Gulf carrier Qatar Airways plans to resume a direct flight to Nagpur from Doha by December, which it had discontinued over six year ago due to poor passenger traffic on the sector at that time.
The reinstated flight will be serviced by a 144-seater Airbus A320 in two class cabin with 12 seats in business class and 132 in economy class, Qatar Airways said in a release today.
Qatar Airways had previously operated air services to Nagpur from Doha between January 2008 and May 2009.
"Reinstating the Doha-Nagpur route is part of Qatar Airways' strategy to service increasing demand. Today, India has the largest number of destinations served by our carrier across any market and we will continue to look for more destinations and additional flights to expand our reach in the Indian subcontinent," Qatar Airways group chief executive Akbar Al Baker said.
After the resumption of the Nagpur flight, the number of weekly flights operated by Qatar Airways across 13 cities in India would go up to 102 from the 95 at present, the release said.
Qatar Airways at present operates flight from 12 cities in India - New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode and Goa - via its hub in Doha to global destinations such as Barcelona, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, London, Miami, New York, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, Washington DC, among others.
Qatar Airways has been in discussion with India's largest airline by market share IndiGo for a possible commercial collaboration for quite some time.
