{"id":2331,"date":"2017-02-18T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2017-08-19T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T02:41:22","slug":"20170217qr142-qr896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/18\/20170217qr142-qr896\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Log of Qatar Airways Flight 142 \/ 896 from Barcelona to Beijing via Doha on February 17th, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three days of Barcelona shall round off my four week’s roaming the world, and it’s about time I get back to school before the registration period ended for my last undergraduate semester.
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\"Drop-off<\/a>

<\/br>Drop-off Driveway in Barcelona Airport Terminal 1<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n


\nThe images in this post are hosted on Imgur. Email me should there be any display problems.<\/span>
\nDuring this trip my camera totally broke down, so I took all the photos with my cell phone.<\/span><\/p>\n

There had been some issues with the return tickets of Aerobus, as the round-trip tickets I purchased three days ago weren’t where they were supposed to be (I won’t blame myself given how many receipts I had with myself at that time). The problem was resolved with some good<\/del> rummage of my suitcase.
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\"Barcelona<\/a>

<\/br>Barcelona Airport Interior<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

We arrived at Barcelona Airport a little more than two hours before flight, and amazingly, there weren’t many people waiting at the check-in counters (well, this wasn’t Spanish at all). <\/p>\n

\"Shops<\/a>

<\/br>Shops in Lower Floor of Barcelona Airport<\/br>Since neither of us was interested in shopping, we went right past passport control, after which there weren\u2019t any shops.<\/span><\/p><\/div>
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\"Swiss<\/a>

<\/br>Swiss Airlines A321 and Air France A319<\/p><\/div>
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\"Boarding<\/a>

<\/br>Boarding Passes<\/p><\/div>
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\"Tail<\/a>

<\/br>Tail of Qatar Airways A332 (A7-ACB) among Planes at Barcelona Airport<\/p><\/div>
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\"Qatar<\/a>

<\/br>Qatar Airways A332 (A7-ACB)<\/p><\/div>
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\"Private<\/a>

<\/br>Private Jet<\/p><\/div>
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\"Lights<\/a>

<\/br>Lights of Barcelona Airport Terminal 1<\/p><\/div>
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\"Downtown<\/a>

<\/br>Downtown Barcelona in the Distance<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

This time we took off on Runway 25L with immediate left turn (predictable given the prevalent west wind), which meant there wasn’t much sight of the spectacular city of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

GPS tracks of QR142 arehere<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/a>

<\/br>Dinner Service<\/br>Beef Potato and Beans<\/span><\/p><\/div>
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\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Beni Suef South of Cairo<\/p><\/div>
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\"Saudi<\/a>

<\/br>Saudi Arabia Town of Asbtar<\/p><\/div>
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\"Saudi<\/a>

<\/br>Saudi Arabia Town of Uyun Al Jawa<\/p><\/div>
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\"Saudi<\/a>

<\/br>Saudi Arabia City of Buraydah<\/p><\/div>
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\"Saudi<\/a>

<\/br>Saudi Arabia City of Buraydah<\/p><\/div>
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\"Saudi<\/a>

<\/br>Saudi Arabia Town of Ash Shimasiyah<\/p><\/div>
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\"Qatar<\/a>

<\/br>Qatar City of Dukhan<\/p><\/div>
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\"Camel<\/a>

<\/br>Camel Race Track in West Qatar Along Dukhan Highway<\/p><\/div>
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\"Sunrise<\/a>

<\/br>Sunrise Glow over East Qatar Shoreline<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over City of Doha at Dawn<\/p><\/div>
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\"Port<\/a>

<\/br>Port of Mesaieed<\/p><\/div>
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\"Flying<\/a>

<\/br>Flying over Al Wakrah before Landing in Doha<\/p><\/div>
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\"Ras<\/a>

<\/br>Ras Abu Fontas Kahrama Water Desalination Station<\/p><\/div>
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\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes at Doha Airport Apron<\/p><\/div>
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\"Sunset<\/a>

<\/br>Sunset over Doha<\/p><\/div>
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\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes Parked at Doha Airport<\/p><\/div>
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\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes Parked at Doha Airport<\/p><\/div>
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\"Doha<\/a>

<\/br>Doha Airport Arrival Passage<\/br>Well, first time to use jet bridge for arrival at Doha.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

It was a five-hour long transit at Doha for my flight to Beijing at 11am (I guess this is because Qatar Airways couldn’t manage to get a better landing slot at Beijing), as I watched a bustling airport turned quiet after the morning rush while watching Japanese animations. <\/p>\n

One thing to mention, it seemed that Doha airport changed its WiFi policy. It used to be that as long as you can connect to its “Complimentary-WiFi” you would get Internet access. Now they replaced that with a new “Hashtag-Complimentary-WiFi”, which was authenticated with Qatar Airways PNR. Well, if the WiFi was indeed sponsored by Qatar Airways, calling it “Qatar-Airways-Complimentary-WiFi” would hurt non-Qatar-Airways passengers less.<\/p>\n

\"Qatar<\/a>

<\/br>Qatar Airways Boeing 77W<\/p><\/div>
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\"Boarding<\/a>

<\/br>Boarding Flight (A7-BAW) to Beijing<\/p><\/div>
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\"Doha<\/a>

<\/br>Doha Airport at Day<\/br>With downtown Doha in the distance.<\/span><\/p><\/div>
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\"Doha<\/a>

<\/br>Doha Airport Passenger Terminal at Day<\/p><\/div>
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\"Doha<\/a>

<\/br>Doha Airport Passenger Terminal at Day<\/p><\/div>
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\"Harbor<\/a>

<\/br>Harbor by Doha<\/p><\/div>
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\"Downtown<\/a>

<\/br>Downtown Doha<\/p><\/div>
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\"Exclusive<\/a>

<\/br>Exclusive Residential Buildings in North Doha<\/p><\/div>
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\"Al<\/a>

<\/br>Al Aaliya Island<\/p><\/div>
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\"Island<\/a>

<\/br>Island in Persian Gulf behind Clouds<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

It was a bumpy ride that day throughout the whole climb over Persian Gulf, with meal services being interrupted several times for turbulence. <\/p>\n

\"Lavan<\/a>

<\/br>Lavan Island<\/p><\/div>
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\"Mountain<\/a>

<\/br>Mountain Ranges in South Iran<\/p><\/div>
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\"Lunch<\/a>

<\/br>Lunch Services<\/br>The gentleman cabin crew insisted<\/del> highly recommended us chicken potato.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

After lunch I slept all the way into China, woke up just before dinner time.<\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/a>

<\/br>Dinner Services<\/br>I picked beef and rice, although the same gentleman cabin crew still insisted chicken.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

One aspect I wasn’t so fond of Qatar Airways on these trips, it seemed that there was always this gap between the second meal services and landing. This was particular on this flight into Beijing, when they retrieved all the food trays and shut the lights for more than an hour before turning them on again for landing preparation. <\/p>\n

\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Baotou(\u5305\u5934)<\/p><\/div>
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\"City<\/a>

<\/br>City of Baotou(\u5305\u5934)<\/p><\/div>
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\"Sixth<\/a>

<\/br>Sixth Ring Expressway in Southwest Beijing<\/p><\/div>
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\"Streets<\/a>

<\/br>Streets in East Beijing<\/p><\/div>
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\"Airport<\/a>

<\/br>Airport Expressway in Beijing<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, that night we landed in the wrong runway of Beijing Airport which was 36L. And the incompetent Chinese airport controllers recently learned that the only way to prevent runway incursions like the Hongqiao<\/a> ones was to not cross runway at all. So we taxied all the way around the airport, and reached our gate 24 minutes after landing, even if there wasn’t any traffic jam on the taxiways.<\/p>\n

\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes Parked at Beijing Airport T3E<\/p><\/div>
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\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes Parked at Beijing Airport T3E<\/p><\/div>
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\"Planes<\/a>

<\/br>Planes Parked at Beijing Airport T3E<\/p><\/div>
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\"International<\/a>

<\/br>International Part of Beijing Airport Terminal 3<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

The incompetence of Beijing Airport didn’t stop at its controllers, as I waited at the belt for nearly an hour for my checked bags. No, Beijing doesn’t have the stupid baggage drop systems like the Shanghai ones, it’s just incompetence.
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