Qatar Airways has launched scheduled B777-200ER flights to the Western Australian city of Perth, officially marking the start of thrice-weekly services to the country’s mining and exploration hub from Doha.
Perth becomes Qatar Airways’ second gateway in Australia after Melbourne – and the carrier’s 117th destination worldwide.
Since the beginning of the year, Qatar Airways has launched services to Baku (Azerbaijan); Tbilisi (Georgia); Zagreb (Croatia), Kigali (Rwanda), Erbil (Iraq) and Baghdad (Iraq), with more new destinations planned during 2012.
Over the next few months, the carrier will launch services to Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (July 25); Mombasa, Kenya (August 15); Yangon, Myanmar (Oct 3); Maputo, Mozambique (October 31) and a date yet-to-be-announced to the Serbian capital Belgrade.
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