New Destinations 2018-2019
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New Destinations 2018-2019
From florens:
The launch of GIG and SCL is postponed indefinitely.
Aviação - Voo da Qatar para o Rio é adiado e ainda não tem data - Notícia - Turismo
Google translator: Despite information about the start of Qatar Airways' Santiago-Rio-Doha flight to early 2018, the company informs that the operation is delayed due to the availability of aircraft, with no scheduled start date. The company intends to use the A350 in the connection, in partnership with Latam Airlines, but it still does not have the plane available.
Qatar Airways says however that the flight is confirmed and a date will be announced as soon as the aircraft issue is resolved. The company from Qatar flies daily from Sao Paulo to Doha, with extension to Buenos Aires.
Aviação - Voo da Qatar para o Rio é adiado e ainda não tem data - Notícia - Turismo
Google translator: Despite information about the start of Qatar Airways' Santiago-Rio-Doha flight to early 2018, the company informs that the operation is delayed due to the availability of aircraft, with no scheduled start date. The company intends to use the A350 in the connection, in partnership with Latam Airlines, but it still does not have the plane available.
Qatar Airways says however that the flight is confirmed and a date will be announced as soon as the aircraft issue is resolved. The company from Qatar flies daily from Sao Paulo to Doha, with extension to Buenos Aires.
Last edited by msm2000uk; Jan 11, 18 at 3:26 am
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The following should be loaded over the next week or so:
HTY 3x/week A320 eff 04APR18
JMK 4x/week A320 eff 28MAY18
AGP 4x/week B788 eff 04JUN18
BJV 2x/week A320 eff 12JUN18
AYT 2x/week A320 eff 13JUN18
LIS 4x/week B788 eff 01SEP18
Turkish beach destinations haven't been previously announced... getting near the bottom of the barrel me thinks.
HTY 3x/week A320 eff 04APR18
JMK 4x/week A320 eff 28MAY18
AGP 4x/week B788 eff 04JUN18
BJV 2x/week A320 eff 12JUN18
AYT 2x/week A320 eff 13JUN18
LIS 4x/week B788 eff 01SEP18
Turkish beach destinations haven't been previously announced... getting near the bottom of the barrel me thinks.
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No money to be made from A320s sitting on the ground in Doha. Antalya is one of Turkey's major cities, with the population size in the metropolitan area comparable to the whole of Qatar.
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HTY is Iskenderun, Turkey's very own Alexandria
BJV is Bodrum
AYT is of course Antalya - it's a major airport with something like 25 million passengers a year (OK, lot's of them carried on charter flights)
JMK is Mykonos, an odd choice. Perhaps al Baker has a holiday home there ....

It's about time Lisbon was on the network.
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Still makes more sense than Cardiff. I could see a couple Qatari flying to Antalya as a short get-away and plenty of Turks travelling to all parts of the world on QR. I'm not sure if it's going to attract huge numbers of connecting passengers from other parts of the world.
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Still makes more sense than Cardiff. I could see a couple Qatari flying to Antalya as a short get-away and plenty of Turks travelling to all parts of the world on QR. I'm not sure if it's going to attract huge numbers of connecting passengers from other parts of the world.
But it's silly of us to second-guess these things. Qatar may be desperate to find short-haul destinations to deploy it's aircraft, but I'm sure its network planners have access to MIDT-type data. This may have identified a rich stream of demand we are unaware of. There again they might be throwing darts at a map

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I'mm a great fan of spelling out destinations with obscure IATA codes
HTY is Iskenderun, Turkey's very own Alexandria
BJV is Bodrum
AYT is of course Antalya - it's a major airport with something like 25 million passengers a year (OK, lot's of them carried on charter flights)
JMK is Mykonos, an odd choice. Perhaps al Baker has a holiday home there .... :eek
HTY is Iskenderun, Turkey's very own Alexandria
BJV is Bodrum
AYT is of course Antalya - it's a major airport with something like 25 million passengers a year (OK, lot's of them carried on charter flights)
JMK is Mykonos, an odd choice. Perhaps al Baker has a holiday home there .... :eek
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The following should be loaded over the next week or so:
HTY 3x/week A320 eff 04APR18
JMK 4x/week A320 eff 28MAY18
AGP 4x/week B788 eff 04JUN18
BJV 2x/week A320 eff 12JUN18
AYT 2x/week A320 eff 13JUN18
LIS 4x/week B788 eff 01SEP18
Turkish beach destinations haven't been previously announced... getting near the bottom of the barrel me thinks.
HTY 3x/week A320 eff 04APR18
JMK 4x/week A320 eff 28MAY18
AGP 4x/week B788 eff 04JUN18
BJV 2x/week A320 eff 12JUN18
AYT 2x/week A320 eff 13JUN18
LIS 4x/week B788 eff 01SEP18
Turkish beach destinations haven't been previously announced... getting near the bottom of the barrel me thinks.
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Mykonos is also becoming very popular with the Chinese and Far East Asian locals, so it's a sensible addition in my view.
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Definitely. I go to Mykonos 2-3 times every summer, and on the Athens-Mykonos domestic flight on Aegean I see dozens of pax connecting from the Doha flights. I predict these flights will be sold out.