{"id":34915,"date":"2005-11-17T23:15:59","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/2005\/11\/17\/qatar-airways-plans-hong-kong-flights-nex-year\/"},"modified":"2005-11-17T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T15:15:59","slug":"qatar-airways-plans-hong-kong-flights-nex-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/2005\/11\/17\/34915\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Airways Plans Hong Kong Flights Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"43\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/images\/qatarairways_logo.gif\" width=\"115\" align=\"right\">Qatar Airways has announced plans to launch scheduled flights to Hong Kong in the beginning of the Summer 2006 season.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The daily flights will operate non-stop from March 26 next year.<\/p>\n<p>In the year that Qatar celebrates being host country of the 15th Asian Games in Doha in December 2006, Qatar Airways is targeting Asia as a growth area for new routes and increased capacity on existing services. Qatar Airways is also the official airline of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the new Hong Kong route during a press conference at World Travel Market in London, Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said the special administrative region of China was a buoyant market that appealed strongly to both leisure and business travellers.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong is a key financial, business and leisure centre which is a must for any airline to serve &#8211; and Qatar Airways is no exception. We are delighted to put Hong Kong on our global map from March next year and pleased to announce that it will be our first Asian service to feature our brand new in-flight service, the CEO, added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways has announced plans to launch scheduled flights to Hong Kong in the beginning of the Summer 2006 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinahospitalitynews.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}