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Qatar Airways to France: Introduction

Qatar Airways A350-1000 A7-ANA

What’s more exciting than being present for a delivery flight? The opportunity to try out a new cabin product on the way to the delivery flight should come close. On this trip, I head to Toulouse to participate in the gala organised by Airbus as they delivered the first ever A350-1000 to a customer, Qatar Airways in this case.

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Jet Airways strengthens codeshare with Air France, offers double miles on AF flights too

Strange is the aviation industry, where competitors become bedfellows. Jet Airways last week launched its own flights between Mumbai and Paris, which will be 4 times weekly right now and go to daily frequency in July. Jet has been very careful to operate a daytime flight here, because Air France already operates a daily departure from Mumbai in the evening slot. Initially, it looked like Jet Airways was only going to go after the O&D traffic because they did not have connections at the other end. Now, early this month, Jet Airways and Air France got their codeshare together, and both the carriers will place their codes on the other’s Mumbai-Paris-Mumbai flights with effect from May 25, 2014. This offers…

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