Qatar

Pure chance? Probably not. Last April, Qatar Airways announced the launch in June of three weekly flights between Doha and Abidjan by Boeing 787, inaugurating its fourth route since the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The Qatari carrier also took the opportunity to sign an interline agreement with local carrier Air Côte d'Ivoire....

Qatar Airways is grounding thirteen of its Airbus A350 aircraft. The reason? Problems with peeling paint on the fuselage. In a press release, Qatar Airways said it had grounded 13 Airbus A350s out of a total of 53 aircraft. The Qatari carrier justifies this decision by "reinforced monitoring of the aircraft", for which "the...

According to the latest research from ForwardKeys, which analyses flight booking data, a mini-revolution has taken place in the Gulf. For the first time in the first half of 2021, Doha International Airport has become the region's most important hub. It has thus caught up with and even overtaken...

On 25 June 2021, Qatar Airways introduced its latest aircraft, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner between Doha and Milan. This route offers the latest version of the carrier's business class, the Business Class Suite. Out of a total of 311 seats, Qatar Airways is offering 30 Business Class Suites on the B787-9s. The aircraft will connect Doha...

Qatar Airways is continuing to rebuild its network this season. The carrier has just announced that it will be offering more than 1,200 flights this summer, an increase of 20% compared with the winter season. Qatar Airways will in fact be serving 140 destinations during the summer peak, offering flights from 43 cities in Europe and the Mediterranean basin....

Qatar has just announced that foreign visitors and all expatriates will now have to have health insurance in order to receive treatment within the country. The announcement was made after a ministerial council meeting. The council legislated on the overhaul of the country's healthcare system, particularly in the face of the pandemic. The new...

Are touch screens on the way out? The fact remains that the health crisis has highlighted the limitations of this technology, which is practical but potentially guilty of spreading the virus... Qatar Airways has therefore just announced on 22 February that it will be using contactless in-flight entertainment technology for Oryx One. "The introduction...

"A symbol of 21st century hospitality in one of the world's finest urban development projects": this is how Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of Katara Hospitality, described the spectacular Fairmont and Raffles hotel project due to open in Lusail, Qatar, in 2022, just one year before the...

The Saudi authorities plan to fully open all the Kingdom's land, sea and air borders from 31 March, following the closures caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On that date, a new directive will authorise its citizens and legal residents to travel outside the Kingdom. This measure will finally make it possible...

For more than a year and a half, Kuwait had been leading negotiations between Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the one hand, and Qatar on the other. The aim was to re-establish diplomatic relations between all the parties. Relations with Qatar were severed abruptly. The country was...

Would you like to go to the lounge before slipping into your seat in business class? Do you like to drink only vintage champagne? Do you prefer a seat with a window? All these advantages will increasingly be offered as options in business class. A business class with drawers, as it were. Emirates...

More than 90 destinations. This is what Qatar Airways will be offering between now and 15 October. This triples the number of cities served compared with April, at the height of the pandemic. The destinations returning to the Qatar Airways network are Amman, Entebbe, Yerevan, Hanoi, the Seychelles and Windhoek. The carrier...

It was 2017, and the crisis in the Gulf pitting Qatar against Saudi Arabia and its allies had taken a dramatic turn for regional air transport. Overnight, Qatar and its national carrier Qatar Airways found themselves isolated by air, with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain...

It was just over a year ago during the ITB Berlin world tourism trade fair. The Chairman of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, was expressing his anger to the world's press at the obstructions put up by certain members of the oneworld alliance - in particular the CEOs of American Airlines and Qantas - to their...

Emirates already had a monopoly on routes between Lyon and the Gulf States since the end of 2012. Now it's Qatar Airways. At the Kuwait Air Show, the airline's flamboyant CEO, Akhbar Al Baker, announced the launch of eight new routes. The honour...

In the end, it took Qatar two years to fully absorb the shock of the blockade launched in June 2017 by its neighbours - essentially Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. This measure resulted in a total ban on Qatar-registered airlines - essentially Qatar Airways...

What is the deployment schedule for the new economy class unveiled by Qatar Airways in Paris? Frédéric Gossot - This new economy class will first be installed on the A321neo, scheduled for delivery in 2020. 50 aircraft are on order, ten of them in the long-range version. The...

What's new for Qatar Airways in the French market? Sylvain Bosc - This year has been a busy one for the airline in France, with the launch of the A350-900 in Nice on 31 March: an ultra-modern aircraft, the first of its type to serve Nice airport. In addition, on 31...

Qatar Airways is growing faster than ever, despite an environment that its CEO, the pugnacious Akbar Al Baker, describes as "complicated, particularly because of the illegal blockade orchestrated by our neighbours", he declared during the ITB Berlin press conference. "We are losing money because the blockade can add up to...

It took eight years for the European Union and the Emirate of Qatar to conclude what appears to be a historic agreement for air transport. It is historic because the negotiators of the agreement have described it as comprehensive, giving the 27 members of the European Union and Qatar unlimited and unrestricted access to...