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What no Changi Cybermen at Singapore’s Terminal 3 opening?
Seeing the pictures of bemused passengers being greeted as they disembarked the first flight to arrive at Singapore Changi’s new Terminal 3 reminded me of the day the airport did exactly the same in...
View ArticleFarnborough Video: Qatar Airways chief Akbar Al Baker speaks out
One of the airline industry’s best interviews is Qatar Airways chairman and chief executive Akbar Al Baker. I caught up with him in a joint interview with Max Kingsley-Jones, the deputy editor of...
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Gulf Air CEO Bjorn Naf: Playing catch up in Bahrain
The 6th Formula 1 Grand Prix of Bahrain this weekend is causing enormous excitement here in the Kingdom of Bahrain – and so it should. This small Gulf state is quietly proud to be the first country in...
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Video: Qatar Airways biofuels experiment goes live
Flightglobal’s very own Max Kingsley-Jones features in this excellent CNN video of last week’s biofuel powered flight by Qatar Airways. Max was on the flight – as is obvious from the video – and wrote...
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ITB: All the fun of the fair
The great and the good of the travel industry met for the annual ITB Berlin travel trade show last week. It was held against the backdrop of cautious optimism for the economic recovery, especially...
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Qatar Airways to join Star Alliance. Maybe.
Hard to tell precisely what German model-maker Schabak has printed just behind the cockpit windows of its Qatar A380, but it looks suspiciously like the Star Alliance logo. If it is, then Qatar...
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Debt-ridden football club Portsmouth owes Qatar Airways…20p
I know creditor lists which emerge when companies go into administration have a habit of showing up some pretty quirky items in amongst the financial carnage, but I can’t get my head round this one....
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FARN10: Qatar 777 replaces 787 in the prime show location
The 787 departed Farnborough yesterday. Overnight, the prime real estate it occupied has been grabbed by the Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300ER and the 787 signs on Boeing’s chalet in that area have been...
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IATA Annual Meeting 2012 – best of the quotes
A selection of quotes, significant, trivial and amusing, extracted from my notebook following the 68th Annual General Meeting of IATA that took place in Beijing from 10-12 June. “I want emphasise this...
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Kylie coup turns up the heat in the battle of the Gulf carriers
Qatar Airways promised an IATA annual general meeting that nobody would forget in Doha and this was certainly the case as the world’s airlines executive met this week for their AGM. “Our friends at...
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