Early Summer 2025 Trip to St. Louis and Dubai - Outbound 2: St. Maarten to Dubai Pt. 2

Alrighty folks, I had arrived to Gate D32 at Miami International Airport @ 7:31 PM. Now, I deplaned the aircraft and headed off to passport control :passport_control:. The long was very long, taking more than 30 minutes until I finally got my passport inspected. After getting my passport inspected, I proceeded to re-enter security and then looking onto the MIA airport monitor, I saw that my 11:30 PM on Qatar Flight 782 was departing from Gate E23. So proceeded through the Central Terminal and then the next thing happened, I felt like getting something to eat before heading to my gate. So I stopped by Chick-Fil-A, right by the trail, going from the D Gates to the E Gates and vise versa, to grab something to eat. So what I got was a Deluxe Chicken Sandwich :poultry_leg: :sandwich: , topped with Lettuce :leafy_green:, and Tomatoes :tomato:, waffle fries :french_fries:, a frozen strawberry lemonade :strawberry: :lemon: and a brownie. After grabbing that, I proceeded to catching the MIA plane train :train: to go from Level 1 to Level 2 to get to Gate E23. So I hope that you enjoy this lengthy second leg journey overseas to Doha Qatar :qatar:.

Second Flight: Qatar Airways Flight 782 - :palm_tree::smiling_face_with_sunglasses::united_states: Miami to Doha :qatar:
Aircraft: Airbus A350-900
Origin: Miami International Airport (KMIA)
Destination: Hamad International Airport (OTHH)
Flight Time: 13hrs 55mins
Date: 5/31/2025
Server: Expert


Alrighty, after getting off the train, I took the elevator :elevator: down to get to Gate E23 and here I am at Gate E23 MIA airport. My aircraft parked from the time it arrived at Miami from Doha at around 10:30 AM when I was in St. Maarten. Well anyways, welcome aboard Qatar Airways Flight 782 service to Doha :qatar:. Let this 13hr 55min journey begin. Got by boarding pass and passport handy. I’m also ready to get some sleep on this long journey aboard this A350-900 aircraft.


We have commenced boarding at 10:30 PM and on this aircraft, there are two classes, Business Class and Economy Class. So we all boarded through the second aircraft door, and then showing my boarding pass to the flight attendant, telling the flight attendant my seat number, and then being guided to go straight ahead and to my right to go find my seat. On my seat, there I could find a pillow and a blanket with an eye mask on top. Then once boarding was finished, the aircraft door was closed and pushed back at 11:31 PM. The flight attendant done the welcome announcement and the safety video was played, started up one engine, and here we are taxiing to RWY 27 for takeoff out of Miami before starting up the other engine


Then captain went, “Flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for takeoff”, before we began entering the runway and lining up


And off we go, as we are airborne, lifting off RWY 27 from MIA, on our way to Doha :qatar:. Til next time Miami


Then we banked to our right 180 degrees to head east, climbing above 10,000 FT, flying over the Miami area before leaving the land, entering the coastline, seeing the views of downtown Miami, South Beach :desert_island: and Miami Beach :desert_island: and making our way onto the Atlantic Ocean :ocean:, en route to Doha :qatar: as I put on my earphones :headphone: to listen to music


Then we leveled off at FL310 throughout majority of the flight. So I wrapped the plastic, took out the blanket to cover myself and a pillow to rest my head against the window as I closed the window shade. Then 45 minutes later, the flight attendant started handing out hot towels to wash our hands. Then the flight attendants started serving dinner :shallow_pan_of_food: which features either Chicken or Beef. So when the flight attendants got near my row, I opened up my tray table. Getting to my row, the flight attendant asked me if I wanted either chicken or beef. So I chose beef :cut_of_meat: . Given Beef, there serves Beef :cut_of_meat: with White Rice :cooked_rice:, Potato Wedges :potato:, and Green Beans :beans: along with a bread roll :bread: with butter :butter:, a bottle of water :droplet:, a Chicken Caesar Salad :green_salad:, and a lemon mousse cake :shortcake: :lemon:, plus I got Sprite :cup_with_straw:. After that, flight attendants walked through the aisle collecting trash :wastebasket: before I went to sleep :person_in_bed:. Then as the sun rose :sunrise:, we were waken up by the smell of breakfast :pancakes: as the flight attendants handed us hot towels, then we were served a Ham, Egg & Cheese Croissant :croissant: :sandwich: with Fruit Salad featuring Watermelon :watermelon:, Pineapple :pineapple:, Cantaloupe :melon:, and Grapes :grapes:, plus a Strawberry Yogurt :soft_ice_cream::strawberry: and Orange Juice :tangerine::beverage_box:. Then I opened up my window shade at took a quick shot of us flying over the North Atlantic Ocean :ocean:, taken from Seat 32K :seat: before flying past south of the UK :united_kingdom:, and through the European airspace. Then I closed the window shade. Then trash :wastebasket: was collected once again, and then I opened up my IFE Entertainment, and watched a movie :movie_camera: called Crazy, Stupid, Love. Then hand towels were once given before we were served lunch :stuffed_flatbread: which we given option either Steak :cut_of_meat: or Chicken :poultry_leg:. So I chose Steak :cut_of_meat: and here goes Steak :cut_of_meat: with Brown Rice :cooked_rice:, Garlic Potato Wedges :potato: :garlic:, and collard greens :leafy_green: along with a bread roll :bread: with butter :butter:, Chick pea salad, a bottle of water :droplet: and Haagen Das Vanilla Chocolate Swirl ice cream :ice_cream: :chocolate_bar: with Coke Zero :cup_with_straw:. Trash :wastebasket: was once again collected and then I went to the lavatory to use the restroom :restroom: before heading back to my seat. Then as the sun began to set :sunrise:, hand towels were once given and then served dinner again featuring a choice of chicken :poultry_leg: or beef :cut_of_meat:. So this time, chose chicken :poultry_leg:. So I got chicken :poultry_leg:, mashed potatoes :potato: and broccoli along with a bread roll :bread: and butter :butter:, Chicken Caesar Salad :green_salad:, a bottle of water :droplet: and a Strawberry Cheesecake :shortcake: :strawberry: with Dr. Pepper :cup_with_straw:. Trash :wastebasket: was once again collected. When we were less than an hour away from Doha :qatar: we got a Ham & Cheese Club Sandwich :sandwich: and an Ice Cream Bar :ice_cream: as our pre-landing snack and then trash :wastebasket: was collected after that. Then I chewed bubblegum for the remainder of the flight. That was where we step climbed to FL330, FL350, FL370, and finally FL390.


And here goes a nearly huge disaster as from what we heard from the captain, stating that they hit the APPR mode button instead of the VNAV button, to where pressing the VNAV button, it sent the plane nose diving, causing all of us to panic :scream:, as we KNOW, that there was going to be a huge disaster as to masks were dropped from the ceiling to where all of us had to wear our masks and help others around. That huge drop felt like a roller coaster and gee that scared me to death as we were about die if we crashed. Oh my god bro! Oh my lord. God forbid we’re gonna crash. Oh my lord! Then plane started raising the nose, as the pilots disengaged the autopilot, causing the plane so stall, and engaging autopilot once again, the aircraft had recovered and began our descent as normal. Thank god we didn’t crash. Thank God! That was extremely scary man. You KNOW extremely well that we all could’ve been killed if that plane crashed into that ocean :ocean:. Please bro, I don’t want my Dubai trip to be ruined amid this disaster. So anyways, we descended, seat belt sign was turned on and here we are before we banked to our left, seeing a glimpse of Doha Airport in the distance, to enter right downwind, aiming for RWY 34R for landing at DOH airport. Ladies and Gentlemen please prepare for landing


And here we are amid that scary nosedive, we were on final RWY 34R before we landed into DOH airport


Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Hamad International Airport as we have safely touched down RWY 34R into DOH airport. We exited the runway and taxied to our arrival gate Gate C5, taxiing past that Qatar B777-300ER


And thank god that we have made it to Gate C5 DOH airport @ 8:24 PM okay? If we would’ve crashed into that ocean, we would’ve all been killed.
But thankfully, our aircraft was able to recover and was able to land safely into Doha :qatar:. So time to grab my belongings, exit the plane and head over to passport control :passport_control: to have my passport inspected before re-entering security to head to my final gate for my 1:05 AM flight to Dubai :united_arab_emirates:

That completes the second leg of this Dubai :united_arab_emirates: trip. I hope you enjoyed this second except that nosedive incident. But anyways, stay tune for the third and final leg hoping that it will not be another nosedive disaster EVER again. So be safe and have a blessed night.

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Nice trip report! I’ll be flying this route in 2 weeks for my Thailand :thailand: trip!

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Sounds good @NonStopsAviation. I hope u enjoy your trip to Thailand :thailand: in two weeks and I hope that you do not nosedive during descent just like it happened to me on the second leg

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Awesome report and pics!

The fact you got that much food is mind blowing haha!

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Yeah because it was a long haul and I was served multiple times