Qatar removes first class lounges on A340 aircraft
Published: 11/02/2010 - Filed under: News »
Qatar Airways has removed the onboard first class lounges on its A340-600 fleet, and at the same time has added 40 economy seats to the aircraft.
The carrier announced it would be removing the lounges back in 2008 (see online news April 17, 2008), and has now completed the refit across it fleet of four A340-600 aircraft.
The space taken up by the lounge (behind the two rows of first class seating) has now been replaced by two rows of business class seatings, which have themselves been taken from the last two rows of business class which had been previously positioned behind the galley. Finally this vacated space has been replaced by five rows of 2-4-2 economy seating. The two diagrams below show the before and after layouts of the aircraft.
The rejig means that the number of first and business class seats remains the same, but capacity in economy has increased by 40 seats.
Qatar currently plies routes to the UK and Paris using the A340-600 – for more information visit qatarairways.com.
Report by Mark Caswell
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JordanD - 11/02/2010 16:17
I may have missed something but how does 4 rows of 2-4-2 (8 seats per row, therefore 32 seats in total) equal an "increase of 40 seats" in economy?
FirstTraveller - 11/02/2010 16:41
Even though I will miss the First class lounge, but I find it to be a waste of space and revenues for QR and most QR first class passengers never use it during the flight.
BusinessTraveller - 11/02/2010 16:58
Thank you for pointing this out JordanD - it should have read five rows. The text and image have now been amended.
trekster - 18/02/2010 22:06
Jordan, its 5 rows they have added, not 4. Looks like the business class passengers will get a better deal now they are not located next to the toilets and galley (last row might get a little disruption, but not as much as the current config look at the map above)
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