All the Qatar Government aircraft are painted in the Qatar Airways scheme. It looks more sensible on the Airbus fleet which is indistinctive from the Qatar Airways mainline aircraft, however on the Biz Jets it is slightly more obvious who they operate for which makes them look quite strange 😀

The only exception is the 747SP which lives at Bournemouth which has its own scheme, although I’m not sure its technically a government aircraft.

So do we know if the A330 in the photo is also a gov’t issue?

What’s the deal with the Qatar Challenger/Global Express?

And more to the point – does anybody care?

I concurr. This thread is almost as bad as the ‘hello’ thread in the GD forum. One of the mods, put a lock on this thing already!

It’s designed to scare birds away to prevent bird strikes.

I thought T5 was destined for the Oneworld airlines :confused:

That’s what I thought too. It’s sounds logical, for easier connection from one ONEworld carrier to the other. As far as T4 goes, location and nightmares aside, wouldn’t it also be logical for Star to operate out of a single terminal for reasons stated above?

What’s going to happen to T4 then?

Has MAN become a PIA hub or something ? 😀

My thoughts exactly. Now for a few questions:

1) Do they have 4 dailies into MAN from Karachi, or where-ever they’re based?
2) Does PIA plan on using their LR’s for routes where they actually need the extra range?
3) Is PIA the launch customer for the -LR?
4) Do the engines on the LR have a bigger diameter than the all the previous models?

AC is a good airline. I’ve flown them long and short haul. Most people will immediately jump on them due to lack of PTV’s, but I flew them HNL-SYD and service, food, etc., was pretty good. I’ve gone away from flying them, however, in the last year or so as they have tightened their policy of mileage accrual for their partner airlines. I flew them from ORD to YUL in Sept. of 2004 and I didn’t get credit for those flights. I called United and I was told that a few months prior to that mileage plus members can now only get credit on AC flights on certain classes of fares (I believe H class) and higher. So I avoid them now, and luckily UA puts their own metal on a lot of the routes AC used to fly exclusively with a UA codeshare.