British Airways to Use Qatar Airways to Serve Pakistan

[Abbas Ali]

BA to serve destinations beyond Doha using Qatar Airways

Published: 07/04/2014

Qatar Airways' membership of Oneworld is at last yielding fruit.

Effective immediately, fellow alliance member British Airways will begin using Qatar Airways to serve destinations that it cannot economically serve itself.

At the same time, Qatar Airways will take advantage of BA's domestic and short-haul European network to cover cities which it has no immediate plans to serve directly from Doha.

What BA and Qatar Airways are doing is similar in scope to what Oneworld member Cathay Pacific and Qatar Airways are offering over Doha.

Details have just emerged on airlineroute.net that BA will from tomorrow offer flights via Doha to destinations in East Africa, Pakistan and Bangladesh using Qatar Airways beyond the Gulf.

Qatar Airways flights will codeshare on BA flights out of Heathrow to UK domestic cities, with the exception of Edinburgh which will be served non-stop from Doha in May, along with Amsterdam and Hamburg. Others may follow.

Flights can be booked on the respective airline websites.

ba.com, qatarairways.com

Alex McWhirter

Source: businesstraveller.com

[Abbas Ali]

In partnership with FlyBe, Etihad Airways through its hub in Abu Dhabi is offering similar facility to passengers travelling between Pakistan and United Kingdom.

Details in following ad that appeared in Pakistani newspapers in recent weeks.



Abbas

[raihans]

if the connection times are minimum then one travelling with family can benefit from, otherwise its a total waste of time to travel to DOH in 3~4 hours + connection time at DOH and then fly onward to UK, the journey will be more than 10 hours and going directly most probably it is around 7~8 hours

in my opinion, good for those who want to enjoy their travel, inflight, etc.

[Abbas Ali]

These airlines may manage to attract passengers by offering low fares combined with quality service, punctuality and more flights frequencies.

Abbas

[needroos]

This will be good though since QR joined OW, you were able to book through BA.com as an alliance member, so this is not new. As for QR, until the long delayed Hammad International Airport doesnt open, the current terminal at DOH is a mess. Rumour now is that it will open for limited operations on the 20th of April and QR will move there in June. Lets see.

[Imran]

I had a quick look at the schedules on the BA website and I am not impressed. Example London to Islamabad below:

Outbound - Thursday 15 May 2014 Connection time nearly 24 hours in Doha
Inbound - Wednesday 21 May 2014 Connection time of 18 hours in Doha

Similar applies to Lahore. Not Wonderful yet!

[saadm80]

Don't go on the Rumors of HIA being operational on the 20th, Bcz it's not gonna happen for at least another 6months or soo, regarding the fact BA Gonna Code Share with QR for its operations from Pakistan, is a Good News for the Families Travelling but not soo Good news for the Staff Travelling, but non the less lets see how does this Code Share works out..

[mac777]

does it mean u need to fly 3 sectors if u book BA for a city beyond london?