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Qatar Airways to join oneworld airline alliance
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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| oneworld is considered the World's Leading Airline Alliance by the World Travel Awards |
Qatar Airways is to join oneworld in a major coup for the award winning airline alliance.
The decision adds one of the world’s fastest growing and most highly
rated airlines to the world’s leading quality airline alliance.
Its election as a oneworld member designate was announced today at a press conference in New York
- home of oneworld’s central alliance management office - with senior
executives of Qatar Airways and the alliance’s established member
airlines in attendance.
Qatar Airways, named the World’s Leading Airline Business Class by the prestigious World Travel Awards, is the first of the three major airlines based in the Gulf to sign for any of the global airline alliances.
It is also the second largest full service airline in the world not,
until today, aligned to one of big global airline alliances.
The Doha-based airline’s implementation into oneworld is expected to take between 12 and 18 months.
The carrier is set to move into a brand new home in 2013 with the
opening of the New Doha International Airport, designed to strengthen
its position as a premium global hub with an eventual capacity for 50
million passengers a year.
As a member of oneworld, Qatar Airways will fly alongside some of the biggest and best brands in the airline business.
Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker celebrates in New York
Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker said: “Alliances are
playing an increasingly important role in the airline industry today -
and that will continue long into the future.
“Qatar Airways has carefully reviewed its strategic options and it is
very clear that joining oneworld is by far the best way forward for us
as we look to strengthen our competitive offering and give passengers
what they fully deserve - more choice.
“Like Qatar Airways, oneworld is focused on quality and providing the
best connections between the places most important to today’s frequent
international travellers.”
British Airways will serve as its sponsor in joining oneworld,
supported by the central oneworld alliance team, mentoring the recruit
through its alliance implementation programme.
Qatar Airways will be oneworld’s second member airline based in the
Middle East, alongside Royal Jordanian, which became the first airline
from the region to join any of the global alliances when it boarded
oneworld in 2007.
Qatar Airways’ network serves 120 destinations in 70 countries in the
Middle East, Europe, Africa, North and South America, Asia and
Australasia, including oneworld hubs Amman, Berlin Tegel, Buenos Aires
Ezeiza, Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Madrid, Melbourne, Moscow
Domodedovo, New York JFK, Osaka Kansai, Sydney, Tokyo Narita, and the
Kuala Lumpur home of oneworld member elect Malaysia Airlines.
International Airlines Group chief executive Willie Walsh, left, congratulates Qatar Airways chief Al Baker at the ceremony earlier
Fifteen of its destinations and three countries - Iran, Rwanda and the Seychelles - will be new to the oneworld map.
More significantly, Qatar Airways will substantially strengthen
oneworld’s customer offering by providing superior routing alternatives
across many hundreds of city pairs.
For example, passengers flying between Asia and Southern Europe or
between Asia and Africa will now have convenient one-stop connections
not previously available within the oneworld network.
Qatar Airways operates one of the world’s youngest and most modern
fleets, currently standing at 111 Boeing and Airbus aircraft with an
average age of just four years old.
Its addition will increase oneworld’s global coverage to 856
destinations in 159 countries, served by a combined fleet of 2,600
aircraft operating more than 9,300 flights and carrying almost a million
passengers every day (342 million a year), generating annual revenues
of nearly US$ 120 billion.
Qatar Airways already code-shares with oneworld member designate
Malaysia Airlines. It will develop bilateral links with more airlines
in the alliance as it moves towards becoming a member of the group.
oneworld is viewed as the World’s Leading Airline Alliance by the World Travel Awards.
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