The Doha-based Qatar airlines has completed a codeshare partnership deal with South Africa’s Airlink in a bid to expand operations and enhance growth.
According to Qatar Airways, the new agreement will provide passengers traveling on the two carriers with more choices, enhanced services, and greater connectivity between the city pairs now linked through the codeshare arrangement.
This is a strategic move aimed at enhancing the carrier’s passengers’ onward connection possibilities through its three gateways across southern Africa. The new agreement marks the next stage in Qatar’s development.
Allowing passengers to connect seamlessly between 45 destinations in 13 countries across southern Africa and the rest of the world, this new deal is likely to be a win-win for both airlines involved and passengers alike.
Flights operated by Airlink from Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban will carry the ‘QR’ flight code of the larger carrier. All passengers traveling under the codeshare scheme will be afforded the simplicity of purchasing connecting flights on both airlines using a single reservation with seamless ticketing, check-in, boarding, and baggage check experience across their entire journey.https://a9ba90c50ff81137f34f34ba146d371d.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
Qatar Airways currently offers 21 direct weekly flights from Doha to Johannesburg, ten weekly flights to Cape Town, and four weekly flights to Durban. From South Africa, travelers traveling under the new codeshare agreement with Airlink can connect easily to destinations across six continents via Doha’s Hamad International Airport, recently voted by Skytrax as the ‘World’s Best Airport.’
The Qatari-based carrier predicts that popular destinations linked under the new agreement will include connections between the three cities in South Africa with popular destinations in the United States served by Qatar Airways such as New York and Dallas, cities in Europe such as London, Copenhagen, and Barcelona, and points across Asia including Manila, Jakarta, and Cebu.
The agreement with Airlink also enhances Qatar Airways’ footprint across southern Africa, with improved access to destinations such as Ggeberha (Port Elizabeth), Hoedspruit, Skukuza, George in South Africa, and beyond to countries such as Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The new codeshare flights are already on sale, with codeshare services commencing on July 6th, 2022, subject to government approval.
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