For my trip back to London, I chose the exactly same pattern as the way I flew in (you can read my flight report here), but this time, I lot more time staying at Doha Hamad International Airport, to experience the largest lounge in the world
從廣州返回倫敦，小弟選擇乘坐同一班飛機（看上一篇Flight Report）。不過今次，停留在多哈哈邁德機場的時間更久，體驗全世界最大的休息室！
Boarding Passes
登機牌
Check-in
辦理登機手續
Entrance
禁區入口
The Premium Lounge in the International departure area... How was it?
廣州白雲機場國際出發區的貴賓室，質素如何？
Awful! The most terrible lounge I have been, lot worse than the China Eastern domestic lounge! It's dark, crowded (lots of African travelers), uncomfortable... I just grabbed a Vitasoy and left
Waiting area is more spacious and quiet!
候機室舒服得多！
People lining up in front of the gate, another A380 full flight?
開始排隊上機，睇落又是A380全滿？
A7-APE, the same aircraft flew me from London to Canton
由倫敦飛廣州都系呢部飛機！
My seat today
今日的座位
Plenty of legroom!
家姐話我條腳好長
點擺都得
Champagne and the Giorgio Armani amenity kit bag
香檳及亞曼尼的amenity kit袋
Not only none of the crew members speak Chinese, the safety video is only in English and Arabic too. I think it's dangerous and unreponsible because most of Chinese travelers don't understand English.
不單沒一位空服員識講中文，連安全示範也只是
It's already late night and it's very unhealty to eat a big dinner, so I just had a cheesecake. OK, it's not very healthy neither...
因為已經是深宵，晚餐會對健康有害。所以我食件芝士蛋糕就訓覺啦
沒事，芝士蛋糕好有益！
Breakfast instead, is very good! Orange juice is freshly squeezed
早餐好好食噶，橙汁環是鮮榨的
Other than the free WiFi of 15 minutes on Qatar Airway's new fleet, GSM mobile service is also available, I can send and receive SMS on 35000ft (I surprised the first time I saw this on Lufthansa)
除免費15分鐘WiFi以外，卡塔爾航空的新飛機還提供GSM電話網絡服務，可以在萬米高空上收發訊息。（第一次在漢莎上睇到還很好奇）
Why so many detours?
點解兜咁多路？
Arrived at Doha Hamad International Airport
到達多哈哈邁德國際機場
The airport is really giant, but I really don't understand art
機場好大，不過我一點藝術細胞都沒
Time to heading to the lounge. Qatar Airways operates numbers of lounges: the pay-par-use Oryx lounge, the Business Class lounge for its frequent flyers, the First Class Lounge and the Al Mourjan Business Class Lounge. And I'm only to eligible to the Al Mourjan lounge, the largest in the world.
卡塔爾航空在多哈有多個貴賓室：付費使用的Oryx貴賓室，卡塔爾航空金卡持有者使用的Business Class貴賓室，頭等艙貴賓室及今次我去的——全世界最大的Al Mourjan商務艙貴賓室
The entrance of the lounge
貴賓室入口
Dinning area
餐廳
Bar
酒吧
Self served buffet
自助餐
How large it is? Indescribable...
究竟有幾大？無法形容
One of the resting area, it also has "quiet area" for sleeping
其中一個休息區域，還有安靜區域供旅客訓覺
Restaurant
餐廳
Espresso machines and pastries everywhere in the lounge
隨處可見的咖啡機同麵包
There's a meeting room in the business area
會議室在辦公區域中
Spiral staircase to the upper floor dining area, it's just impossible to show in pictures the size and all the features in this lounge... It's THE BESTEST LOUNGE I HAVE BEEN!
旋轉樓梯前往二樓用餐區域。完全不能用圖片表示貴賓室所有的功能和大小。絕對是我去過最好的貴賓室！
OneWorld special livery!
寰宇一家特別塗裝
A7-BAG
Boeing 777-3DZER
GE90 engines
First flight 29/09/2009, Age: 6 years
This plane looks like this, photo from planefinder.net
Plenty of legroom!
腳伸到長D，覺都訓得lum D
One of the flight attendants told me on the previous flight that he hates flying London and Paris because the flight is always full and the layover is always short, London flights are always "hell flights". Instead, he loves to fly to Montreal and Atlanta, because Montreal and Atlanta all have 2 days of layover!
之前一位空少話我知，佢最憎飛倫敦同巴黎，因為倫敦巴黎班永遠都是全滿而且停留時間亦非常短。佢最鐘意就係飛蒙特利爾同亞特蘭大，因為有兩日的外站停留！
Once you start flying Business Class, you never want to go back to Economy
搭咗一次就唔想返經濟艙了...
Messi!
美斯啊！
Sands everywhere
到處都係沙
Appetizer
前菜
Main course. As always, I don't remember what is it, but it tastes something like curry
主菜，唔知道系乜，不過好似咖喱
Opera?
Can you see the London City Airport?
睇到倫敦城市機場嗎？
You can see clearly from the pattern that the flight is avoiding conflict zones
好明顯飛機是繞過了戰亂區域
LHR Terminal 4, I can skip the custom queue by using the Fast Track Pass, but the custom officer told me the queue is normally 2 hours long...
希斯羅4號航廈，因為Fast Track Pass的關係我可以唔排隊，不過海關姐姐同我話呢度平時要排2個鐘以上！
Taking the lesson of last time, this time I'm taking the Heathrow Connect, which doesn't require any transfer and the train is empty!
吸取上次教訓，今次直接乘坐希斯羅連接前往柏丁頓。車廂很空！
More stops though...
只是停靠多些車站而已
個人覺得希斯羅連接更像關空快速，而希斯羅特快就像Hakura
Arrived at Paddington.
Conclusion: to be honest, there's nothing to complain about Qatar Airways, especially when I'm flying the Business Class. However, all the front line people working for this companies are foreigners, no Qatari works for this airline as flight attendant. Also, I think it's dangerous that on a flight from China to Qatar, which most of the passengers don't speak English, dosen't have at least 1 crew member who speaks Chinese and the safety video is in English and Arabic only. I don't think Qatar Airways will remain as my first choice in the future but for this time, is an eye-opener experience.
到達柏丁頓車站
總結：其實，以卡塔爾航空的質素，是完全沒也可以投訴。只不過小弟覺得奇怪的是，一架由廣州前往多哈的飛機，大多數都係唔識講英文的廣州阿伯，不單只全機沒人識講中文，連中文安全短片都沒有，我覺得是極之危險。另外，卡塔爾航空是完全沒卡塔爾籍的前線工作人員，為什麼？因為... 人家是油王！總的來說，卡塔爾航空以後應該唔會系我的首選，但今次真系開眼界！
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