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Today Qatar Airways celebrates its 10th anniversary flying to Belgium. They landed in Brussels for the very first time on 31 Jan 2011, and now, they operate five flights weekly to the heart of #Europe.
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sn26567 wrote: 31 Jan 2021, 23:02 Today Qatar Airways celebrates its 10th anniversary flying to Belgium. They landed in Brussels for the very first time on 31 Jan 2011, and now, they operate five flights weekly to the heart of #Europe.
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Qatar Airways Cargo has removed its remaining four A330-200Fs, as three B777Fs were delivered in January 2021, with two more to follow by May. The A330s are headed to Air Belgium.

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Qatar Airways Website shows that from tomorrow Qatar Airways will serve Kigali with the B777-300ER replacing the B787 FlightRadar still showing the B787 (yesterday it showed the B77W). Similar thing happened few weeks ago with the A350.


In 2020 Qatar Airways B777-300ER made its 1st visit at Kigali since they started flights in 2012

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Cargo flight during the lockdown 1st commercial flight after the reopening of the boarders
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Qatar Airways Website shows that from tomorrow Qatar Airways will serve Kigali with the B777-300ER replacing the B787 FlightRadar still showing the B787 (yesterday it showed the B77W). Similar thing happened few weeks ago with the A350.

I was actually a little surprised to see that QR was sending 777-300ER. But according to the head of Africa of the company, in normal times they were 200 pax on the Doha-Entebbe-Kigali-Entebbe-Doha. There they run at 400 pax on average.

Well to be honest Uganda is a bigger market compared to Rwanda so logically the majority of pax go down to Entebbe. But the demand for cargo is significant. Even if in Rwanda which is not necessarily a big market, there is at the moment a big demand for flowers, tea, vegetables mainly in Europe and Asia. I think that QR is happy

With the day stop in Kigali, no need to wait 8 to 10 hrs in Doha to pick up most of the destinations for North / South America, some destinations in Eastern Europe and Asia.

I was septical when new competitors arrived in Rwanda about 10 years ago, breaking the big monopoly of Brussels Airlines and those of Ethiopian and Kenya Airways. Finally Turkish Airlines, Egytpair (route launched a year before the covid and which resumed at the end of 2020), KLM ** and Qatar Airways worl well in Rwanda. Only South African Airways (2nd attempt) and FlyDubai failed.

I think thr duel for the next decade in Africa will be between Turkish Airlines / Qatar Airways / Ethiopian Airlines At least it has forced EU airlines to deploy their brand new planes over Africa. AF uses the A350 and 787 on much of its network in West Africa. Africa is no longer the last served.

**: we were less than 40 pax on the first Kigali-Amsterdam flight, in 2010 with my brother. : mrgreen:

Qatar Airways to operate bigger Boeing 777 to Entebbe and Kigali

Qatar Airways continues demonstrating its commitment in Africa and in response to strong demand, has operated its largest twin-engine aircraft, the Boeing 777 to Entebbe and Kigali for the first time.

“This aircraft will be operating on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Its official flights started Monday this week due to an increase in the number of passengers from 200 passengers on average over 400 passengers per day, ”the Qatar Airways Vice President Africa, Mr Hendrik Du Preez, said in a statement released on Monday a few hours after the aircraft landed from Doha to Entebbe at 6:00 am.

He said that by June this year, they will be operating four times a week.
“Frequency will increase in June and we shall be operating on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.


https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/n ... li-3310670

https://www.facebook.com/qatarairways/p ... 3422807212

Doses of vaccines arrived this morning in Kigali via Qatar Airways
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the fourth new destination in Africa announced by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.

Qatar Airways is currently building a strong network in Africa.

We will surely have a fight, Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Qatar Airways in Africa. Maybe Air France behind. It is probably the only European company to be able to fight against the 3 others. Emirates ? I am waiting for to see because with the arrival of 787 they will probably open new routes in Africa: I am thinking of Maputo or Kigali, or Monrovia or Freetown. On Emirates.com you can find their contact offices at Monrovia (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... W/monrovia) (, Freetown (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... A/freetown) and Kigali (https://www.emirates.com/english/help/o ... gl/kigali/). I don't konw if it means something


Qatar Airways to launch 3 weekly flights to Abidjan from June 16


Doha: Qatar Airways has announced it will operate three weekly flights to Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire via Accra from June 16 2021 becoming the fourth new destination in Africa announced by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic.

The Abidjan service will be operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner featuring 22 seats in Business Class and 232 seats in Economy Class.

https://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/artic ... om-June-16
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The Africa manager of Qatar Airways explains that pax making Luanda-Doha-Johannesburg or Algiers-Doha-Monrovia enable them to generate a little bit of mmoney. QR does not serve Monrovia, I suppose they have the possibility of transporting pax thanks to the interline with Air Cote d'Ivoire which serves Accra and Lagos

I mentioned this case when I talk about the African Aviation. Companies not necessarily reliable, high prices, weaknesses of regional routes ... generally due to weak trade relations between African countries which trade more with Asia and Europe, restrictions regarding open sky agreements between African countries, and difficulty to move across the continent (visas difficult to obtain, ...)

So sometimes more interesting to go through Dubai, Doha, Brussels, Istanbul or Paris to travel in Africa.

It's like if a large number of pax in Paris regularly passed through Doha to go to Helsinki

Route Online: Are there still routes where good yields will be generated? [/ B]

When we look for example to the big oil and gas companies, they are very much focused on safety and reliability.

We see for example a kind of regular traffic from Luanda in Angola to Johannesburg in South Africa via Doha. Or from Algiers to Liberia via Doha.

They send some employees on a 20-hour trip and make sure they arrive at the destination safe, instead of taking the chance on an unreliable carrier for a much shorter flight.

You find some interesting routings in Africa, it is always about adding and adapting. Every market is unique and challenging.

https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/br ... -du-preez/
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Qatar Airways adds two more destinations in Nigeria: Kano and Port Harcourt.

QR currently serves Abuja and Lagos

Competition will be stiff with Ethiopian Airlines that has also a big network in Nigeria (4 destinations) and also the fact that Qatar Airways has code share agreements with RwandAir to Lagos and Abuja enabling more choice for Nigerians travelling to or from Asia either via Kigali or Doha (or both) Together with RwandAir / Qatar Airways: up to 3 flights a day to Lagos and up to 2 flights a day to Abuja.

Qatar Airways announces service to Kano and Port Harcourt

Doha: Qatar Airways is boosting its service to Nigeria with the launch of four weekly flights to Kano (KAN) on March 2, 2022, and three weekly flights to Port Harcourt (PHC) on March 3, 2022, both operating via the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

The airline currently operates two daily flights to Lagos and four times a week to Abuja, which will expand to a daily service in March. Kano and Port Harcourt will become the seventh and eight new African gateways launched by Qatar Airways since the start of the pandemic. Both routes will be served by the state-of-the-art Boeing 787 Dreamliner, featuring 22 seats in Business Class and 232 in Economy Class.

https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/1 ... t-harcourt
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