Hassaan13
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- Jan 10, 2011
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This thread is for all rumours & news about Qatar starting BHX. I sent BHX an email a while ago asking them to consider new routes, and QR was one of them. I wrote about how it would benefit the community (opening up new destinations) and it has been forwarded to the Route Development team, so fingers crossed!
Back in 2006 there were rumours about a four weekly A332 QR service to BHX, but it turned out to be false. There have been rumours going on about the airline almost announcing BHX as a destination. Here is the QR extract of my email to BHX for those who are interested:
Back in 2006 there were rumours about a four weekly A332 QR service to BHX, but it turned out to be false. There have been rumours going on about the airline almost announcing BHX as a destination. Here is the QR extract of my email to BHX for those who are interested:
Qatar Airways - This is an airline that is very highly needed at BHX. Lots of people would fly on the airline, as, like Emirates, it can connect to many destinations worldwide. The reason for this is that BHX will prove to be a huge 'feeder' destination for its new ATQ bound flights as well as contribute decent volume of traffic bound for ISB, DEL, BOM, LHE, CMB, DAC, HKG, KHI, China, KUL and IKA via DOH. It can also contribute passenger on board Qatar's new SYD/MEL bound flights. From BHX, Qatar's primary competitor will be EK and to Pakistan PIA. Air India suspended BHX flights in 2008 and thus lost its BHX-ATQ/BHX-DEL route which saw good loads year round. The UK Midlands region needs a second 'quality airline' to serve the region with wide bodied aircraft heading eastwards to the ISC and Asia-Pacific region and QR fits that role perfectly. To/from BHX, the flight timings should be:
QRXX Dep DOH 0700 Arr BHX 1200
QRXX Dep BHX 1400 Arr DOH 2300
These flight timings mentioned above allow perfect connections via DOH in both directions to India, Pakistan, Australia, HKG, SIN, DAC, CMB, DPS, KUL, PEK, PVG, KIX, CGK, CAN and GCC. This should be enough to fill up the flight on a year round basis.