www.allafrica.com Qatar Airways will next week start flying to Tanzania to boost its East African network.
The four-times-a week flight from Doha, which starts on January 9, will see Qatar Airways spreading its wings by adding its second route in the region after that to Kenya.
The airline's chief executive officer Akbar Al Baker told The East-African from Doha, Qatar, that the Dar es Salaam route joins the airline's rapidly growing international network.
Mr Al Baker said the route will be operated with an Airbus A319 aircraft in a two-class configuration of eight seats in business class and 102 seats in economy.
"With the addition of Dar es Salaam, Qatar Airways' global reach will extend to 71 destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Far East," he said adding that the Dar es Salaam route is expected to be popular with tourists from around the world.
Qatar Airways has a five-star ranking for service excellence awarded by Skytrax, the independent aviation industry monitoring agency.
The airline operates a modern fleet of 49 all-Airbus aircraft, which will more than double in size to 110 jets by 2015. Qatar Airways is one of the launch customers of the twin-deck Airbus A380 "super jumbos."
With four aircraft on order and scheduled for delivery from 2009 to coincide with the opening of the New Doha International Airport, a state-of-the-art facility being built on reclaimed land, corporate communications manager Salam Al Shawa said the airline will be offering passengers from key markets across Europe, Middle East and Asia convenient connections through Doha to and from Dar es Salaam. |