Qatar Airways to Resume Flights to Brisbane, Australia

Qatar Airways has confirmed plans to resume flights to Brisbane, Australia, on 20 May 2020.

The thrice weekly flights will be operated with Airbus A350-1000 aircraft (pictured) offering 46 seats in Business Class and 281 seats in Economy Class.

The airline is resuming services after previously receiving short-term approval to operate to Brisbane from late-March to early April. During this period Qatar Airways helped over 5,000 stranded travellers return home and transported over 270 tonnes of cargo, including Australian agriculture exports.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said, “Qatar Airways received exceptional approval to operate short term services to Brisbane to repatriate the many tourists, students and diplomats who wanted to go back to their home countries. Our flights also provided Australians with an opportunity to come back home from various parts of the world including Europe, the Gulf and Middle East, Asia, and others. We successfully completed this task, but now there are more travelers wanting to get home. We know this is an anxious time for many stranded travellers around the world who want to be with their families and loved ones during this difficult time. With the resumption of these three-weekly flights, we are supporting critical passenger movements, and aiming to alleviate some of those anxieties.”

With the resumption of flights to Brisbane, Qatar Airways will operate 21 passenger flights per week to Australia:

· Thrice weekly flights to Brisbane (Airbus A350-1000)
· Four flights per to Perth (Airbus A350-1000)
· Daily flights to Melbourne (Airbus A350-1000)· Da· Daily flights to Sydney (Airbus A350-1000)

Qatar Airways continues to operate to 16 destinations in Europe, including London, Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam, with plans to add an additional seven European destinations by the end of June.

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