Couple of interesting quotes from The Scotsman regarding the launch of QR flights from EDI
"He said: “More people want to come here than other cities in Scotland. We were approached by Glasgow, but we always prefer to go to new destinations which are not served. We do not like to follow people - we like to lead.”
"Mr Al-Baker also said he had wanted to launch the route four years ago, but it had been delayed by production problems with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft and the lack of other suitable planes."
Even discounting the inevitable media and QR CEO created spin, these comments do not look good for a BHX-DOH service to start in the future. Shortage of aircraft was given as a possible reason why QR never launched from BHX but this seems to have been resolved now, yet there is no sign of them talking about BHX. I can see a third flight from EK happening as opposed to QR or EY launching in the future.