Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways has reported $1.2 billion in profits over the past year, buoyed by its role in ferrying fans to the soccer World Cup.

The long-haul airline increased its revenue to $21 billion, a 45 percent increase over the previous year, it said.

Its yearly passenger load reached 31.7 million, a 71 percent increase.

Turkish Airlines has been named Europe's best airline for an eighth time by Skytrax, the international air transport rating organization.

The flag carrier also bagged awards in the best Airline in Southern Europe, best Business Class catering, best Economy class catering and best economy class seat in Europe categories.

The European Commission's transport unit chief Henrik Hololei has been transferred to another post, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday. The transfer comes after a row over several Qatar-paid trips Hololei took.

DOHA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Monday wrapped up his first working visit to Qatar, during which he had a bilateral meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

It was their first meeting to date and addressed bilateral cooperation, the economy, food supplies, energy and investments.

Technology giant Microsoft announced Wednesday it will create 36,000 jobs in Qatar to boost the Gulf state's efforts to move away from reliance on its oil and gas industry.    

Created with support from the Qatar government, the new cloud data centre will be one of the US firm's biggest international projects.    

In a few days, SKY express will strengthen its fleet with a new Airbus A320neo. The airline, which during the pandemic renewed its fleet with new aircraft and "opened" its activity abroad, is launching in 2023 the acquisition of two more A321 type aircraft.

Airbus has taken the extraordinary step of cancelling an order of 50 planes from Qatar Airways in an escalating feud over the airline's grounding of A350 aircraft.

The Qatari company, one of the Gulf region's "big three" carriers, has grounded part of its A350 fleet over degradation of exterior fuselage surfaces.

The Taliban on Sept. 1 paraded some of the military hardware they captured during their takeover of Afghanistan, as a team from Qatar landed at the trashed airport in Kabul - a first step towards getting the facility back up and running as a lifeline for aid.

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«Σκαρφάλωσε» οκτώ θέσεις η Qatar Airways λόγω των μέτρων προστασίας κατά του κορωνοϊού - Οι λίστες

Qatar Airways claimed on Wednesday that all the passengers in a flight that landed in Athens on June 1 had tested negative to coronavirus when they boarded its plane in Doha.

Greece on Tuesday announced it was suspending flights to and from Qatar until mid-June, after 12 out of the 91 passengers in the flight QR203
were found to be infected.