After showing tremendous strength and resilience in face of COVID-19 pandemic, Qatar Airways is now fast resuming its flight schedules to different parts of the world. Qatar Airways’ leading role in aviation industry during coronavirus crisis has won international appreciation.
During this global health crisis, Qatar Airways continued to operate a significant schedule operating over 15,000 flights to take over 1.8 million people home. Qatar Airways cargo division also prioritised medical and aid shipments working closely with governments and NGOs to transport over 200,000 tonnes of essential supplies to impacted regions.
During this unprecedented crisis, Qatar Airways also continued to work closely with the US government and airports to take over 160,000 stranded people home from Australasia, Africa, India and the Middle East.
The national carrier of the State of Qatar has now reaffirmed its further commitment to the US with the resumption of flights to New York (JFK) from yesterday (rising to 10 weekly from July 2) and to Boston, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles from July 1.
This will see the airline’s US network rebuild to 39 weekly flights by mid-July 2020. With strong existing partnerships with American Airlines and JetBlue in place, the restarting of these flights brings even greater benefits to Qatar Airways passengers. Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, H E Akbar Al Baker, said: “Since the pandemic outbreak, at Qatar Airways we have been completely focused at fulfilling our mission to bring people home. We worked closely with governments around the world to ensure their stranded citizens could travel home safely and our repatriation efforts were widely recognised and applauded.”
Recently, Qatar Airways reinstated flights to Tanzania’s capital announcing the airline will operate three times weekly to Dar es Salaam. On June 12 Qatar Airways had resumed flights to Istanbul, the biggest city of Turkey.
By the end of June, the airline aims to have 80 destinations in the schedule including 23 in Europe, four in the Americas, 20 in Middle East/Africa and 33 in Asia-Pacific. The new independent data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), released this month, reaffirmed Qatar Airways as the airline that worked diligently to take people home safely and reliably during coronavirus crisis.
Qatar Airways’ over 1.3 billion revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) during the month of April accounted for 17.8 percent of the global market, over triple its nearest competitor and more than the next four airlines combined.
