Qatar Airways announces key expansions
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Qatar Airways announced its route expansion across three continents together with a huge increase in capacity in Pakistan as part of its continued aggressive growth strategy.
Addis Ababa will be launched on 18 September, followed a month later by Clark International Airport in the Philippines from 28 October.
Effective 1 March 2014, the airline will connect Philadelphia. In addition, Qatar Airways is significantly increasing capacity to Pakistan where it currently operates 17 flights each week across four cities of Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar.
Beginning next month from 1 June, the airline will step up frequency to Pakistan by 60% to 28 flights each week – Karachi up from daily to double daily; Lahore from four to seven flights a week; and Peshawar securing an additional flight to three services each week.
Qatar Airways’ chief executive officer, Akbar Al Baker said: “Our three new routes show we have faith in expanding our operations across different continents. This year has certainly been the year of growth in the Middle East with five of our eight scheduled route launches in the region alone. Philadelphia is one of the major hubs of the soon-to-be-merged American Airlines/US Airways and will provide Qatar Airways’ customers with onward connections to over 100 cities.”
He further added: “Joining the oneworld global alliance later this year will also present tremendous travel options and benefits to our passengers and to those of partner carriers in the alliance.”
