Qatar Airways open the fresh route Doha-Kuala-Lumpur-Phuket

Mr. Marwan Koleilat, the Senior Commercial Vice President for East Asia Southwest Pacific and his staff hosted a luxurious opening festivity at the VIP room of Phuket Airport for the first flight on the Doha-Kuala Lumpur-Phuket by Qatar Airways on October 12th.

This was the initial time that a flight by Qatar Airways landed at Phuket International Airport. Qatar Airways was the 31st airline to start its flights to Phuket. The first Doha-Kuala Lumpur-Phuket flight utilizes an Airbus A330-300 carrying 45 passengers, 2 captains, and 13 aircrew from Doha, KL to Phuket and the flight took 8 hours. The Airbus contains 30 seats in business class and 275 economy class seats.

In October, there would be a flight every day not including Monday and from November 1st 2010 to January 2011, there would be 7 flights a week. The Bangkok-Doha flight would be 3 times a day throughout this time as well. Thus, there would be 28 flights from Thailand on Qatar a week. Apart from the flight to Phuket, the airline also soon commences its new routes to Hanoi, Nice, Bucharest, Budapest, and Brussels.