Stafftravel on Qatar

I'm planning for a flight to KUL via DOH. Does anyone have experience with them? Will it be possible to visit the Premium Terminal in Doha?

regards,
chris

Hi Chris,
I flwe them back in May. I had no issues, except they flat out will NOT upgrade OAL employees. They won't even upgrade their own people, excepting deadheading Capt/FO. I had really good service tho. They hold you at ticket counter until the flight closes, then they will clear you if there's seats which means you have to run like heck to get thru Customs, etc.

You won't be allowed into the premium terminal unless you have a confirmed seat in premium. If you are transferring in DOH, you will need to go to the transfer desk to get a seat on your connecting flight.

I just recently travelled as non-QR staff though DOH. They indeed keep travelling staff reappearing to the transfer desks over and over again. It's either "maybe" or "now flight is closed". The worst standby handling I encountered through the last 11 years. Luckily LH flight had own ground staff at the gate that did wait for the flight to close and handling the staff topics directly at the gate at flight time.

If you get stranded at DOH please prepare for an unwelcoming airport in terms of facilities and support. If you want to get out of the airport you may have to pay for VISA approval first.

I will certainly put DOH on the black list for standby travel for myself.

That being said the flights on QR were excellent and staff handling for QR on other airports was smooth.