Qatar Airways are launching new flights to Guangzhou
Published: 19/05/08
Qatar Airways are making plans to fill the gap in the market for flights from the southern Chinese industrial port city of Guangzhou.
Guangzhou has one of the fastest growing economies so Qatar will start their flights in the summer season of this year. Doha-based Qatar Airways will become the first airline from the Gulf to serve Guangzhou. It will operate four flights-a-week non-stop using an Airbus A330 aircraft in a two-class configuration of up to 24 seats in Business Class and a maximum 248 in Economy.
The additional flights from Guangzhou build up Qatar Airways' whole China network.They already operate flights to Beijing , Shanghai and Hong Kong, totalling 16 flights per week. With the addition of Guangzhou, this takes the airline's capacity into China up to 20 flights a week. From May 1, Qatar Airways adds a fifth weekly service to Guangzhou.