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Qatar Airways has announced that it will significantly increase
its frequencies to Germany and other European destinations this year, as it
prepares to start a new non-stop service to Zurich in July. Qatar Airways' Chief Executive Officer Mr Al Baker
said at the ITB in Berlin that the airline has recently increased combined
frequencies to Frankfurt and Munich by four flights a week.
"As part of our ongoing commitment to the German market we have
recently added two additional frequencies to each of our services to Munich
and Frankfurt," said Mr Al Baker.
"This means we're now flying to Munich five times a week and to Frankfurt
six times per week, connecting with Germany eleven times per week.
"We are also adding frequencies to other destinations in our growing
European network.
"We have recently increased our frequencies to Vienna by two flights per
week, flying to the Austrian capital five times each week.
"Qatar Airways will also be adding an additional frequency to Paris to fly
daily non-stop from June 1.
"From July 8 we will also be starting our non-stop service to Zurich. This
will be a four-times-a-week service that will use our long range A319, and
give people in Switzerland easy access to the rest of our network.
"With the new frequencies we are touching down at one of our nine
European destinations 50 times each week. After adding Zurich to our route
network, we will be flying to a European city 54 times per week," said Mr Al
Baker.
"Both the German and the Austrian destinations have also proved very
popular with passengers from the Far East and Middle East, who visit the
respective cities for both pleasure and business," said Mr Al Baker.
"We're also seeing a strong trend for more and more Europeans to visit
Qatar. They are now realising that Qatar is an exciting destination in its own
right," he said.
The new frequencies occur at the same time that Qatar Airways begins
taking delivery of a $5.1 billion order for 34 aircraft during the next several
years. In this year alone, the airline will take delivery of 13 new Airbus
aircraft which will swell its exclusively-Airbus fleet to 38 by year-end.
"Receiving thirteen new aircraft this year, a virtually unprecedented delivery
for an airline of our size, means that we can increase frequencies to our
existing destinations and inaugurate new destinations.
"We have already announced the new destinations of Luxor, Istanbul,
Zurich and Kabul for this year, and are looking into developing further new
routes in the near future.
"It is our ambition to be the world's best airline, and to provide the best
possible service to all our passengers. Although we are rapidly expanding
in order to provide more services, we are not losing sight of our vision to
provide a consistently superior service," Mr. Al Baker said. |
