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Old Mar 2, 2023, 12:28 pm
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QR to announce network expansion on March 7th
Network expansion news to be announced during ITB Berlin on March 7th.

https://www.qatarairways.com/en/pres...ress-releases#

Some recent observations:

- Tokyo (HND): daily A359 restarts from June onwards complementing the existing daily to NRT.
- DPS: 3rd daily added from July
- Beijing (PKX): daily 77W restarts Mar 26
- Guangzhou: 4x weekly moving to daily from Mar 26
- Shanghai: 4x weekly moving to daily from mid June
- Hangzhou: 2x weekly moving to 4x weekly from May
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Old Mar 2, 2023, 6:18 pm
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Originally Posted by nomadabroad
Network expansion news to be announced during ITB Berlin on March 7th.

https://www.qatarairways.com/en/pres...ress-releases#

Some recent observations:

- Tokyo (HND): daily A359 restarts from June onwards complementing the existing daily to NRT.
- DPS: 3rd daily added from July
- Beijing (PKX): daily 77W restarts Mar 26
- Guangzhou: 4x weekly moving to daily from Mar 26
- Shanghai: 4x weekly moving to daily from mid June
- Hangzhou: 2x weekly moving to 4x weekly from May
If talking about increase frequency, the following destinations also apply:
- London (LGW): 1 daily moving to 2 daily from Jun 19
- London (LHR): 42 weekly moving to 45 weekly from Mar 28
- Hong Kong: 10 weekly moving to 2 daily from Apr 2
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Old Mar 2, 2023, 7:18 pm
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Originally Posted by arxxxx
If talking about increase frequency, the following destinations also apply:
- London (LGW): 1 daily moving to 2 daily from Jun 19
- London (LHR): 42 weekly moving to 45 weekly from Mar 28
- Hong Kong: 10 weekly moving to 2 daily from Apr 2
Hong Kong is currently 11 weekly and I don't see that changing to 2 daily in April (EF).
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Old Mar 3, 2023, 3:21 am
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Originally Posted by brunos
Hong Kong is currently 11 weekly and I don't see that changing to 2 daily in April (EF).
QR's website confirms the 2x daily service to HKG. The 2nd service is launching on the 31st of March.



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Old Mar 3, 2023, 5:00 am
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Brace yourself for more schedule changes / airplane swaps with this so called announcement lol.

I can already see some LHR evening flights changing from 77W to 789 on some dates which is a welcome addition however bit strange as the eve flights from LHR has always been 99% 77W QSuites historically.

Also on the rumour mill a new destination in S.America (potentially EZE non-stop)
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Old Mar 3, 2023, 6:54 am
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Originally Posted by nomadabroad
Brace yourself for more schedule changes / airplane swaps with this so called announcement lol.

I can already see some LHR evening flights changing from 77W to 789 on some dates which is a welcome addition however bit strange as the eve flights from LHR has always been 99% 77W QSuites historically.
Yes, I saw the 787-9s popping up on one of the flights to LHR too which I think is strange. I wondered if it was basically a similar-sized placeholder until the Qsuites A350s were back in the air. If they actually do intend to fly them to LHR that's very weird since they have a lot fewer J seats and J to LHR is almost always completely full these days even with 42 J seats.
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Old Mar 3, 2023, 7:25 am
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Originally Posted by qraec777
QR's website confirms the 2x daily service to HKG. The 2nd service is launching on the 31st of March.
Weird that you can buy First class on QR's website for QR815 but it's operated by a 787-8.

Originally Posted by nomadabroad
Brace yourself for more schedule changes / airplane swaps with this so called announcement lol.

I can already see some LHR evening flights changing from 77W to 789 on some dates which is a welcome addition however bit strange as the eve flights from LHR has always been 99% 77W QSuites historically.

Also on the rumour mill a new destination in S.America (potentially EZE non-stop)
EZE non-stop would be great!
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Old Mar 3, 2023, 7:28 am
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Originally Posted by qraec777
QR's website confirms the 2x daily service to HKG. The 2nd service is launching on the 31st of March.



Indeed, EF has just been updated.
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Old Mar 3, 2023, 10:05 am
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Originally Posted by brunos
Indeed, EF has just been updated.
QR816/815 has been restored in 4 weekly since 16 JAN 2023 using 787-8
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What are thoughts that YYZ would be added? Is it a far fetched idea?
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 6:29 pm
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Originally Posted by arxxxx
QR816/815 has been restored in 4 weekly since 16 JAN 2023 using 787-8
Indeed, but we are talking after 1 April.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 6:36 pm
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What are thoughts that YYZ would be added? Is it a far fetched idea?
They would in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for the typical Canadian Gov’t protectionism in favour of AC, I believe they’ve maxed out their current allowed weekly flight rights.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 8:42 pm
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What are thoughts that YYZ would be added? Is it a far fetched idea?
Would be nice if YVR would be added.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 9:59 pm
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Good to see Qatar resuming a late night service out of Tokyo Haneda (HND) to Doha, enabling a short connection on to LHR arriving early afternoon the same day. And on an A350-900 with Q Suites rather than the old non-Q biz class B777s which they persist on flying out of NRT.
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Old Mar 4, 2023, 10:12 pm
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Originally Posted by nomadabroad
Brace yourself for more schedule changes / airplane swaps with this so called announcement lol.
They have already started! Some small changes and others bigger. I've just had a 12 hour change in flight from Phuket in August this year.

As opposed to brand new destinations, does anything think a lot of the new routes will just be the ones that were dropped during Covid being reinstated?
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