Qatar Airways inaugurated flights between Doha and Toulouse on Tuesday 18 July, marking the airline’s latest efforts to expand its network in France. The 4,955-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with the 260-seat A330-300 aircraft. The oneworld member faces no competition on the route. Flight QR47 departs Doha at 08:25 […]
July 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways has 1,880 departing passenger flights each week from its Doha hub in August, based on Cirium schedules information. Some 522 are to Europe, making it the airline’s second-largest region behind Asia-Pacific. Europe accounts for just over one in four flights (27.8%), down by almost nine percentage points versus August 2019. Europe remains by […]
July 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qatar Airways launched seasonal operations between Doha and Trabzon on Friday 16 June. The 2,060-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with flights to operate until 22 August using the A320 aircraft. The airline will compete directly against Pegasus Airlines’ 2-weekly seasonal service between the two cities. Qatar Airways initially planned […]
June 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
More than 100 European airports have Middle East flights this winter. With 250,000 one-way seats, Düsseldorf ranks 21st, based on Cirium schedules information data. Capacity has risen by a 13% versus W19, helped by the launch of various new routes – including daily service from Doha with Qatar Airways. Five new and resuming Middle East […]
November 23, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
International long-haul traffic was hit especially hard by the pandemic, with many Asian countries in particular imposing extremely severe restrictions on foreign visitors. Some of these markets are still only just opening up to international passenger flights. For many European travellers, a popular way of reaching many key Asian markets was to use one of […]
November 21, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qatar Airways launched its first new European route of 2022 when it added non-stop service from Doha to Santorini in Greece on 7 June. There will be 3-weekly flights on the 2,775-kilometre route which is not operated by any other carrier. The route will be flown utilising the airline’s two-class, 144-seat A320s. It becomes the […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The latest TSA passenger statistics reveal that US demand for air travel last week was between 80% and 85% of the level achieved during the same period in 2019. This is the second week in a row that this has been the rate of recovery. Will it reach 90% (or even better) by the start […]
February 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
Qatar Airways launched its latest new route on Thursday 9 December from Doha to Odessa in Ukraine. The 3,000-kilometre route will be served 3-weekly (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) using the airline’s 132-seat A320s and faces no direct competition. This becomes the airline’s second route to Ukraine as it already serves Kiev KBP with 2-daily flights. […]
December 10, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways has (again) switched airports in Moscow. On Sunday 31 October the oneworld carrier transferred its daily Doha service from Moscow DME to Moscow SVO. The 3,600-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s 777-300ERs. Qatar Airways originally began serving Moscow in July 2003 when flights were also to Sheremetyevo. However, in September 2004 […]
November 2, 2021 | Latest Route News +