Qatar Airways suspends flights to Nagpur

Doha: Qatar Airways, which has been operating a direct flight between Nagpur and Doha for the last two years, has decided to suspend the flight from May 15 due to poor load factor from the Indian city’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.
Qatar Airways will be the second airline to suspend its international operations from Nagpur after India’s state-run carrier Air India, which suspended its Hyderabad-Nagpur-Bangkok flight an year ago.
Qatar Airways launched its twice-weekly flights to Nagpur in September 2007. Initially, the flight received a tremendous response from passengers as it was the only flight with connections to cities like London, Washington, New York and Paris from Nagpur. However, for the last few months the global economic slowdown and the poor load factor due to rising air fares had badly affected operations of the flight, sources added.
A senior official of the airline said on condition of anonymity, “The flight was being operated with very poor load factor for the last few months. The airline has incurred losses in hundreds of thousands and is planning to withdraw the Nagpur-Doha flights permanently.”
01/05/09 Victor Ikoli/The Peninsula, Qatar

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