Qatar sending 50 jets to Saudi Arabia for new airline | Plane Talking:
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While Gulf airlines seem to be demonised in the same terms by their opponents in the debate about how all of them apart from Emirates are bad for Qantas Australia, the three majors, which include Etihad and Qatar Airways are rapidly becoming less similar to each other.
In the case of Qatar this was underlined at the recent Bahrain Air Show, where it gave more detail to previously announced plans for its launching this year of a new domestic airline in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi airline market bears some resemblance to Australia’s at the end of the two airline policy. The kingdom is open to foreign backed domestic competition and decades of stasis, but the barriers that remain are substantial, as described in this earlier CAPA analysis of the plans for the new carrier, which will be called Al Maha.
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said that apart from some possible short leases, Al Maha wouldn’t need to buy any airliners for its 50 strong fleet of single aisle and wide body Airbuses. To summarise his comments, Qatar has more than enough planes already and will send what is needed into neighboring Saudi Arabia."
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| A Qatar Airways A320, soon to 'colonise' Saudi skies? Wiki Commons |
In the case of Qatar this was underlined at the recent Bahrain Air Show, where it gave more detail to previously announced plans for its launching this year of a new domestic airline in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi airline market bears some resemblance to Australia’s at the end of the two airline policy. The kingdom is open to foreign backed domestic competition and decades of stasis, but the barriers that remain are substantial, as described in this earlier CAPA analysis of the plans for the new carrier, which will be called Al Maha.
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said that apart from some possible short leases, Al Maha wouldn’t need to buy any airliners for its 50 strong fleet of single aisle and wide body Airbuses. To summarise his comments, Qatar has more than enough planes already and will send what is needed into neighboring Saudi Arabia."
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