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Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive H E Akbar Al Baker has said that Qatar's national flag carrier is set to expand its partnerships with other carriers.
Speaking at CAPA Live, Akbar Al Baker said: 'Today, we are very close with American Airlines, we are now going to expand our partnerships with other carriers, Air Canada is an example. In our industry, we are not adversaries, we are part of a larger aviation family.
Qatar Airways shared a number of videos on its official Twitter account yesterday of Akbar Al Baker speaking at CAPA Live. In a video, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive talked about the future of aviation industry in post-pandemic era.
He said: 'After this pandemic is over, there will be fewer airlines that will be operating for certain. By the grace of God we will be one of them because we have persevered and have carried the flag of Qatar internationally.
He added: 'We have established ourselves very strongly; made everybody aware of our brand, our product.
In the interview, Al Baker said: 'The A350s and B787s are very efficient aircraft when it comes to emissions, especially the A350-1000, which exceeded our expectations with its efficiency that it is producing today.
Al Baker further said: 'Post-COVID, we will look at which routes we will reintroduce earlier than the other, Qatar Airways will serve all the routes we had launched after the blockade and what we had launched before the COVID restrictions happened.
Meanwhile, Qatar Airways announced yesterday resuming its services to King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah with 4 weekly flights.
It is pertinent to mention here that Qatar Airways is already on the course to expand its partnerships with other airlines. Recently, it signed an expanded code-share agreement with Oman Air to boost connectivity and provide more flexible travel options for both airlines' customers.
Last month Qatar Airways announced that the first stage of codeshare cooperation with China Southern Airlines had begun with the Chinese carrier placing its code on Qatar Airways flights between Guangzhou and Doha.
In November 2020, Qatar Airways finalised a codeshare agreement with Air Canada for travel between Doha and Toronto. The agreement reinforced Qatar Airways' long-term commitment to Canadian passengers, and to boosting Canada's global connectivity to support the recovery of tourism and trade.
Regarding state-of-the-art fleet of Qatar Airways, the national flag carrier had said in an earlier statement that Qatar Airways was able to continue flying throughout the pandemic thanks to its varied fleet of modern, fuel-efficient aircraft that allowed it to offer the right passenger and cargo capacity in each market as its operations were not dependent on any specific aircraft type.
Instead, the airline's fleet of 52 Airbus A350 and 30 Boeing 787 are the ideal choice for the most strategically important long-haul routes to Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. In the last few months of 2020, Qatar Airways took delivery of three Airbus A350-1000s, reaffirming its position as the largest operator of Airbus A350 aircraft.
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