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Qatar Airways starts Canada flights

30 Jun 2011

(MENAFN) Qatar Airways CEO, Akbar Al Baker, said that the carrier started its first flight to Montreal to become the company’s eighth of 15 routes scheduled to be launched this year, reported Gulf News.

Al Baker added that the carrier would operate three services a week to the city’s Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, where each flight would take 13 non stop hours.

He also said that the carrier operated its flagship Boeing 777-200 Long Range aircraft on the route, configured with 42 seats in Business Class and 217 seats in Economy, where each seat would offer a fully interactive audio and video entertainment system with more than 900 programming options to choose from.

It is worth noting that in 2011, Qatar Airways added seven destinations to its international flights, which include Bucharest, Budapest, Brussels, Stuttgart, Aleppo, Shiraz and Venice, moreover, it is preparing for more route expansion with additional seven cities being inducted by the end of this year.

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