Qatar Airways to add eight belly routes in 2017-18

Qatar Airways to add eight belly routes in 2017-18

Qatar Airways is to add another eight more bellyhold routes in 2017-18 – in addition to seven previously announced new cities for a total of 15 new gateways.

Joining the network are: Canberra, Australia; Dublin, Ireland; Las Vegas, USA; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Santiago, Chile; Medan, in Indonesia; and Tabuk and Yanbu, both in Saudi Arabia.

These newly-announced destinations join the already announced list of new routes to start in 2017. Auckland, New Zealand will start 5 February 2017; and in 2017 it will start Sarajevo, Bosnia; Skopje, Macedonia; Libreville, Gabon; Nice, France; Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Douala, Cameroon.

Qatar Airways has opened 12 new destinations in 2016 year-to-date, with two more cities set to join the network in December. It will begin services to Krabi, Thailand, on 6 December and service returns to the Seychelles on 12 December.

The carriers runs bellyhold services to more than 150 destinations.

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James Graham is an award-winning transport media journalist with a long background in the commercial freight sector, including commercial aviation and the aviation supply chain. He was the initial Air Cargo Week journalist and retuned later for a stint as editor. He continues his association as editor of the monthly supplements. He has reported for the newspaper from global locations as well as the UK.

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