The carrier's chief executive Akbar Al Baker confirmed the move during a visit to Cardiff, from where Qatar Airways is set to increase its frequency from five days a week to a daily service from next month.
Qatar Airways, which bills itself as ‘the world’s five-star airline’, insists it wants to keep expanding in the UK, where it already flies to four destinations, and later this month will add London Gatwick as a fifth.
And Mr Baker said he "wants to launch services from Belfast as our next UK departure point".
Taken from the BFS thread - assuming that quote is accurate, my money would be on Belfast...
Anyway, don't think EK will be too worried by Qatar or Turkish - seem to compete quite happily elsewhere