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Flying domestic: Qatar Airways is planning a fully-owned airline in India

Last Oct it bought 60 Boeing aircraft, some of which might be used to fly domestic routes in India

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Qatar Airways stewardesses pose at the International Tourism Trade Fair ITB in Berlin (Photo: Reuters)

Aneesh PhadnisArindam Majumder Mumbai/ New Delhi
State-owned carrier of Qatar, Qatar Airways, will start a new domestic airline in India, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Akbar Al Baker announced on Wednesday.

While he did not elaborate on the plans, Al Baker, responding to media queries at an event in Berlin, said the airline would partner with his government’s investment arm, Qatar Investment Authority, and soon make an application to the Indian government for approval. This would make it India’s first fully owned foreign airline.

In the past, Qatar Airways has repeatedly expressed a desire to invest in IndiGo, the country’s largest domestic airline. 

Sources said Qatar

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