Qatar Airways drew major attention on the opening day of ITB Berlin 2023, the world’s largest international travel and tourism trade show, as the airline’s Group Chief Executive, HE Akbar Al Baker, unveiled new destinations and announced flight resumptions and frequency increases during a press conference on the first day of the exhibition.
Highlighting the success of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™, Qatar Airways revealed its new sports sponsorship portfolio as well as a multitude of other projects and partnerships lined up for the year 2023, continuing on the path of bringing people together while boosting the tourism industry in the State of Qatar.
The press conference was also attended by HE Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Thani, Ambassador for the State of Qatar to Germany.
HE Al Baker announced that seven new destinations will be launched in 2023:
Chittagong (Bangladesh) ▪ Juba (South Sudan) ▪ Kinshasa (Congo) ▪ Lyon (France) ▪ Medan (Indonesia) ▪ Toulouse (France) ▪ Trabzon (Turkey)
Qatar Airways is also resuming flights to 11 destinations including
Beijing (China) ▪ Birmingham (UK) ▪ Buenos Aires (Argentina) ▪ Casablanca (Morocco) ▪ Davao (Philippines) ▪ Marrakesh (Morocco) ▪ Nice (France) ▪ Osaka (Japan) ▪ Phnom Penh (Cambodia) ▪ Ras Al-Khaimah (UAE) ▪ Tokyo Haneda (Japan)
The following destinations, meanwhile, are slated to receive an increase in flight frequency:
- Abuja – Port Harcourt – from two weekly flights to three
- Abuja – Kano – from three weekly flights to four
- Athens – from seven weekly flights to 14
- Belgrade – from five weekly flights to seven
- Berlin – from 11 weekly flights to 14
- Bucharest – from 10 weekly flights to 14
- Cairo – from 21 weekly flights to 28
- Copenhagen – from four weekly flights to seven, and 10 from winter season 2023/24 (Finnair also operates seven weekly flights, totalling 17 weekly in Copenhagen)
- Denpasar – from 14 weekly flights to 21
- Dublin – from 12 weekly flights to 14
- Düsseldorf – from seven weekly flights to 11 for winter season 2023/24
- Edinburgh– from 10 weekly flights to 14
- Hanoi – from 10 weekly flights to 12
- Hong Kong – from 11 weekly flights to 14
- Khartoum – from seven weekly flights to 14
- Larnaca – from seven weekly flights to 14
- London Gatwick – from seven weekly flights to 10 (14 weekly flights for peak summer season)
- London Heathrow – from 42 weekly flights to 45
- Madrid – from 16 weekly flights to 18
- Manila – from 17 weekly flights to 18
- Milan – from 16 weekly flights to 21
- Mogadishu – from three weekly flights to four
- Nagpur – from four weekly flights to seven
- Oslo – from seven weekly flights to 12 for winter season 2023/24
- Phuket – from 14 weekly flights to 21 for winter season 2023/24
- Saigon – from 10 weekly flights to 12
- Sarajevo – from three weekly flights to four for the summer season of 2023
- Sofia – from three weekly flights to four weekly flights in summer and five weekly flights in winter 2023/24
- Stockholm – from three weekly flights to five for winter season 2023/24 (Finnair also operates seven weekly flights, totalling 12 weekly in Stockholm)
- Taif – from three weekly flights to seven
- Vienna – from 10 weekly flights to 14
- Warsaw – from seven weekly flights to 14 from winter season 2023/24
- Yerevan – from seven weekly flights to 10
- Zagreb – from four weekly flights to seven
- Zurich – from 10 weekly flights to 14
HE Al Baker said they continue to look forward to their bright future in Qatar, with multiple projects lined up for 2023 and beyond, such as the Formula 1 partnership and much more. Qatar will continue to be a global hub of connectivity and an ideal destination for tourism, long after the great success of the historic FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.
The world-leading ITB Berlin showcases a range of travel exhibitors from over 180 countries and five continents, providing over 160,000 visitors with information on new products, services and facilities in the tourism industry.
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