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MENAFN - The Peninsula
- 04/06/2005
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doha: Qatar Airways has launched its award-winning Five Star service to Mashad, Iran's second largest city, with its new twice-weekly flights from the airline's operational hub of Doha.
The inaugural flight from Doha International Airport touched down at Mashad International Airport with a delegation led by Qatar Airways Senior Manager Commercial Operations Arabian Peninsula, Iran, South Asia and Myanmar, Ali Al Rais. Onboard were a mix of Saudi Arabian and Bahraini tour operators and travel agents.
The route is operated with an Airbus A320 in a two-class configuration of 12 seats in Business and 132 in Economy.
Mashad becomes Qatar Airways second destination in Iran. To celebrate the route launch, Qatar Airways is offering members of its Privilege Club frequent flyer programme with double Qmiles for the first full month of the new Mashad flights.
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said the Tehran route had performed extremely well, prompting the airline to step up capacity from four to five flights a week soon after the launch.
"Tehran has proved to be a very important and busy route for Qatar Airways which is why we increased capacity last year. We are now delighted to add Mashad as our second point in Iran and serve the growing needs of our passengers, many of whom will be travelling from neighbouring Middle East markets to Iran," he said.
"Mashad is the first of our three new routes this month as we launch Alexandria on June 9 and Athens on June 15 in line with our expansion plans. These three new routes alone will take our global network to 65 destinations worldwide.
"Our new routes will be ideal for pilgrims, holidaymakers and business travellers from the region and, indeed around the world, who can feed into our flights in and out of Doha," the CEO, added. By the end of 2005, the airline plans to serve at least 70 destinations.
The Doha- Mashad flight, QR 486 departs the Doha International Airport at 12Noon on Monday and Wednesday to arrive in the Iranian city at 3.45pm, local time. Return flight QR 487 departs Mashad at 7pm and lands in Doha at 7.45pm, local time, on Monday and Wednesday.
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