Qatar Airways drew major attention on the opening day of ITB Berlin 2023, the world’s largest international travel and tourism trade show, as the Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, unveiled new destinations, and announced flight resumptions and frequency increases during a press conference held on the first day of the exhibition.

At the press conference, H.E. Mr. Al Baker announced over seven new destinations planned for launch in 2023, including Chittagong, Juba, Kinshasa, Lyon, Medan, Toulouse, and Trabzon. Qatar Airways is also resuming flights to 11 destinations: Beijing, Birmingham, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Davao, Marrakesh, Nice, Osaka, Phnom Penh, Ras Al-Khaimah, and Tokyo Haneda. Multiple destinations also saw frequency increases scheduled for the year 2023.

The following destinations are slated to receive an increase in flight frequency:

● Abuja – Port Harcourt – increased from two weekly flights to three
● Abuja – Kano – increased from three weekly flights to four
● Athens – increased from seven weekly flights to 14
● Belgrade – increased from five weekly flights to seven
● Berlin – increased from 11 weekly flights to 14
● Bucharest – increased from 10 weekly flights to 14
● Cairo – increased from 21 weekly flights to 28
● Copenhagen – increased from four weekly flights to seven, and 10 from winter season 2023/24 (Finnair also operates 7 weekly flights, totalling 17 weekly in Copenhagen)
● Denpasar – increased from 14 weekly flights to 21
● Dublin – increased from 12 weekly flights to 14
● Düsseldorf – increased from seven weekly flights to 11 for winter season 2023/24
● Edinburgh– increased from 10 weekly flights to 14
● Hanoi – increased from 10 weekly flights to 12
● Hong Kong – increased from 11 weekly flights to 14
● Khartoum – increased from seven weekly flights to 14
● Larnaca – increased from seven weekly flights to 14
● London Gatwick – increased from seven weekly flights to 10 (14 weekly flights for peak summer season)
● London Heathrow – increased from 42 weekly flights to 45
● Madrid – increased from 16 weekly flights to 18
● Manila – increased from 17 weekly flights to 18
● Milan – increased from 16 weekly flights to 21
● Mogadishu – increased from three weekly flights to four
● Nagpur – increased from four weekly flights to seven
● Oslo – increased from seven weekly flights to 12 for winter season 2023/24
● Phuket – increased from 14 weekly flights to 21 for winter season 2023/24
● Saigon – increased from 10 weekly flights to 12
● Sarajevo – increased from three weekly flights to four for summer season 2023
● Sofia – increased from three weekly flights to four weekly flights in summer and five weekly flights in winter season 2023/24
● Stockholm – increased from three weekly flights to five for winter season 2023/24 (Finnair also operates 7 weekly flights, totalling 12 weekly in Stockholm)
● Taif – increased from three weekly flights to seven
● Vienna – increased from 10 weekly flights to 14
● Warsaw – increased from seven weekly flights to 14 from winter season 2023/24
● Yerevan – increased from seven weekly flights to 10
● Zagreb – increased from four weekly flights to seven
● Zurich – increased from 10 weekly flights to 14