At ITB Berlin, the world’s most important tourism fair, which is taking place this week in the German capital, Qatar Airways confirmed the addition of seven new cities to its network.
The Doha-based airline had already anticipated days ago that it would announce a major expansion during the event, and different hypotheses had been woven as to what the new destinations might be, and whether this would include resuming flights to cities abandoned in the pandemic, such as Buenos Aires.
But the mystery finally came to an end, and Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, revealed that the new destinations are Trabzon (Turkey) from June 16; Lyon (France) from July 3; Toulouse (France), date to be confirmed; Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), date to be confirmed; Juba (South Sudan), date to be confirmed; Medan (Indonesia), from January 15, 2024; and Chittagong (Bangladesh), from March 11, 2024.
Resumption of destinations
Qatar Airways also confirmed that they will return to eleven cities that they had abandoned after the outbreak of the pandemic: Buenos Aires (from December 8), Beijing (March 26), Birmingham (from July 10), Casablanca (date to be confirmed), Davao (April 1), Nice (from May 9), Marrakesh (date to be confirmed), Osaka (March 1, 2024), Phnom Penh (October 29), Ras Al Khaimah (November 1) and Tokyo Haneda (June 1).
«The reason we have been very conservative in the dates we have set depend on the delivery of new aircraft by Airbus and Boeing,» Akbar Al Baker said following the announcement.
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