Ticket sales open for Qatar’s Ethiopian route

We announced earlier this month that Qatar was adding three flights a week between Doha, Qatar, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Ticket sales for this route have opened and can be booked via travel agents or online at www.qatarairways.com to take advantage of connections to popular destinations including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Montreal, New York, Chicago and Washington via the airline’s Doha hub.
Flights depart from Doha on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 22h15 and arrive in Addis Ababa at 01h40 the following morning. The return flight leaves Addis Ababa at 02h50 and lands in Doha at 06h15.

The new service will be operated with an Airbus A320 in a two-class configuration of 132 seats in Economy and 12 in Business Class.

Addis Ababa joins a rapidly growing African network that Qatar Airways serves, among 19 other routes in North, East, West and Sub-Saharan Africa.

In the last 24 months the airline has added Benghazi (Libya); Entebbe (Uganda); Kigali (Rwanda); Tripoli (Libya) to its global route network, and re-launched flights to Kilimanjaro (Tanzania); and Maputo (Mozambique).
 

Qatar Airways to start Ethiopia flights

Qatar Airways has announced that it will start a service to Ethiopia in September. The three weekly Doha–Addis Ababa operation will be flown by a 144-seat, two-class Airbus A320 aircraft with 12 seats in business and 132 in economy.

Ethiopia is becoming an increasingly promising trade hub for European and Asian investments. Just last month, Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn extended an invitation to China’s entrepreneurs, encouraging them to invest in the region’s apparel manufacturing sector. "Qatar believes in the long-term potential of the destination, hence the reason for its expansion of its international route network there," Colin Neubronner, regional marketing manager of East Asia and Southwest Pacific for the airline, confirmed.

The Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa will become Qatar’s 20th destination on the African continent, and is part of the carrier’s aggressive expansion plan, which has seen the company order nine B777-300ERs  recently, along with frequency increases to Paris, Pakistan and new services to Basra

Visit www.qatarairways.com for more information.

Clement Huang

Qatar Suspends Seychelles Route

According to breakingnewstravel, Qatar Airways has announced that it will suspend its scheduled flights to and from the Seychelles, effective 1 September, for commercial reasons.
The last of the daily services operating between the airline’s Doha hub and Seychelles International Airport on Mahe Island, will be on 31 August.
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker said the airline had informed the travel trade of the decision and that all efforts were being made to ensure travel agents, tour operators and individual travellers who had made bookings on the affected route, were re-located to other airlines or given a full refund.

Fly540 and Qatar Sign Service Agreement

According to breakingnewstravel, Fly540 Kenya is expanding its flight network with the signing of its first international interline agreement with Qatar Airways.
The agreement will begin with an inbound interline service for passengers arriving in Kenya. Under the terms of the agreement, Qatar Airways’ passengers will be able to connect with a Fly540 Kenya flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and fly to destinations within Fly540 Kenya’s network, using one itinerary.
Passengers will have seamless, through-baggage and hassle-free onward connections to Eldoret, Kisumu, Lamu, Lodwar, Malindi and Mombasa, and also across the border into Juba and Zanzibar. Qatar Airways operates double daily flights between Doha and Nairobi.

Qatar Enhances North African Capacity

According to breakingnewstravel, Qatar Airways has announced an increase in capacity between Qatar and North Africa with its flights to Tripoli, Libya, and Casablanca, Morocco going non-stop.
Scheduled services to the Libyan capital Tripoli will be de-linked from the Egyptian city of Alexandria, offering additional seats to both cities. On the same day Casablanca will have direct non-stop services from the airline’s Doha hub.
Currently the route is served via the Tunisian capital of Tunis. With the de-linking and re-introduction of non-stop flights, Qatar Airways is giving passengers travelling to the four North African cities more choice and flexibility when planning their travels.
 Passengers from the Asia Pacific, South Asia and Middle East can now take advantage of a seamless one-stop connection to Tripoli and Casablanca via Doha.

Qatar to Service Burundi

According to eturbonews, the Burundi government has signed a new air service agreement with Qatar Airways, allowing the two airlines (Qatar Airways and Air Burundi) to fly up to seven times a week between Doha and Bujumbura.
 The agreement covers passenger and cargo services and allows for intermediate stops en route from and to Bujumbura. Burundi is currently the least-connected country in Eastern Africa, with regular air services from Europe only provided by Brussels Airlines, whilst within Africa there are services provided by Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines and RwandAir.
 Burundi is also serviced by Air Uganda within the wider Eastern African region and by South African Airways from within Southern Africa.

Dreamliner Delivery for Qatar

 Qatar Airways has become the first Middle Eastern airline to take delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Space, comfort and luxury are key features of the aircraft, with Qatar Airways working closely with the manufacturer to have custom-made seats fitted.
The aircraft is also the world’s first 787 to be fully connected with wireless facilities, enabling all passengers in both Business and Economy cabins to remain connected with the ground through Wi-Fi and GSM telephony options, allowing for the sending of both text and MMS messages.
Personal power ports are available in every seat, equipped with USB, MP3 and other charger ports, including laptop power outlets. The fully interactive inflight entertainment system offers more than 1,000 video and audio options to every passenger. The Dreamliner is the first mid-size airplane capable of flying long-range routes. Qatar Airways’ customers will experience improved lighting, bigger windows, larger overhead bins, lower cabin altitude and enhanced ventilation systems, among other features.
The new 787s feature a total of 254 seats in a two-class configuration of 22 in Business Class and 232 in Economy. With a 1–2–1 configuration in Business Class, the layout features two less seats than competitors on conventional wide body aircraft.
There’s also a 22-inch wide armchair that converts at a touch of a button into different cradle positions, before reaching an 80-inch long, 30-inch wide flat-bed offering great legroom. The 787 is quieter than other aircraft, with the largest windows in the industry and first-of-its-kind electronic touch pad controls to adjust the amount of light entering the cabin. Dynamic mood lighting throughout the aircraft helps passengers adjust their body clocks according to the change in time zones, as lighting is automatically altered during the flight.