All Qatar Airways articles – Page 15
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Direct Maintenance to service Qatar in Uganda
Qatar Airways has extended its partnership with Netherlands-headquartered Direct Maintenance to cover line support of the airline in Entebbe.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Will Qatar come for IndiGo?
India’s aviation industry was buzzing with anticipation after media reports last week said the country’s largest low-cost carrier IndiGo was in talks to sell a stake to Gulf giant Qatar Airways.
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NewsPARIS: Qatar's Al Baker again threatens to exit Oneworld
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker has reiterated a threat to leave the Oneworld alliance if the ongoing subsidies dispute between Gulf carriers and three US mainline carriers is not resolved.
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NewsPARIS: Qatar orders 10 777-8Xs and four more 777Fs
Qatar Airways has placed an order for 10 777-8Xs and four 777 Freighters.
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NewsFirst A350-1000 for Qatar achieves definition freeze
Qatar Airways’ first Airbus A350-1000 has reached the stage of contractual definition freeze.
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IATA: Oneworld works round Gulf row tensions
Suggestions that strained relations between the US and Gulf majors over subsidies could prompt Qatar Airways to consider leaving Oneworld, were played down by the alliance which points to productive meetings between its members at IATA's Annual General Meeting.
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PARIS: Qatar to display record five aircraft
Qatar Airways is to showcase five aircraft at Paris – a record for one airline and two more than it had on display at Farnborough last year, which was itself unprecedented.
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NewsUrgency enters US airlines push to limit capacity in Gulf row
The chief executives of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines gathered to reiterate the need to limit the expansion of the Gulf carriers to USA, adding a newfound sense urgency to the issue they began pushing in January.
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American has no qualms with Qatar despite subsidy row: CEO
American Airlines has no hard feelings towards its partner Qatar Airways despite allegations of billions of dollars in government subsidies, says American chairman and chief executive Doug Parker.
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NewsUS-Gulf subsidies row 'bullying tactic': Al Baker
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker remains defiant amidst an onslaught of accusations from US mainline carriers that his airline received state subsidies, and plans to continue expanding into the USA.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Thai’s fighting retreat from Europe
Thai Airways’ planned capacity cuts on European routes this summer marks a turning point in the carrier’s history, as it faces a perfect storm of declining European tourist arrivals, a falling Euro, and increasing pressure from Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways.
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Qatar Airways tie-up brings RAM closer to Oneworld
Royal Air Maroc is entering a partnership with Oneworld carrier Qatar Airways which will involve a commercial tie-up centred on their services between Casablanca and Doha.
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Qatar to add three US destinations amidst subsidies row
Qatar Airways will begin service to three US cities in 2016, expanding its network even as it faces pushback from mainline US carriers.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Middle East carriers slurp Vietnam Airlines' pho
Vietnam experienced strong growth in visitor arrivals from Western Europe in 2014, but this correlated with heavy capacity growth to Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi in recent years by the big three Middle Eastern carriers.
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Qatar Airways expands codeshare with Cathay Pacific and JAL
Qatar Airways has expanded its codeshare with Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines (JAL).
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NewsINTERIORS: Middle Eastern carriers show their Gulf in class
Twenty years ago the idea that routes from Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow would be some of the busiest trunk operations in the world would have been hard to imagine. Fast forward to 2015, though, and that faintly ridiculous notion has become an impressive reality.
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NewsINTERIORS: A350 XWB provides bigger canvas for airlines
When Qatar Airways’ chief executive, Akbar Al Baker, took delivery of his company’s first Airbus A350-900 in Toulouse on 22 December 2014, he did so with a broad smile, happy with the latest addition to the fleet.
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Qatar to open new Tanzanian route
Oneworld alliance partner Qatar Airways is to open services to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar in the second half of the year.
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Qatar looking to expand investments in other airlines
Qatar Airways is aiming to increase its near-10% shareholding in European airline group IAG and invest in other carriers too, chief executive Akbar Al Baker confirms.
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NewsSecond A350 to up ante in Qatar's battle with Lufthansa
Qatar Airways is today taking delivery of its second Airbus A350, which – like the first – will be used to operate Doha-Frankfurt flights.