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  Volume: XX, Issue No. 02 September 1-15, 2010  
     
 
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  Qatar Airways launches flights in South America and Vietnam, planning more flights to Far East

_A Monitor Report
Doha : Qatar Airways has launched scheduled daily flights to Brazil and Argentina. The new routes offer connections to and from Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, Beijing, Melbourne, Nairobi, Beirut, Dubai and Muscat using Boeing B777-200 Long Range aircraft.

The airlines is also to boost Vietnam services with plans to introduce a daily Ho Chi Minh City service and the addition of Hanoi to its network. The expansion will take the total number of Doha-Vietnam flights offered by the carrier to 11 per week.

The ever-growing airlines is exploring further in the Far East following the successful launch of flights to Tokyo, its newest Asian destination. In a recent press conference in Japanese capital to mark the launch of the flight, airline's chief executive officer Akbar al-Baker said Qatar Airways is seeing strong demand for air travel from the entire Asian region and is planning to open up a number of new routes.

The national carrier's direct daily services between Doha and Tokyo's Narita Interna-tional Airport, launched in April, have become one of the company's top performing routes within its first two months of operation. Qatar Airways is also stepping up frequency between Doha and Bangkok from double daily flights to three services a day from the end of October.

Al-Baker stated that Qatar is also an important destination with over 1,000 Japanese expatriates living in Doha and over 30 leading Japanese companies engaged in business from across the utility, energy and heavy industry sectors.

Qatar Airways Senior Vice President (commercial) East Asia and South West Pacific, Marwan Koleilat, asserted that the new service to Tokyo Narita is yet another important milestone for the airline linking up with Doha, an ideal hub from where customers can get onward connections to Europe, Africa, Middle East and the Americas.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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