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Qatar Airways Delays Their Las Vegas Launch... Again

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In June 2016, Qatar Airways first announced their plan to begin flying between Doha and Las Vegas, which caught a lot of people (including me) off guard. At the time, Akbar Al Baker, Qatar Airways’ CEO, announced that the airline would offer daily Boeing 777-300ER service between the two cities as of January 2017. We…

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Diamond
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Do you mean June 1, 2018? You wrote june 1, 2017


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(@GolfPapa)
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QR738 LAS1555 – 0720+1DOH 77L x246
0720+1 arrival at DOH doesn't make sense.

Compare LAX-DOH:
QR740 LAX1555 - 1740+1DOH


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(@kyler-rosen)
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Wait... Isn't it 2018?


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@ Jason @ Kyler -- Typo on my part, sorry. Thanks for the correction.


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@ GolfPapa -- I assume it's a typo and they mean 7:20PM and not 7:20AM. It makes sense that Las Vegas would be 20 minutes shorter than Los Angeles.


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(@Danny)
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I hope they do it. I am looking forward to an empty cabin. Two seats per business class passenger on the 777-200LR. Yes!


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(@donna)
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Wouldn't the existing electronics ban affect these flights? If so, perhaps management doesn't want to launch these routes because they might fail.


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Gold
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What's the difference in capacity between the 77L and their A350/787? Maybe they are waiting for more of the new planes, for lower capacity/higher fuel efficiency.


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Diamond
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Which are the planes with the great business class, and which are blessed great ?

Thanks for th update!


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(@Harish)
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I think QR makes these random announcements to see if anyone else takes the bait! But in all honesty, QR already flies to some US destinations that no other middle eastern carrier operates to, direct - Atlanta and Philadelphia being 2 examples.

So who knows!?

PS - 777-200, really? Eww.


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 Jake
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Foreign visitors to the USA are down 16% thanks to Trump -- it would make no sense for Qatar to launch a new service to a leisure destination given the slump. Add the laptop ban that keeps business customers away, and you have a perfect storm. If you want to blame someone, look to Washington.

Incidentally, British Airways just reduced summer capacity to San Francisco and San Diego, summer tourist destinations, again due to the Trump slump.


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(@RANDEEP SINGH)
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QATAR WILL FLY TO LAS VEGAS IN 2018 . YOU COULD BUY TICKETS ON THEIR WEB SITE ALSO . THEY WOULD NOT SELLING TICKETS FROM LAS VEGAS TO DOHA DIRECT FLIGHT AND BEYOND . THIS FLIGHT WILL BE VERY GOOD FOR LAS VEGAS BECAUSE OF VERY LIMITED INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT COME TO LAS VEGAS . THIS FLIGHT WILL BE BOOKED SOLID YEAR AROUND BECAUSE EMIRATES , ETIHAD DOES NOT FLY TO LAS VEGAS .


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(@JASMEET SINGH)
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QATAR AIRWAYS IS REQUESTED TO KINDLY START FLYING TO LAS VEGAS DIRECT FROM DOHA . LAS VEGAS HAS BEEN WAITING FOR QATAR AIRWAYS FOR VERY LONG TIME . KLM STARTED FLYING TO LAS VEGAS DIRECT FROM AMSTERDAM IS ALWAYS FULL . ALL INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS ARE FULL CAPACITY EVERY DAY .


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(@RANDEEP SINGH)
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QATAR AIRWAYS IS REQUESTED TO KINDLY START FLYING TO LAS VEGAS , NEVADA EVERY DAY BECAUSE OVER 10000 PEOPLE FLY DAILY TO VARIOUS AIRPORTS ALL OVER USA TO TAKE INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS ALL OVER WORLD . LAS VEGAS , NEVADA IS A TOURIST PLACE , PEOPLE COME TO LAS VEGAS , NEVADA FROM ALL OVER WORLD .


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