Qatar Airways Route Expansion
From the Qatar Peninsula(27/2):
"Qatar Airways will begin flying to Rome, Manchester, Kochi and Islamabad in a couple of months, expanding its route network to 42 global destinations. The airline's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Akbar Al Baker, told reporters yesterday: "I am pleased to announce that Qatar Airways will be offering its customers a greater choice of destinations".
The airline will fly four times a week to Manchester using an Airbus A300, bringing total weekly flights to the United Kingdom to 15 per week, said Akbar.
The flights to Manchester will mean that Qatar Airways' customers could enter the UK via Heathrow or Manchester. "We will fly direct to Manchester on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays," the CEO said.
From June 16, the airline will begin flights to Rome four times a week in association with its existing flights to Milan. "We will fly a circular route to Doha-Rome-Milan-Doha, reversing the circular route twice a week," Akbar added.
This means that the airline will be offering direct flights to Rome twice a week, direct flights to Milan twice a week, and flights to both the Italian cities four times a week. "It will also allow us to offer our customers entry points into the northern and southern regions of Italy," said the CEO.
The airline will fly Doha-Rome-Milan-Doha on Mondays and Wednesdays and Doha-Milan-Rome-Doha on Fridays and Sundays.
The airline will launch flights to Islamabad on March 31 with convenient connections to Manchester via Doha. "From March 31, Qatar Airways will be serving the Pakistani cities of Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar 13 times a week," said Akbar.
The airline will fly twice a week to Islamabad, twice a week to Lahore, seven times a week to Karachi and twice a week to Peshawar. The flights will leave for Islamabad every Monday and Thursday.
From next week, Qatar Airways will begin flights to Kochi, in the South Indian state of Kerala. "We will fly three times a week to Kochi using A300 and A320 aircraft.
The flights will leave on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. "With its inaugural flight on March 6, Qatar Airways will be serving the Indian cities of Kochi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram with 19 flights a week," said the airline's CEO.
Meanwhile, he added that the airline received its third A330 aircraft this month and will take delivery of the fourth A330-200 next month."