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Qatar to launch US flights
Qatar Airways will launch flights from Doha to New York and Washington D.C. in the summer and will add other destinations over the next few months.
From June 28 it will start four flights a week to New York while Washington will be a daily flight. The launch date for Washington has not yet been confirmed.
“Our first move into the US market this summer represents an important step in the history of Qatar Airways as we launch not one, but two destinations in North America,” said Qatar Airways chief executive Oofficer Akbar Al Baker.
Scheduled flights to Chennai (formerly Madras), Bali and Ho Chi Minh City will begin towards the end of this month.
They follow the launch of services to Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos on March 1.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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