Qatar

Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, is not known for mincing his words. And in recent weeks, his wrath has been directed at the Oneworld alliance, which Qatar Airways joined in 2013. The CEO of Qatar Airways has expressed his frustration at being part of a group which, in fact, does not allow him to satisfy his...

2017 will be remembered as an eventful year for Qatar Airways. It started well enough with the launch of a business class that had no equivalent until then: the QSuite, with its removable seat that can be used to create a double bed as well as a workspace or dining area for four. Then came July and...

Qatar Airways announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement to buy 378,188,000 shares in Cathay Pacific. The Qatari company is thus acquiring 9.61% of Cathay's capital. immense potential for the future The directors of Qatar Airways are therefore affirming their confidence in the Asian carrier. "Qatar Airways is very pleased to finalise...

The presence of a cabin model of the QSuite at the IFTM Top Resa show gave the travel industry an idea of the comfort of the QSuite, which is now available on the Paris route. "We are the second route in Europe after London Heathrow, which has welcomed the new business configuration since mid-August....

Crises are sometimes a good thing. They force governments to take radical decisions, especially when a country's economy or prosperity is at stake. The severing of diplomatic relations with Qatar by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen has effectively isolated the micro-Emirate geographically. But what about?

The summer period is often very quiet, sometimes too quiet. Fortunately, Qatar Airways is no slouch when it comes to news: a few days after its bid to acquire a stake in American Airlines, and against a backdrop of turbulent diplomatic relations with its Gulf neighbours, the Doha-based carrier is making its presence felt this week on the French market...

Qatar Airways has been banned not only from serving Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, but also from overflying their airspace. As a result, flights to the west of Doha are now problematic. The ban on overflying these countries is forcing the airline to...

Here's a press release that's likely to cause quite a stir. In seven terse lines, sent to the media on Thursday afternoon, Qatar Airways unveils its capital-intensive ambitions targeting American Airlines. The Doha-based airline says it "sees a strong investment opportunity in American Airlines". The press release continues: "Qatar Airways believes in the fundamentals of American Airlines and...

A world first in the aviation industry, a "revolutionary experience": when Qatar Airways unveiled its brand new QSuite in Berlin on 8 March, the airline's directors did not skimp on the historic aspect of the launch. It has to be said that the concept developed over a two-year period by the airline is a radical rethink of business class,...

A vase-shaped tower, another pointed, a third twisted... This is the landscape that appears on the horizon as the taxi approaches Doha's West Bay, conquered by the vertical. Barely ten years ago, it was still flat, it seems. Clearly, we haven't wasted any time...

You arrived in Doha in 2005. What has changed since then? Valérie Ward - When I first came here, it was a fairly small city, albeit already congested. It really took off in 2006 with the organisation of the Asian Games. The roads and souk were rebuilt, hotels were built, Katara was...

A city within a city, with an office complex, residences, a sandy beach, a hydrotherapy centre and the blue ripples of its pools in the middle of West Bay, Doha's new 'place to be', a chic and trendy business district that was still a desert four years ago...

Qatar: Oil windfall Established in 1971, like the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, a nation barely 40 years old, already has the second highest GDP per capita in the world. Above all, it has one of the fastest-growing economies in the region. And in Doha, it shows. Here, a tower designed by Jean Nouvel is covered...