Qatar Airways may buy a 25% stake in a start-up Airline in United States after being offered stiff resistance to buy up to 10 percent shares of listed American Airlines last year. Qatar Airways change…
A350-1000 makes the formation photo-shoot flight with A350-900
Qatar airline’s first A350-1000, registration A7-ANA (msn 88), recently operated a formation flight from Airbus’s Toulouse plant in the company of its latest A350-900 (A7-ALY). Qatar Airways has…
Photo update: Qatar Airways A321 cabin fire
Photo Update; Qatar Airways A321 cabin was on fire whilst under maintenance at Hamad International Airport (HIA) on Friday 8 December 2017. The fire started around 06:50am while the aircraft was posit…
Fire inside an Airbus 321 at HIA contained in time.
A Qatar Airways Airbus A321 aircraft positioned at a remote stand experienced a fire whilst under maintenance at Hamad International Airport (HIA) at 6.50am on Friday. Qatar Airways reported through a…
Qatar Airways analysing engine options for the latest A321 order.
Apart from reconfiguration of the Airbus A321 neos’ cabin, Qatar Airways proposes a change in the engine provision as well. It is in continuous talk with CFM International about this provision. Qatar …
Qatar Airways agrees to buy 50 Airbus A321 planes
Qatar Airways today placed an order for 50 Airbus 321 planes during a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron. The contract includes an option to buy another 30 planes. Qatar Airways already o…
Qatar Airways makes strategic moves to become a mega-carrier
The CEO of Qatar Airways wants shareholdings to be exchanged between itself and its portfolio airlines as it seeks to become a virtual mega-carrier though strategic expansion moves. He also explained …
Qatar Airways CEO wanted Trump do more to stop the economic blockade on Qatar.
“President Trump is trying to do more, but I think he needs to do even more because he has given an undertaking to my ruler that he will solve the problem and he will solve it soon,” Qatar…
Qatar Airways flight diverted after passenger discovers husband’s affair.
An Iranian woman, was travelling from Doha to Bali, Indonesia with her husband and child on a Qatar Airways flight on Sunday. While her husband was asleep, she used his hand to unlock his fingerprint-…
Qatar agrees to take four previously-cancelled Airbus A350-900s
Qatar Airways had ordered 43 A350-900s, but withdrew four of them in June, leaving the total order to 39. But now Qatar Airways has agreed to pick up the four finished Airbus A350-900s, four months af…