Qatar Airways has wrapped up a successful India-wide roadshow promoting its new daily flights to Houston due to launch today. “The week-long press conferences, attended by over 250 media groups, kicked off in Kochi in India’s Kerala state and moved onto Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi, before winding its way to the country’s financial centre of Mumbai,” an airline spokesman said.
“The new Houston services will offer Qatar Airways passengers from across India one of the quickest and most convenient journeys to America’s energy centre and beyond. Bridging Doha and Houston with direct flights, Qatar Airways will open up the first air corridor between the world’s energy capitals.”
Qatar Airways currently operates 58 flights a week from nine cities in India with early morning flight to Doha and convenient onward daily connections to Houston, as well as the airline’s two other highly popular US gateway cities of New York and Washington.
The airline’s Indian network, comprising daily services from Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad and Kozhikode, together with twice-weekly services from Nagpur, is one of the most comprehensive of any international carrier serving the country.
At just under 17 hours flying time, the new daily non-stop services between the airline’s Doha hub and Houston will be Qatar Airways’ longest route and one of the longest non-stop flights in the world operating with new state-of-the-art Boeing 777-200 long range aircraft. Addressing press conferences across India, Qatar Airways Regional Manager India, Naveen Chawla, said: “Qatar Airways’ India operations are among the most successful in our international network, having virtually doubled capacity between India and Qatar over the past four years. He said Qatar Airways offered customers the highest standards of service.
“We offer the travelling public with unrivalled levels of space and comfort, giving us an edge over our competitors in the Middle East and worldwide.” He said Houston and neighbouring cities have more than 250,000 people of Indian origin living and working in a variety of industries, including medicine, engineering, law and business. The Indian community will now have much improved air access between India and southern USA with the launch of the new flights,” Chawla said.