Qatar Airways All Set to Route Dreamliners to India

Qatar Airways’ fans expecting to grab tickets to fly aboard the sleek Boeing 787 Dreamliners now have the opportunity to realise their fantasy. The premium full service carrier has announced to extend its Boeing 787 Dreamliner route network to India.

The popular Middle Eastern carrier is all set to start offering tickets aboard its Boeing 787 aircraft to and from Delhi and Bangalore in India, services starting from September 1 2013. 

The aircraft have been configured to accommodate 254 custom-made seats including 22 in Business Class and 232 in Economy Class cabins. The higher number of economy class seats on the airliners will ensure that budget travellers looking for relatively cheap tickets aboard Qatar Airways’ full service flights are a happy lot.  

Industry insiders reveal that India has long been a key market for Qatar Airways and the carrier offers tickets aboard 95 passenger flights non-stop each week from 12 gateway cities to its hub in Doha. 

Presently, the carrier offers tickets on daily flights between Doha and Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Amritsar, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Trivandrum, Chennai and Bangalore in India along with 11 weekly flights from Cochin and double daily flights from India’s capital city - Delhi.

Those who net tickets aboard Qatar Airways’ flights departing from India will be able to connect to popular destinations such as London, New York, Montreal, Washington, Dubai, Nairobi, Paris, Frankfurt and Oslo via Doha. 

With its hub at Doha International Airport, Qatar Airways offers tickets for flights on its extensive network of destinations in Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Europe, Africa and North America.

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Qatar Airways Adds Uganda, Azerbaijan and Georgia to Its Network

Continuing with its aggressive expansion plans, Qatar Airways yesterday announced the launch of three new routes out of Doha this year.

Qatar Airways, the flag airline of Qatar, will roll out flights from its hub at Doha airport to Uganda, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The carrier will launch daily non-stop flights to Entebbe, Uganda’s second largest city from November 2. Four weeks later, the airline will start daily non-stop flights to Baku, Azerbaijan continuing onto Tbilisi, Georgia.

The new routes will be served by the carrier’s Airbus A320. Qatar Airways will be offering tickets for 12 business class seats. While, for those looking for economy class cheap tickets on these flights, 132 economy class seats will be available.

The announcement was made by Qatar Airways’ Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker at the opening day of the Arabian Travel Market, one of the Middle East’s premier travel trade shows. At the press conference of the travel show, Al Baker observed that Uganda, Azerbaijan and Georgia are massively underserved by the global airlines.

“But there is clearly demand and huge potential and, as a network global carrier, we are able to fulfil the needs of the travelling public from these three countries and for those wanting to travel there from markets we serve around the world,” Qatar Airways’ website quoted Al Baker as stating.

“Qatar Airways already has a successful operation to the Russian capital Moscow. Expanding our presence deeper into Central Asia has been a focus of ours for some time so it is with extreme delight to be able to announce we will soon have new routes to add in this part of the world.

“And we are pleased to be reinforcing our presence in Africa, four years after our last move there when we launched flights to Tanzania’s capital city of Dar es Salaam. Adding Entebbe provides us with another foothold deeper into the African continent, where we already serve 15 destinations. We are confident this route start-up will be as successful as the others being planned,” he further added.

Qatar Airways is one of the very few airlines that enjoy 5-star ratings by Skytrax, so one can be well assured of the quality of on-board services and amenities offered by the airline. The airline may not be the cheapest of the lot but budget travellers who wish to enjoy the very best of on-board luxuries can book well in advance to grab cheap tickets on flights.

Qatar Airways’ Aggressive Expansion
Qatar Airways has been on a kind of expansion roll for some time now. The airline launched flights to Bucharest, Budapest and Brussels in January, to Germany’s Stuttgart in March and to Syria’s Aleppo in April.

The carrier also awaits the start of operations to Shiraz, Venice and Montreal in June; Kolkata in July; Sofia in September and Oslo in October.