Qatar Airways has taken a completely different strategy than most international airlines during the pandemic. The airline has continued flying in markets where other airlines decided to suspend flights, with the hope of that being a competitive advantage as demand starts to recover. Either that strategy is paying off in the United States, or Qatar…
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What's interesting is who is all this capacity for?
Pre pandemic ME3 has a lot of traffic connecting Asia to USA.
As far as I see this summer, most of Asia is still closed for business.
Maybe they will undercut the price enough to get people to fly to EU the long way.
Or cargo business is really booming.
How's the award availability in J? Also, I know QR laid off a good number of cabin crew. I'm curious whether QR is rehiring them or hiring a new batch.
Zimbabwe has just gone into another lockdown due to sharply rising Covid cases and is on the no-travel list of quite a few countries. All this grab for market share may backfire at dome point
As far as I know, Qatar is still blocking middle seats in Economy Class on their planes, so their A350's are actually operating at a 2-2-2 configuration (except for families who can sit together). That is why, despite many destinations still being closed around the world, there are more flights to the U.S.
The connecting non-US flights at DOH are still an issue. Pre-pandemic QSuites haven’t been restored on some routes, even at the end of their available schedule and they still insist on the downgraded service for business class fares close to those before March 2020, with unreasonable increases in fares to get lounge access and seat assignments. Absent further AA status extensions that could give both US and foreign lounge access at all airports, it’s too iffy a prospect. That, plus the possibility of internal body cavity searches in DOH for women, led me to book a discounted first class ticket on another carrier to JNB from the US for not much more than the loungeless, seat assignmentless fare on QR. I’d bought several of QR’s discounted business class seats for personal travel in the past. Still too much uncertainty regarding service to convince me to try it again.
Everywhere but Detroit even though, it has largest Arab population in US and large Indian subcontinent population to support such flights.
Lot of students stuck in the subcontinent affected due to the travel ban. They’re allowed into US starting July 1 and QR has perfectly timed connections into these cities.
Ole makes a good point about DTW; it would seem to be a logical destination. However, it's also a big DL hub so the lack of OneWorld customers may have played into the decision not to serve that market.
I don't think that's the case. My friend just flew back to on Qatar economy last week, and seems like he was telling me they are not blocking middle seats anymore
Ben any guess when you think some of the expanded schedule will be loaded so you can redeem AA miles? QR also added a Doha-Lusaka Zambia flight 3x weekly and American can't see that flight yet even though it's bookable on QR's website.
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