Hi Hei Helloo! Welcome back to my new flight report! This time, I'll be reporting the very last part of my trip to London as I received free flight from UK Embassy Jakarta for another photo competition as a campaign of Visit Great Britain, so I was flying with my cousin and her friend on this trip as they start school in September.
After about a week stayed in Camden, London it was the time for me to go back to Indonesia. Actually I left the apartment to the airport little bit late since I went to the airport with the tube that may took longer time travel. The full route of this London Trip shown below:
Flight routing
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- 2
- 3
- 4DOHA - JAKARTA
HIA DOH Airport
After wandering little bit a while around the terminal, I went to the boarding lounge immediately because it was around midnight and I really want to rest ASAP…
Gate C6
The Flight
Qatar Airways
Aircraft: Boeing 787-8
Registration: A7-BDD | Msn: 38348 | Age: 3.4 Years
Configuration: C22Y232
Origin: Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar (DOH)
Destination: Soekarno-Hatta International Aiport, Tangerang-Jakarta, Indonesia (CGK)
Flight Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019
Boarding started by the zone. Glad they didn't put the pink/reddish boarding cabin light. I don't like that at all.
My seat for another 8 to 9 hours.
Old safety video I believe, and outside view to an Airbus A340 of Syrian something? do they have a running airline?
Taxi and took off
The menu and the cabin view. The super late dinner and super early breakfast. What to call this food served at around 2AM? The food taste was better than the DOH-LHR flight. Okay since the QR's cabin crew notorious for their slow pace service (as I observed) lots of passengers just walk back to the galley to put their meal tray after done. WHY? because it took forever to wait for them to get back to the aisle to clean up your table and seems like everyone want to sleep ASAP.
View outside, when sunrises on the horizons far far away. The cabin view before they completely shut off the light to let everyone rest.
Lavatory visit, I don't understand about this lavatory configuration, I mean the Handicapped or reduced mobility lavatory on JAL's B787 was kinda huge, but the QTR's was this standard size with a divider that can be opened?
So after the lavatory, I went straight to sleep mode and woke up after leaving India and nearly reaching Indonesian Airspace. What a good sleep!
Second meal service as we heading near to our destination. The taste of course really tasty. I ended up the brunch service with hot tea.
The PSU, reading materials on the seat back pocket, cabin view
Almost there.
Wing view: From blue clear sky, then gradually shown the bad air condition as we reached Jakarta
We taxied to the additional gates of international terminal 3 and anyway it wasn't my camera that crappy but it was the Jakarta metropolitan air pollution was super bad!
Disembark
Can't see the A7-BDD very clear but thanks for the smooth ride! We parked between all Garuda heavies..
T3 CGK Airport
Long walk to the immigration and baggage reclaim area
Wait for the shuttle to go back to Bandung
Thank you so much for stopping by and read my flight report! Really sorry for typo, bad grammar, etc. As I enjoyed reading/views high quality FR. So, I tried my best to deliver FR that met those standards. Hope you enjoy! Feel free to click the like button and comment down below about my flight with QTR
My other flight report:
1. Lion Air JT646 Surabaya (SUB) - Lombok (LOP)
2. Citilink Indonesia QG167 Lombok (LOP) - Jakarta (HLP)
3. Citilink Indonesia QG813 Medan (KNO) - Bandung (BDO)
4. Sriwijaya Air SJ591 Makassar (UPG) - Jakarta (CGK)
5. Indonesia Air Asia QZ257 Bangkok (DMK) to Jakarta (CGK)
6. Wings Air IW1812 Bandung (BDO) to Yogyakarta (JOG)
7. Batik Air ID6375 Yogyakarta (JOG) to Jakarta (CGK)
8. Qatar Airways QR955 Jakarta (CGK) to Doha (DOH)
9. Qatar Airways QR7 Doha (DOH) to London (LHR)
The End…
Good flight report ? I also have the same issue with the catering , the quantity maybe good but they really should see the time of the day and according to that serve . I was also served a rice this at like 3am on a QR flight and didn’t think that was ideal ✈️
Thanks for stopping by Triple7lover! Yeah, last week my mom went on the same flight to Doha from Jakarta that left around 1AM and they served 'dinner' around 2/3AM! I told her before board the airplane to stay awake because they will serve dinner during that time, yet she just want to sleep and yet most of QR's cabin crew will wake you up for meal service :D yeah and some flight were served with 2 main meal services not snack service.
that's the thing. I really don't like the purplish/reddish cabin lighting of QR. it was like everything is purple. the logo, magazine, crew, seats, meal set, IFE...what else to list. i know that is the trademark of QR. but yeah cabin lighting in blue or white is still acceptable.
Thanks for stopping by Mohd Amiruddin! I know right! I believe we are not the only two people that don't like the purple, red, or pinkish cabin mood-light for boarding, it was just an eyesore. Like 1AM welcomed by those colour when board the aircraft wow. I rather welcome by just white light.