Kolkata: With no direct flights to Europe from Kolkata, Qatar Airways has seized the opportunity and deployed a bigger aircraft to fly passengers to Doha and onward to Europe and the US.
From Wednesday, the airline replaced the Airbus A320 aircraft on the sector with the Boeing B787 Dreamliner, nearly doubling the capacity from 144 seats to 254 seats. Apart from Kolkata, Delhi is the only other market that Qatar services with a Dreamliner. The airline operates a larger B777 aircraft to Mumbai and Bengaluru. Amritsar, Kochi, Trivandrum, Kozhikode and Goa are serviced by A320. Chennai is the only city that has an A340. The airline flies to 13 cities in India.
Qatar Airways vice-president Ihab Sorial said the deployment of the state-of-the-art Dreamliner to Kolkata was reflective of the market's potential. Though the airline has been operating to the cities in Kerala and Hyderabad for over a decade and a half unlike Kolkata where services started only in 2011, these cities are still serviced by the narrow-body A320 aircraft.
03/12/15 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
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From Wednesday, the airline replaced the Airbus A320 aircraft on the sector with the Boeing B787 Dreamliner, nearly doubling the capacity from 144 seats to 254 seats. Apart from Kolkata, Delhi is the only other market that Qatar services with a Dreamliner. The airline operates a larger B777 aircraft to Mumbai and Bengaluru. Amritsar, Kochi, Trivandrum, Kozhikode and Goa are serviced by A320. Chennai is the only city that has an A340. The airline flies to 13 cities in India.
Qatar Airways vice-president Ihab Sorial said the deployment of the state-of-the-art Dreamliner to Kolkata was reflective of the market's potential. Though the airline has been operating to the cities in Kerala and Hyderabad for over a decade and a half unlike Kolkata where services started only in 2011, these cities are still serviced by the narrow-body A320 aircraft.
03/12/15 Subhro Niyogi/Times of India
