Company Insights Qatar Airways Aviation Qatar Airways News Video length: 03:07 Analysis Aviation How the battle for the Gulf’s skies has intensified Across and around the Arabian Gulf regional airlines find themselves returning to a very different and increasingly volatile market after the pandemic. Pre-Covid, aviation in the Gulf and many neighbouring nations was largely defined and dominated by Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad. Now, as the Big Three pursue resurgence, they are being increasingly challenged, not […] May 8, 2023 Video length: 02:33 VIDEO Aviation Clark: Sustainable fuel on long haul flights is miles off Long-haul flights using anything but fossil fuels are currently impossible, according to Tim Clark, the president of Emirates Airline. “You will not fly an A380 to Los Angeles with 500 passengers on board, burning 200 tons of fuel, on anything other than fossil fuels for the time being. It won’t happen,” Sir Tim Clark told […] May 4, 2023 Video length: 02:33 Aviation Saudi tenders for new low-cost carrier in Dammam Saudi Arabia has issued a public tender for another airline to operate in the kingdom. Two new airlines have already been announced in the country this year – Riyadh Air and Neom Airlines. And the General Authority of Civil Aviation is looking to introduce one more. The tender invites investors “wishing to obtain a national […] May 3, 2023 Video length: 02:33 Aviation Qatar Airways CEO plays down threat of competition The CEO of Qatar Airways has said he is “very excited” by the growth of Saudi Arabia’s aviation industry, despite the prospect of tougher competition as regional airline capacity increases. “We will co-operate with them, we will support them, because we feel that relationships matter and there is a lot of business to go around […] May 2, 2023 Analysis Tourism Gulf hospitality market banks on hotel-building surge Following the chaos of Covid and a surge in visitors for the Fifa World Cup and Expo 2022, the Gulf hospitality market might have been expected to return to a period of relative normality. But major tourism investment drives are afoot as GCC states seek to further diversify their economies. Almost 170,000 hotel rooms are […] April 30, 2023 Opinion Aviation The aviation sector is due for a cull The regional airline market is saturated. It's time for consolidation and a strategic rethink April 25, 2023 Tourism Qatar relaunches World Cup visa platform for tourism Qatar has relaunched the visa platform it used to welcome 1.4 million football fans during last year’s Fifa World Cup with a broader tourism remit, as it seeks to attract over six million visitors a year by 2030. The new-look Hayya platform will become the single portal for all tourist and business visas to the […] April 17, 2023 Aviation Qatar Airways CEO calls for aviation fuel overhaul The boss of Qatar Airways has called for an overhaul of the sustainable aviation fuel market. The airline is buying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it seeks to reduce the environmental impact of air travel. However CEO Akbar Al Baker has labelled the fuel “exorbitantly expensive” and says it is only available in low volumes […] April 11, 2023 Opinion Aviation Low-cost, not full-price, airlines will fuel the Gulf’s aviation boom The Middle East's aviation industry is ripe for the picking March 29, 2023 Aviation Nigeria says most funds repatriated to Dubai’s Emirates Emirates has got most of its funds out of Nigeria and has around $35 million that still needs to be released, aviation minister Hadi Sirika said. President Muhammadu Buhari in February directed the central bank to increase the amount of foreign currency allocated to Emirates after the airline suspended flights to and from Nigeria because it […] March 24, 2023 Posts navigation Previous 1 … 10 11 12 … 15 Next
Video length: 03:07 Analysis Aviation How the battle for the Gulf’s skies has intensified Across and around the Arabian Gulf regional airlines find themselves returning to a very different and increasingly volatile market after the pandemic. Pre-Covid, aviation in the Gulf and many neighbouring nations was largely defined and dominated by Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad. Now, as the Big Three pursue resurgence, they are being increasingly challenged, not […] May 8, 2023
Video length: 02:33 VIDEO Aviation Clark: Sustainable fuel on long haul flights is miles off Long-haul flights using anything but fossil fuels are currently impossible, according to Tim Clark, the president of Emirates Airline. “You will not fly an A380 to Los Angeles with 500 passengers on board, burning 200 tons of fuel, on anything other than fossil fuels for the time being. It won’t happen,” Sir Tim Clark told […] May 4, 2023
Video length: 02:33 Aviation Saudi tenders for new low-cost carrier in Dammam Saudi Arabia has issued a public tender for another airline to operate in the kingdom. Two new airlines have already been announced in the country this year – Riyadh Air and Neom Airlines. And the General Authority of Civil Aviation is looking to introduce one more. The tender invites investors “wishing to obtain a national […] May 3, 2023
Video length: 02:33 Aviation Qatar Airways CEO plays down threat of competition The CEO of Qatar Airways has said he is “very excited” by the growth of Saudi Arabia’s aviation industry, despite the prospect of tougher competition as regional airline capacity increases. “We will co-operate with them, we will support them, because we feel that relationships matter and there is a lot of business to go around […] May 2, 2023
Analysis Tourism Gulf hospitality market banks on hotel-building surge Following the chaos of Covid and a surge in visitors for the Fifa World Cup and Expo 2022, the Gulf hospitality market might have been expected to return to a period of relative normality. But major tourism investment drives are afoot as GCC states seek to further diversify their economies. Almost 170,000 hotel rooms are […] April 30, 2023
Opinion Aviation The aviation sector is due for a cull The regional airline market is saturated. It's time for consolidation and a strategic rethink April 25, 2023
Tourism Qatar relaunches World Cup visa platform for tourism Qatar has relaunched the visa platform it used to welcome 1.4 million football fans during last year’s Fifa World Cup with a broader tourism remit, as it seeks to attract over six million visitors a year by 2030. The new-look Hayya platform will become the single portal for all tourist and business visas to the […] April 17, 2023
Aviation Qatar Airways CEO calls for aviation fuel overhaul The boss of Qatar Airways has called for an overhaul of the sustainable aviation fuel market. The airline is buying sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it seeks to reduce the environmental impact of air travel. However CEO Akbar Al Baker has labelled the fuel “exorbitantly expensive” and says it is only available in low volumes […] April 11, 2023
Opinion Aviation Low-cost, not full-price, airlines will fuel the Gulf’s aviation boom The Middle East's aviation industry is ripe for the picking March 29, 2023
Aviation Nigeria says most funds repatriated to Dubai’s Emirates Emirates has got most of its funds out of Nigeria and has around $35 million that still needs to be released, aviation minister Hadi Sirika said. President Muhammadu Buhari in February directed the central bank to increase the amount of foreign currency allocated to Emirates after the airline suspended flights to and from Nigeria because it […] March 24, 2023
