Qatar Airways announces new European routes

Qatar Airways has announced several new routes from its Doha base. The new routes consist of the following markets;

From November 24th, a 3x weekly service from Nice, which will be an extension of its existing Milan service. There is no existing service from Doha to Nice or Milan (MXP) to Nice.

From January, 2011, Qatar will launch new 5x weekly non-stop service to Brussels. Traffic flows on this route currently fly primarily via Istanbul with Turkish.

Qatar will also launch new service to Budapest via Bucharest. Both market are relatively thin O+D markets but will target behind and beyond traffic via its Doha hub.