Qatar Airways will fly to Nagpur and Ahmedabad by 2008

Washington: Qatar Airways will fly to Nagpur and Ahmedabad in India by the end of 2007, its chief executive confirmed on Friday, which will cap off an extraordinary year when fast-growing Gulf airlines made major inroads into India.
The new daily service to Nagpur, at the geographical centre of India, and Ahmedabad, in the northeastern state of Gujarat, will mark the seventh and eighth Indian destinations for Qatar Airways, according to Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways chief executive.
With the two flights, Qatar will have launched an impressive 11 new routes in 2007 alone. Beginning with Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in January, Qatar Airways followed up with new service to Lagos, Bali, Ho Chi Minh City, Chennai, Geneva, New York, Washington, D.C. and in November, Stockholm. Its current network now totals 78 destinations worldwide.
Qatar is just one of several airlines which have deepened their network into the red hot aviation market on the subcontinent, which Indian authorities have gradually opened up in recent years.
24/07/07 Ivan Gale/Gulf News, United Arab Emirates

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Categories: Foreign Jul 2007