Flydubai, Oman Air, Kuwait Airways and Saudia airways will function shuttle flights throughout the World Cup to assist ease logistical and lodging points.
Qatar Airways has introduced that fellow Gulf Arab airways will function greater than 160 every day shuttle flights to Qatar throughout this yr’s soccer World Cup, permitting followers to fly in from close by cities earlier than a recreation and return on the finish of the day.
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker informed a information convention on Thursday that United Arab Emirates (UAE) airline flydubai, Oman Air, Kuwait Airways and Saudi Arabian Airways (Saudia) would function shuttle flights and that the UAE’s Etihad and Air Arabia can also be part of the scheme.
“Flights will probably be scheduled to reach as much as 5 hours earlier than the match [in Doha],” mentioned al-Baker, sitting subsequent to heads of the opposite airways.
“After the video games, followers will as soon as once more have loads of time to journey by means of Doha earlier than boarding their flights for residence.”
The shuttle flights would alleviate logistical, lodging and policing stress on Qatar and permit neighbouring Gulf states to profit from November’s World Cup, the primary to be held within the Center East.
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“The intention is to make the fan expertise as seamless as potential, and be sure that everybody can benefit from the World Cup,” the Qatar Airways CEO mentioned on the press convention.
“I wish to thank my fellow CEOs for his or her imaginative and prescient and perseverance in making this match-day shuttle flights a actuality.”
Qatar hopes the match will appeal to roughly 1.2 million guests, or virtually half of the nation’s inhabitants.
Flydubai will function as much as 60 every day flights from Dubai, the area’s tourism hub, carrying as much as 2,500 followers, al-Baker mentioned, whereas Oman Air will run as much as 48 every day flights from Muscat carrying as much as 3,400 followers.
Kuwait Airways will run as much as 20 flights a day carrying as much as 1,700 followers.
Saudia will function as much as 60 every day flights carrying as much as 10,000 followers from Riyadh and Jeddah, mentioned CEO Ibrahim Koshy.
Video games will happen round Doha, the capital of Qatar, which is the smallest state to have hosted soccer’s greatest occasion.
Shuttle flights will permit abroad ticket holders to keep away from costly and restricted lodging in Qatar by staying in different Gulf cities.
The association may additionally enhance Qatar’s ties with its neighbours following the decision early final yr of a political dispute that had seen Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt boycott Doha for greater than three years.
Within the first spherical of ticket gross sales earlier this yr, FIFA, soccer’s world governing physique, mentioned it had acquired 17 million purposes, the outcomes of which had been introduced by means of a fortunate draw.
The World Cup takes place throughout eight stadiums in Qatar from November 21 to December 18.
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