Summary Qatar Airways currently operates eight out of ten of its Airbus A380 aircraft, flying them to five destinations worldwide. The airline has planned identical summer flying schedules in 2024 and 2025. The five destinations include Bangkok, London, Paris, Perth, and Sydney.
Qatar Airways is one of the handful of airlines that had taken delivery of Airbus A380 aircraft. While the airline was no exception and placed the type into storage during the pandemic, it eventually brought back the type as demand for travel came roaring back. Now, the Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH)-based airline is flying eight aircraft of the type, with two more, namely A7-APA and A7-APB, being stored at DOH, according to ch-aviation data.
Flying to five destinations Qatar Airways’ eight A380s are currently flying to five destinations across the world, including Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK), Paris Charles De Gaulle International Airport (CDG), London Heathrow Airport (LHR) , Perth Airport (PER), and Sydney Airport (SYD). Data from the aviation analytics company Cirium showed that in August, the airline has scheduled 38 weekly flights with the type, resulting in 19,646 weekly seats and 143.2 million weekly available seat kilometers (ASK).
Split between airports, Qatar Airways has operated daily flights to BKK, PER, and SYD , as well as three weekly flights to CDG and 14 weekly itineraries to LHR. By December, the airline’s A380 schedule should be very similar. So far, the only planned change was to remove two flights from the DOH – LHR route, resulting in 1,034 fewer weekly seats and 5.
4 million weekly ASKs. With the addition of the new slots, Qatar Airways can operate eight daily flights from London to Doha starting on October 27. Identical schedule in July 2025 Cirium data, which was available up to July 2025 so far, showed that Qatar Airways has preliminarily planned the same summer schedule with the A380.
This included the same five airports that would see the A380 the same number of times per week, with the type operating 38 weekly flights for Qatar Airways. Book your flight from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Doha Hamad International Airport (DOH) in July 2025. However, in comparison to July 2023, the Qatari carrier has planned eight fewer flights.
The main difference was that during the same month in 2023, Qatar Airways had double-daily flights to BKK, as well as four weekly itineraries to CDG. As a result, year-on-year (YoY), there has been a reduction of 4,136 weekly seats and 21.6 million weekly ASKs between July 2023 and July 2025, which also applies to July 2024 due to the latter two months’ schedules being identical.
The superjumbo continues to fly for Qatar but will be seen in Bangkok half as often. Committed to the A380 Nevertheless, Badr Mohammed Al-Meer, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Qatar Airways, has expressed his desire to keep the A380 flying for a long time, a different opinion to his predecessor, Akbar Al Baker. Previously, Al Baker expressed that buying the A380 was the airline’s biggest mistake, noting that while it was good on paper when it was launched, growing fuel prices hindered the type’s success.
Al-Meer provided a different opinion while speaking to reporters at the Farnborough International Airshow in July. According to the CEO, the A380 was a great option to operate in certain airports, with Al-Meer promising to bring upgrades to the passenger experience onboard the airline’s Superjumbo. Qatar Airways’ relatively new CEO Badar Al Meer noted that the superjumbo remains the best product for routes where airports are restricted.
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