Today it emerged that Qatar Airways has bought another stake in an airline. This time it spent $662m on a near 10% stake in Cathay Pacific. The move by the airline follows a pattern as the table illustrates. We can…
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) declined to involve itself in the Qatar aviation crisis after the Gulf state filed a complaint against four countries that cut diplomatic, economic and transport ties with it. We have been watching the impact…
Qatar Airways’ CEO is used to playing with the media. He does this at every opportunity at every industry event he attends. The media squash, push and squeeze into the tiniest spaces at events to be within earshot. He never…
Once again, Akbar Al Baker, Chief Executive of Qatar Airways is making news at the Paris Air Show in several areas. We will quickly summarize them here: 1. An Equity Stake in American Today’s announcement that Qatar has approached American…
Mr. Akbar Al Baker is not a man easily intimidated as the this CNN interview shows. One has to be sympathetic to the position he finds himself in. Politics has intefered in a most unpleasant way. As he points out,…
We did an earlier look at this issue and now we can show more progress. So far 74 have been delivered. The table lists these along with the number of days from first flight to delivery. We list the number…