Launched in time for the Eid break, Qatar Airways has a new online portal to assist passengers to apply for and manage their ticket refund process in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

The announcement is part of the award-winning global airline’s ongoing efforts to limit inconvenience to those of its passengers affected by the recent airspace and office closures, alongside the blocking of the"...

Minister of Transport and Communications H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti has praised the extension of the meeting of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to study the file of the State of Qatar on the effects due to embargo imposed by the three Gulf States on aviation security and safety.
In a statement, the Minister praised the decision of the ICAO member states to hold a hearing session on June 30 regarding Qatar's request submitted to the international organisation about the measures"...

Qatar Airways wants to buy 10 per cent of American Airlines, a move cloaked so heavily in international trade and politics that American's CEO finds it puzzling.

American has tried to convince two successive United States administrations that Qatar and two other state-owned Middle Eastern carriers get illegal subsidies from their governments. Qatar has fought back in the increasingly nasty dispute. Now Qatar is suffering because its nation is"...

An offer by Qatar Airways to buy 10 percent of American Airlines has been dismissed by the US carrier’s CEO as “confusing” and “ill-conceived.”
'It makes no sense. Why an airline we are aggressively fighting would want to take a stake makes no sense,” American Airlines Chairman and CEO
Doug Parker said in an interview with CNBC.
Parker said Qatar CEO Akbar Al-Baker has offered to buy about 10 percent of the airline's stock, which would cost about $2.4 billion."...

India will run special flights for its citizens to return from Qatar, which has been hit by travel and trade boycott by other Gulf nations.

Civil Aviation Minister, Ashok Gajapati Raju, said that Air India and private airlines will operate additional flights to Doha from Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Mumbai.

He assured that Indians are not stranded in Qatar but many have not been able to get tickets due to the additional demand caused by the rush to return after the blockade. Nearly 7 lakh Indians"...

There will be additional flights from Doha to two southern Indian airports from June 25 to July 8, travel industry sources have said. While additional Air India Express flights are to be operated on the Thiruvananathapuram-Doha-Cochin-Thiruvanathapuram sector for the 14 days from Sunday, Jet Airways will operate two flights between Mumbai and Doha today and tomorrow. The two airline companies have introduced additional flights on a request made by Indian ambassador P Kumaran to the Indian civil aviation ministry. The envoy"...

Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), one of the world’s largest air cargo handlers, has won a three year contract to provide cargo handling for Qatar Airways in Stockholm. The Middle Eastern airline operates 13 direct flights a week between the Swedish capital and Doha.

WFS, which was awarded the contract following a tender process, expects to handle some 12,000 t"...

Bombardier Inc.’s marquee C Series jet, which hasn’t won a major new contract in more than a year, got a boost from interest at Qatar Airways and Air Baltic Corp. and from a new jet-leasing venture between the planemaker’s largest outside shareholder and General Electric Co.

The single-aisle model could be suited"...

Since the UAE government’s announcement that it would cut diplomatic ties with Qatar earlier this month, five UAE-based carriers have suspended all flights to and from Doha. The suspension came into effect on June 6 and is until further notice.

The move came as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt said they would sever diplomatic ties with Qatar amid escalating tensions and accusations that Doha sponsors terrorism.

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