Qatar Ceo "sneers" at Lufthansa: "Nice new business, but comes 10 years late"
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If you are the CEO of the best company in the world, the one that with its QSuite has redefined the standard of the business class cabins and that Fly from Doha, the airport that for the past 2 years can boast of being the best airport in the world, you can afford to say whatever you want in the aviation world.
Al Baker never mundane
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For two years he has been slugging it out with Airbus over the paint issue, called the A380 the worst aircraft never entered service and the biggest mistake he made as CEO of Qatar.
He has been the number one of the nation's flag carrier since 1997, and when he Akbar Al Baker speaks is never trivial and above all Does not use turns of phrase strikes without concern for political correctness.
What he said about Lufthansa
In recent days we have talked about the Lufthansa's new premium cabins, a revolution called Allegris which will finally renew the veturste first class, business and premium economy configurations aboard Lufthansa aircraft first, and other group airlines later.
We are no one in this world, but even in our article we pointed out how the new features announced by LH are the same as those that were released in 2017 and were due to enter service in 2020, they are now scheduled to enter service in 2025, barring further schedule changes.
At the recent ITB in Berlin, Qatar made many announcements, first of all announced many new routes and many new frequencies, including over Italy.
A question session was held at the end of the conference, and Qatar's CEO did not back down on any topic, and to the reporter who asked if he had seen Lufthansa's new premium product, he replied as follows:
"Yes I have seen the pictures. Congratulations to him (the CEO of Lufthansa), but he is almost 12 years behind OUR product. And as he brings forward this new program, we are working on our next evolution We are adversaries in business -- but he is my friend, and if he invites me, I will definitely fly in his product and tell him how many mistakes he has made."
Al Baker also did not miss some nastiness toward LH, pointing out precisely the fact that the new product is the same one that was supposed to arrive in 2020. Here is how he responded to the German journalist's question:
"Let's see when the product will be on board. You know, you can always announce a product, but it takes years to install the cabins. Do you know how long it takes to develop the seat? You know, the Qsuite you see flying on Qatar Airways had been in development for almost five years."
In conclusion
The QSuite is really playing in a different league, it is unrivaled in the world right now and LH's cabin certainly won't be able to hold Qatar back and with the arrival (sooner or later) of the 777X Qatar is poised to amaze the world with the Qsuite 3.0
