Qatar Airways and American Airlines Sign Codeshare Agreement

Qatar Airways has signed a big codeshare settlement with American Airlines in a transfer that may improve business cooperation, bolster connectivity and create a whole lot of recent journey choices for tens of millions of shoppers. The new settlement will set up a partnership at a worldwide degree between two of the world’s most linked airways, linking a number of the largest airport hubs within the US to Hamad International Airport in Doha, voted the Middle East’s finest hub and holder of a spot on the earth’s prime 5 airports for the final three years.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker stated: “We are very pleased to secure this strategic partnership with American Airlines – an agreement between two successful and ambitious airlines with a shared common purpose to enhance the customer experience. The deal will bring together two of the world’s largest airline networks, increasing choices for millions of passengers and providing seamless connectivity to a significant number of new destinations, in line with Qatar Airways’ successful growth strategy. We have moved on from past issues and look forward to working closely with American Airlines to build a world-leading partnership for all our customers. This agreement will harness our complementary strengths and resources and enable more customers to experience Qatar Airways’ award-winning product quality.”

“Our goal is to continue to expand and deepen global partnerships to complement American’s network and create more choice for our customers,” stated American’s Chairman and CEO Doug Parker. “The issues that led to the suspension of our partnership two years ago have been addressed and we believe resuming our codeshare agreement will allow us to provide service to markets that our customers, team members and shareholders value, including new growth opportunities for American Airlines. We look forward to the renewed cooperation between our airlines and hope to build an even stronger relationship with Qatar Airways over time.”

The codeshare settlement with American Airlines (AA) will enable Qatar Airways’ passengers to journey on AA home flights departing Boston (BOS), Dallas (DFW), Chicago (ORD), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), New York (JFK) and Philadelphia (PHL), and in addition to on AA worldwide flights to and from Europe, the Carribean, Central and South America. American Airlines passengers will be capable of ebook journey on all Qatar Airways flights between the US and Qatar and past to a spread of locations within the Middle-East, East Africa, South Asia, the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia.

Following the reactivation of the codeshare, each airways can even discover the chance for American Airlines to function flights between the USA and Qatar, together with a variety of joint business and operational initiatives to additional strengthen this renewed partnership. Qatar Airways presently operates a contemporary fleet of greater than 250 plane by way of its hub, Hamad International Airport (HIA), to greater than 170 locations worldwide. The world’s fastest-growing airline will add Osaka, Japan; Santorini, Greece; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Almaty and Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan; Accra, Ghana; Cebu, Philippines; Lyon, France; Trabzon, Turkey; Siem Reap, Cambodia and Luanda, Angola to its intensive community in 2020.

Multiple award-winning airways, Qatar Airways was named ‘World’s Best Airline’ by the 2019 World Airline Awards, managed by the worldwide air transport score organisation Skytrax. It was additionally named ‘Best Airline in the Middle East’, ‘World’s Best Business Class’, and ‘Best Business Class Seat’, in recognition of its ground-breaking Business Class expertise, Qsuite. It is the one airline to have been awarded the “Skytrax Airline of the Year” title, which is recognised as the head of excellence within the airline {industry}, 5 occasions.

American Airlines gives clients 6,800 day by day flights to greater than 365 locations in 61 international locations from its hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, DC With a shared goal of caring for folks on life’s journey, American’s 130,000 world workforce members serve greater than 200 million clients yearly. Since 2013, American has invested greater than $28 billion in its product and folks and now flies the youngest fleet amongst US community carriers, outfitted with industry-leading high-speed Wi-Fi, lie-flat seats, and extra inflight leisure and entry to energy. American additionally has enhanced meals and beverage choices within the air and on the bottom in its world-class Admirals Club and Flagship Lounges. American was not too long ago named a Five Star Global Airline by the Airline Passenger Experience Association and Airline of the Year by Air Transport World. American is a founding member of Oneworld, whose members serve 1,100 locations in 180 international locations and territories.