Qatar Airways announces VN expansion plan

Qatar Airways has announced a massive expansion plan for its operations in Viet Nam, with Ha Noi on November 1 becoming the airline’s second hub in the country, with four weekly flights to Doha operating via Bangkok.

Qatar Airways’ HCM City route will be expanded to a daily service with three extra flights a week heading to Doha, also via Bangkok, adding to the four non-stop direct flights in operation since March 2007.

The expansion will boost Qatar Airways’ services to 11 flights a week from Viet Nam to Doha, with connections to destinations throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.

The new Viet Nam flights are part of a global expansion programme that will add six new routes over a four-month period from October 2010. Additional frequencies will also be added to select existing routes.

Marwan Koleilat, Qatar Airways Senior Vice President for Commercial East Asia&Southwest Pacific, said that Viet Nam was a key growth market for the airline.

“The new route to Ha Noi and the boosting of our HCM City flights to daily services demonstrate the confidence that Qatar Airways has in Viet Nam,” he said.

“We have a serious commitment to the Vietnamese people not only to bring tourists to Viet Nam, who will contribute to the economy, but to also provide the travelling public access a growing global network and world-class airline services.” — VNS

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