Report: Qatar Airways Only Wants Air India Without the Baggage

The exterior of the Airbus A350 XWB is pictured during the first delivery of this new passenger jet to Qatar Airways in Toulouse, southwestern France, December 22, 2014. European planemaker Airbus delivered its first A350 mid-sized jetliner to Qatar Airways on Monday and moved to end speculation about the future of its larger A380 superjumbo. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)

Speaking in regards to the possibility of Qatar Airways’ acquisition of Air India, CEO Akbar Al Baker was frank about the conditions under which Qatar might go ahead with such a deal.

“We would be interested in Air India if we had a strong partner. We need to have a very strong partner and we take the airline without the baggage … Look, it is not the debt that’s the baggage — it is the other functions that Air India carries out such as ground handling, engineering and things like that are. We would be interested only in the airline,” he said.

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