QATAR Airways is contemplating deploying the larger Airbus A330 or Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on its Doha-Kolkata-Doha service, less than four months after the launch of Airbus A320 flights to the eastern Indian metropolis.
The flag carrier has been encouraged by the consistently high demand on the route despite the global economic slowdown, with the load factor on the daily flight averaging above 90 per cent.
“Qatar Airways is now confident to increase capacity”, said Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker. “We are very careful when launching new sectors and do not believe in de-stabilising the market by flooding supply or cutting prices.”
Anil Punjabi, chairman-east, Travel Agents Federation of India, said: “Qatar Airways is offering the shortest connection to European destinations and this is creating increasing demand with frequent fliers”.
K. Goswami, manager tours of Kolkata-based Travelcorp, said: “Easy connections to growing outbound destinations like Spain, Italy and Canada make it easy for us to offer these routes to our leisure clients.”
