Qatar Airlines coming to...Boston?
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Qatar Airlines coming to...Boston?
"After Chicago, we are going to start operating three more destinations," Al Baker said. "This will be Atlanta, Detroit and Boston."
Wow!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayi...s-ceo/1655711/
Wow!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayi...s-ceo/1655711/
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QR - has the right plane (787) to compete with and future OW loyalty.
EK - has the partnership with B6 and the most destinations especially secondary Indian Subcontinent.
TK - has *A loyalty and has the most O&D (~ 30,000 passengers in 2011 ~ 40 PDEW) which would be stimulated by a BOS-IST flight and is better for middle east traffic flows.
There is 15 transatlantic flights a day that one of these carriers would have to compete with but all three have the ability to work (either codeshare or just interline) with B6 too which would help.
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I had heard of Turkish and Qatar considering BOS, but not EK. I think any of the three would pick up a lot of business especially for onward connections to the region. With Healthcare, IT, Business, Education and other areas of work, I think any of them would do well.
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"Considering"?? I thought Qatar WILL fly to BOS starting sometime next year.
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If you are referring to your original post, treating al Baker's statements of intention as fact is not a good idea.
He decline[d] to give a precise timetable
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A good link to see growth of BOS-Indian Subcontinent traffic from 2003-2011 is here: http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/aviation
Al Baker did say "will" but I'm wondering if "will" becoming "scheduled" depends on two things: 787 deliveries and the opening of New Doha International Airport.
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He also said
"It will be soon, because we have plans 15 to 16 destinations in our network next year".