OA412 From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 4978 posts, RR: 25 Reply 2, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 5950 times:
So, is it just me, or do a lot of these route announcments from Middle East carriers appear to be "monkey see, monkey do"?
smi0006 From Australia, joined Jan 2008, 1380 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 5818 times:
Quoting QatarA340 (Reply 1): Thirdly, did you notice Sydney disappeared magically from the list of upcoming destinations
I think the CEO stated awhile ago maybe December or January after MEL started up that SYD had been put on hold for a while, they were even quoted as saying they were investigating PER over SYD. With the lack of compition out of PER I think we might just see this happen!
lightsaber From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 10647 posts, RR: 100 Reply 4, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 5744 times:
Quoting QatarA340 (Reply 1): First of all, Happy A.net Birthday Ojas!
Yes, happby B-day.
Quoting smi0006 (Reply 3): With the lack of compition out of PER I think we might just see this happen!
Directorguy From Egypt, joined Jul 2008, 1569 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 5507 times:
Happy B-day Ojas!
I have to say, would be very interesting to see EZE work...and whether that market will develop enough to become a nonstop.
Interesting to see how EK will respond, and whether it will be a repeat of IAH. Perhaps EK will introduce DXB-GIG-EZE soon...
smi0006 From Australia, joined Jan 2008, 1380 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 5114 times:
Quoting lightsaber (Reply 4): So with EK competing on premium and AirAsiaX on ultra-low cost... are yeilds really that good from Perth?
Yeah pretty much they are, WA is going through a rather large minning boom, not to mention it's rather large tourist potential and huge immigrant based populations there is significant demand.
Does anyone know how many connection banks there are in DOH, just the one? Or multiple like EK?
hardiwv From Brazil, joined Oct 2004, 8780 posts, RR: 52 Reply 10, posted (3 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 4987 times:
According to information released in Brazil, QR will start DOH-GRU-EZE in June 2010, and the formal announcement was made by QR VP Marketing, Taco Nieuwenhuijsen, to Brazil's Miniter of Tourism and Brazil's President of EMBRATUR.
A Portuguese national, Antonio Bandeira, former RG staff, has been nominated QR Director for Latin America and will be based in Sao Paulo.
Thanks for the info.
They submit this schedule to ANAC as probably they find out the departure out of EZE and the early morning stop would be too disruptive for passengers. Now continues to be not a comfortable one, but better.
New York + Rio de Janeiro = One of the best combinations !
Good to see airlines using nonpeak times in GRU. What I can say is that we need more flights to fill the gap between Asia (especially South Asia) and Brazil. There are many markets which QR operates and are currently not available to Brazil (limited to EK) and which there is growing demand to Brazil.
The flight will start on 24 June which is earlier than expected. I thought it would only start late July.
QatarA340 From Qatar, joined May 2006, 1599 posts, RR: 7 Reply 14, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 3737 times:
The flights have already been loaded in the Doha AIrport's database and in the schedules. However, its still not bookable via Qatar Airways. Should be very soon.
cedars747 From Norway, joined Dec 2005, 2686 posts, RR: 23 Reply 15, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 3523 times:
It's bookable via Opodo
Departing 04:20 Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon Qatar Airways QR 421
Arriving 20:05 Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini, Argentina Qatar Airways QR 921
Departing 23:05 Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini, Argentina Qatar Airways QR 922
Arriving 03:20 + 2 day(s) Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon Qatar Airways QR 420
hardiwv From Brazil, joined Oct 2004, 8780 posts, RR: 52 Reply 16, posted (3 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 3095 times:
Quoting QatarA340 (Reply 14): The flights have already been loaded in the Doha AIrport's database and in the schedules. However, its still not bookable via Qatar Airways. Should be very soon.
GRU and EZE are now bookable via Qatar website. QR has made an agrrement with Uruguay's PU to feed its network in GRU/EZE although PU has limited network in the region.
What a lovely schedule ... not! Still, no doubt it is good for onward connections, which is presumably the main intention.
Once EZE gets up and running, maybe QR can de-link them; the EZE-DOH sector is just within the still air range of the 787 at the moment, but hopefully in due course, a higher gross weight version can make the route more comfortably.
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