So, not content with 6 daily flights, including 2 of those flights being on an A380, a codeshare on the BA flight to make 7 daily, they now want an extra flight into LGW? Just how much capacity does the DOH-LON market need exactly?
They're not commercially driven here, it's partly about QR being an arm of the Qatari state, the same country whose citizens own the shard and finance ISIS at the same time as sponsoring the weather on SKY.
They
have recently dropped LGW in favour of a second daily MAN back in the summer of 2011 so they know the market quite well, Emirates still run three daily out of Gatters even with five A388s out of LHR, feeding connections on from Doha. Thas has nothing to do with people actually going to Doha.