneworld alliance.
Al Baker said the two airlines would have been able to take advantage of “so many synergies,” while operating networks that were at least partially complementary.
“Unfortunately, that dream of mine did not come true, but we then got invited to join Oneworld,” Qatar’s top executive added.
According to al Baker, the political environment is not ready to accept one of the three big Gulf carriers acting as a consolidator like Europe’s International Airlines Group. He warns, however, that international rivals eventually will have “serious antitrust issues” if they continue to block traffic rights for Gulf airlines.
“Huge antitrust litigation will come because you cannot do this,” he said without elaborating.

[360BakTrak]

I realise that. Appropriate username BTW!:}