Qatar Airways - Capacity Problems
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Qatar Airways - Capacity Problems
"Qatar is having capacity problems right now and has postponed the start of services to Australia for six months until it can bring suitably equipped aircraft into the fleet.
It now looks as though services to Melbourne will be delayed until May 2005, at least.
Also, the airline's sudden award of additional traffic rights to India by the Indian Authorities has suddenly meant that QR has had to roster planes and people almost overnight to cope with the increased frequencies. (Use them or lose them.........)
As such, the A320 and A321 fleets are being utilised to maximum capacity right now. Shortage of this aircraft has also meant erratic use of A300 and A330 on regional Middle East and sub-continental routes.
The latest A330-200 to join the fleet, A7-ACF, will arrive before the end of the year.
The 2nd A330-300, A7-AEB, is already delivered to the Doha based carrier.
Despite all of the above. QR has still managed to increase its number of daily flights to Dubai from Doha to 7 per day (previously six).
I have no idea how the infrastructure at QR is coping with this mammoth expansion. It must be buckling under the weight of it. "
It now looks as though services to Melbourne will be delayed until May 2005, at least.
Also, the airline's sudden award of additional traffic rights to India by the Indian Authorities has suddenly meant that QR has had to roster planes and people almost overnight to cope with the increased frequencies. (Use them or lose them.........)
As such, the A320 and A321 fleets are being utilised to maximum capacity right now. Shortage of this aircraft has also meant erratic use of A300 and A330 on regional Middle East and sub-continental routes.
The latest A330-200 to join the fleet, A7-ACF, will arrive before the end of the year.
The 2nd A330-300, A7-AEB, is already delivered to the Doha based carrier.
Despite all of the above. QR has still managed to increase its number of daily flights to Dubai from Doha to 7 per day (previously six).
I have no idea how the infrastructure at QR is coping with this mammoth expansion. It must be buckling under the weight of it. "
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hi,
Think indeed the apron in Doha is gettin to small to park all the planes. I guess thats why planes in bahrain en muscat have turn around time from more then 3 hours so they dont have to occupay the parking spots in doha.
And crew is payed for flight time not duty so who cares where they are waiting.
Think indeed the apron in Doha is gettin to small to park all the planes. I guess thats why planes in bahrain en muscat have turn around time from more then 3 hours so they dont have to occupay the parking spots in doha.
And crew is payed for flight time not duty so who cares where they are waiting.
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Also, the airline's sudden award of additional traffic rights to India by the Indian Authorities has suddenly meant that QR has had to roster planes and people almost overnight to cope with the increased frequencies. (Use them or lose them.........)
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This increase is definitely NOT SUDDEN. Unless you want to call a rule which has been around for three years as sudden!. In India , under what is known as "winter open skies" , carriers who already have traffic rights can apply for increased frequencies to those cities where they already operate for the five months from November to March. There is theoretically no limit to these increased frequencies. Apparently Qatar has decided to make the maximum use of it this time, literally putting every piece of spare metal they have into the Indian routes. So you have the situation of Cochin going up from 3 to 14 weekly, HYD 3 to 12 , TRV 7 to 12 weekly etc. As I heard, Qatar is the one who is making maximum use of this free for alll offer and the yeiedls are dropping like anything, now as I understand that price controls have gone as well.
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This increase is definitely NOT SUDDEN. Unless you want to call a rule which has been around for three years as sudden!. In India , under what is known as "winter open skies" , carriers who already have traffic rights can apply for increased frequencies to those cities where they already operate for the five months from November to March. There is theoretically no limit to these increased frequencies. Apparently Qatar has decided to make the maximum use of it this time, literally putting every piece of spare metal they have into the Indian routes. So you have the situation of Cochin going up from 3 to 14 weekly, HYD 3 to 12 , TRV 7 to 12 weekly etc. As I heard, Qatar is the one who is making maximum use of this free for alll offer and the yeiedls are dropping like anything, now as I understand that price controls have gone as well.
