Qatar Airways Group Reports Record $2.15 Billion Profit

And your nemesis RyanAir reports profit falls and is raising fares to compensate blaming Boeing delays!

QR have done well for themselves, I notice they have surprisingly strong economy fares compared to the competition, which shows their "premium" branding is paying off.

I wonder how the VA play will work out for QR. The Australian market is extremely lucrative given how little air service they have altogether.

Aside from that, I don't see any other major shifts in their strategy for 2025. The India market also continues to grow and Air India hasn't fixed anything to be honest. Their seats are still falling apart and their pax are clogging up toilets. Many Indian diaspora in America are quite fed up with them and actually avoid them like the plague.

The U.S. commercial airline operators could do well to take a leaf out of the world class carriers book. They need to stop pretending that they are offering their customers a service which is only a pretend “Premium or First Class”. Sadly the American flying public are being fleeced just as much as Ryanair are doing in Europe. Blaming Boeing is only a small part of Ryanair’s challenges, obviously the customers are sick of being taken for granted.
Well done Qatar, Ryanair got what they deserve.

American carriers don't have unlimited money. Then there's also shareholder interest which is an entirely different animal to deal with. Comparing a heavily subsidized business against a normal American business is apples to oranges.

It would appear that which ever way one looks at it the U.S. aviation industry is being blamed for something …. 🙂

An interesting submission PB, however, even American “Apples (and) oranges” can turn sour when mismanaged and provide rotten fruit, etc …. 🙂

What exactly is your beef with US industry? It's not like Europe is heaven on earth for industry.

“Apples (and) oranges can turn sour” - gee, that is so profound!

But QR has very limited routes and slots into India, and almost all its Indian flights reach the country between 2 and 3 at night. The Indian government has done nothing to add more bilateral rights for QR. The Indian populace is used to flying EK and EY because of their greater frequencies.

I’m not sure QR can do anything more to attract Indians flying to the US and Europe, and I’m not sure there are that many people who will take QR over EK or (if the schedule works) AI, given the limited frequencies that QR has. If you live in ATL, MIA or PHL, of course, QR is the best choice for flying to India, but for other cities I’m doubtful.

Actually, some might consider it to be ‘ripe’ VS …. 🙂

What is the yield comparison across different airlines, particularly I am interested in UA, DL, AA, vs EK vs QR.

VS, please be assured that I have no particular “Beef” with any countries industry (China excepted), perhaps your reaction is more fun than you might be expecting?
There are those who post herein who miss no opportunity to berate Great Britain, BA, other EU airlines, airports, etc, etc. However, as Mr Jones used to say …. “They don’t like it up’em”! Please consider this as payback time, nothing more.

Proxi, are you suggesting that QR deserve even more credit for their performance, as their penetration into the Indian market is so weak?

Speaking personally, as an international traveler, I am more concerned with an airline’s customer satisfaction rating, their routes and schedules, than their yield comparison.
One is looking forward to the 2025 SkyTrax World Rankings announcement next month.

As someone who's looked into head to India next Christmas, the lack of frequency is a real nuisance. QR have one flight to BOM all day which lands and returns in the late night which makes the journey far more annoying. I want to fly in a premium cabin to make the journey more comfortable but having to be up until 4am makes the flight worse than just flying back home on BA!

- Just complete a long haul QR roundtrip in J from DOH. The outbound was a fully reclining seat on A350 and the return was Q-suites also on A350. On the first flight free WiFi was limited to 20 min and it was 1 h (?) on the return. The service was generally OK but with quite a few gaps. I have ordered a cheese plate that never materialized and then they run out. Asked for a glass of wine and waited for 15 min. I can taste detergent in my wine glass. The Qatar Business lounges in DOH are getting crowded with long lines to enter during rush hours. The food options are OK high end cafeteria food.

You can't just say that the QR profits aren't real just because you don't like how low their costs are.

(This comment is not aimed at anyone in particular)

One big reason worth noting for the results, is the growth of the local DOH market.

It's significantly larger than it was a decade ago.

Americans need to flee their comfort zone to understand why the world passes them by. We need to use our heads, instead of listening to politicians and PR machines, to dispel long held misconceptions to understand how foreign countries and companies achieve superior results at lower costs and to disengage in scapegoating and hypocrisy. If the executive compensation packages, which tie to stock earnings, are not obscene, unions will not exist. All three big legacy carriers announced huge
earning profits at least five years prior to Covid. Yet, in less than a month into Covid, their CEOs flew private jets into Capitol Hill to beg for a big bailout. Big businesses have same access to funding via taxpayers because they buy off politicians. Paradoxically, all three branches of government are co-conspirators, particularly Clarence Thomas and Alito, in accepting and perpetuating bribery and corruption.
As for the big three ME carriers, their customer services will descend as they expand further. If you have to deal with Qatar office staff to resolve an issue, the customer
service experience will not propel them in raking first in customer satisfaction survey.

"can turn sour when mismanaged"

Define "mismanaged."

"Mismanaged" companies tend not to be the most profitable in the world for their business type, even relative to their size, for years on end.

Or is it just that you do not understand that their management is meant to provide returns to their shareholders, and not impress internet randos with whatever gimmicks/gizmos/gadgets you arbitrarily feel to be missing?

Dang, how A.D.H.D. can you be in one post?

You branched off into about six different topics, half of which don't relate to the other (and barely any of which are applicable to this specific discussion) in the same paragraph.

@Ben/Lucky,*** These results are for the Qatar Airways 'Group'. These financials are NOT just about bums in seats. This includes ALL of Qatar Airways strategic business units ranging from catering to commercial cargo to A MONOPOLY on all liquor and pork sold into the state of Qatar!

I never had any queue to enter Al-mourjan lounge (the one for Qatar business class passengers).
Seem you used the wrong lounge...

The new DOH lounges are ok, but the catering is indeed a very weak part of QR. Of four legs, we had fruits run out on one leg, ice-cream on the other and congee as one of only two mains on the third leg not even uplifted. We were spared for the fourth leg in terms of catering just cos we were in Economy. Made me wonder if they did not order enough food in premium cabins in the name of cost-cutting, which I have not heard of or experienced on other airlines.

I see you are visualizing a future of QR being more present in India. Again, praising India to the high heavens like a true brainwashed nationalist.