Royal Air Maroc Relaunches Doha Flights As Qatar Seeks To Grow to be A oneworld Hub

Royal Air Maroc, the most recent member of the oneworld Alliance, has revealed plans to renew flights to Doha. Such flights have been suspended since March 2020 because of the pandemic, which means that that is the primary time the Moroccan airline will fly to the Center Japanese hub as a member of the oneworld Alliance.

It’s not unusual for airways inside an alliance to attach their routes and work collectively to serve passengers with codeshare agreements finest. After all, to make this work, there must be at the least one connection between two carriers of the identical alliance.

Royal Air Maroc returns to Doha

Moroccan flag provider Royal Air Maroc has revealed that it’s going to relaunch flights to Doha on Monday, September twelfth, following a two-and-a-half-year absence on the route. Royal Air Maroc will naturally use the Boeing 787, its solely widebody plane, on this route. The airline has particularly chosen the -9 for this flight, carrying 302 passengers with 26 enterprise class seats.

From Monday onwards, Royal Air Maroc will service the route each day with the next schedule,

Royal Air Maroc will fly to Doha with the Boeing 787-9. Photograph: Vincenzo Tempo – Easy Flying

A oneworld hub

Doha’s Hamad Worldwide Airport is slowly turning into a oneworld hub, one thing which the Qatar Airways Group CEO, Akbar Al Baker, is eager to see developed. Commenting on the relaunch of providers, Al Baker remarked,

“We’re delighted to increase our cooperation with the resumption of flights to Doha from our accomplice Royal Air Maroc, a oneworld member… Doha is firmly positioned as a premier oneworld hub bringing collectively extra accomplice airways than ever earlier than, enabling passengers to get pleasure from world connectivity to greater than 150 locations on Qatar Airways’ world community.”

Royal Air Maroc is the second airline in as many weeks to disclose that it might be (re)launching flights to Doha Airport. At first of final week, Finnair introduced that it might be launching each day flights to the Center Japanese hub from Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Stockholm because it seeks to extend its partnership with Qatar Airways. Whereas Finnair is ready till November-December to launch these routes, Royal Air Maroc will return to Doha subsequent week. This transfer will permit it to attach African soccer groups and followers to this yr’s World Cup set to happen from November twentieth to December 18th.

All non-Qatar Airways 
one
world routes to Doha. Photograph:
Cirium

Eight out of 13 oneworld airways

World cup apart, eight out of the 13 present oneworld members will fly to Doha in January 2023, in line with schedule information from Cirium,

The oneworld member airways not set to fly to Doha subsequent January are Alaska Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airways, and Qantas. Although not but formally a part of the alliance, Oman Air is subsequent in line to affix, with the airline planning three providers a day to Doha in January. S7 Airways, at present suspended from the alliance, doesn’t fly to Doha.

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