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Baker is not happy....once again best way to resolve the issue is to go very public, w guns blazing...karma baby


Qatar Airways and construction firm lock horns in legal dispute
Sunday, December 30, 20127DAYS Follow
Qatar Airways is filing a $600 million legal claim against a construction firm for allegedly delaying the opening of Doha’s new international airport by up to a year, the carrier announced Saturday.

In a statement, Qatar Airways said it is pursuing legal action against joint-venture construction firm Lindner Depa Interiors (LDI) for failing to complete a $250 million contract to build 19 airport lounges for New Doha International Airport (NDIA) on time - meaning it could not open this month as originally scheduled.

LDI is the result of a partnership between Germany’s Lindner Group and Dubai luxury interiors firm Depa. It had its contract for the airport job terminated earlier this year.


Qatar Airways is filing a $600 million legal claim against a construction firm for allegedly delaying the opening of Doha’s new international airport by up to a year

On Saturday, Qatar Airways, which will operate the majority of flights at the new airport, listed its complaints against the company. It said LDI had “performed extremely poorly” in failing to meet construction targets.

It claimed the delay “seriously affected the airline’s expansion plans, causing huge revenue losses, increased construction costs and delay penalties, and more importantly, inconveniencing passengers”.

But in a statement released last night, LDI said it was “deeply disappointed” by the Qatar Airways statement, which it called “a false and misleading representation of the facts”.

The firm said it neither had any relationship with the airline itself nor had it received any legal claim.

But Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker was forthright in his criticism of LDI.

“We are extremely disappointed by the poor performance of LDI, which has failed to carry out the contract in a timely manner, which in turn has forced a delay of the opening of the New Doha International Airport by nearly a year,” he said.

He added: “The current airport we are operating from is already full to capacity with virtually no room to grow. We relied on moving to our new home, the New Doha International Airport this month, but this has not happened.”

The airline now anticipates the new air hub will not be completed until the second half of 2013 - a delay Al Baker said yesterday will affect everything from deliveries of new aircraft to the revenues of Qatar Duty Free.

Earlier this year LDI said delays to its work on the new airport stemmed from the fact it was “denied full access to the project for the first nine months of this 16-month project” and it also noted it was in discussions with its lawyers.

Yesterday’s strongly-worded statement released by Qatar Airways appears to set the stage for a high-profile legal clash, with LDI saying last night it was “seeking legal counsel as a result of the damage caused to its reputation based on the false and misleading information made in the Qatar Airways statement”.
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