Qatar Airways today celebrated the launch of scheduled flights to the central Indian city of Nagpur marking the airline's seventh destination in India.
The Civil Aviation Minister of India, the Honourable Shri. Praful Patel, was among the guests at Dr. Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur, to welcome the first flight and the airline's Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker who flew on the inaugural from Doha.
Flight QR288 touched down at the city's airport this morning to a welcome ceremony, which included Indian dancing and the symbolic traditional lighting of the lamp, seen as an auspicious occasion to herald launches.
Qatar Airways is the only full-service scheduled international airline from the Middle East flying to Nagpur. The launch of twice-weekly flights between Doha, capital of the State of Qatar, and Nagpur takes the airline's burgeoning network across India to 44 services a week.
The Nagpur route is being operated with an Airbus A320 aircraft in a two-class configuration of 12 seats in Business Class and 132 in Economy.
Qatar Airways is today one of the largest foreign airlines serving India with flights to seven cities - Nagpur, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Trivandrum, Cochin and Hyderabad. With the launch of daily flights between Doha and Gujarat state's largest city of Ahmedabad in western India starting on December 12, Qatar Airways will reach a milestone 51 services a week linking Qatar with India.
