Wednesday, 09 January 2013

Doha:  Qatar Airways yesterday announced daily scheduled services on the Doha-Warsaw route, effective February 1.

The current four-times-a-week service is scheduled to move to a daily operation less than two months after the launch of flights to Poland's capital city.

The frequency rise follows a pledge by Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker in December to introduce more flights on the Warsaw route once there was strong passenger demand.

"I have been pleasantly surprised how well the route has performed since adding the latest European gateway to our ever-expanding global network last month," he said.

"When we enter new markets, we do so carefully with limited capacity and then develop routes with more capacity once we see evidence that additional flights are warranted. Today's development is welcome news for the people of Poland with more choice of flights and a great international network to choose from, specifically to Asia, Australia and the Middle East."

Similarly, Al Baker said passengers from around the world will have more connectivity into Poland each day of the week. 

"Serving popular routes with multi-frequency flights is one of our key strategies. We were confident that the Doha-Warsaw service would become a highly popular route, but didn't expect this to happen so soon," added Al Baker.

Marking Qatar Airways' 32nd destination in Europe, the Doha-Warsaw route was launched on December 5 with a grand reception at the Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport. 

Warsaw became the 12th and final new route of the year in the airline's expanding global route map covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America. 

Qatar Airways offers the fastest connection times between Warsaw via the airline's Doha hub to popular Asian destinations such as Hanoi, New Delhi, Mumbai, Goa, Male, Riyadh, Bangkok and Colombo.

All flights on the Doha-Warsaw route are operated with a modern Airbus A320, featuring 144 seats in a two-class configuration of 12 in Business Class and 132 in Economy. The aircraft offers seatback TV screens providing passengers with the next generation interactive onboard entertainment system and a choice of more than 800 audio and video on demand options, together with an SMS text messaging service from each seat.

Over the next few weeks and months, Qatar Airways will launch flights to a diverse portfolio of new routes, including Najaf, Iraq (January 23); Phnom Penh, Cambodia (February 20); Chengdu, China (March 19); Chicago,  the US (April 10); and Salalah, Oman (May 22). 

The Doha-Warsaw daily schedules, effective February 1: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays QR980   departs Doha at 0920 hrs  arrives in Warsaw at 1320hrs

QR981   departs Warsaw at 1535hrs  to arrive in Doha at 2255hrs. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays QR982  departs Doha at 0230hrs and arrives in Warsaw at 0630 hrs QR983  departs Warsaw at 1105 hrs to land Doha at 1825hrs.

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