Qatari A321's to Enter Service
QR's first A321's are joining the fleet within the next few days, and will primarily be used on dense regional routes, to places such as BEY, AMM, CAI, AUH and KRT.
Interestingly, the aircraft will join a fleet family (A320) that QR is already having difficulty in managing, given the shortage of flight deck crew.
Several routes normally flown by the A320, such as KTM/KUL, MCT, KRT and MLE are seeing services being replaced by A300-600's, which is a fleet with "adequate" crewing levels. In fact, despite having recently taken two additional A330's on lease from GPA (ex-Volare of Italy aircraft, A7-AFN and A7-AFO), Qatar will also take on lease ANOTHER A300-600, bringing that fleet number to ten aircraft.
Melbourne will commence in November - using A330's, we presume, operating via KUL.
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