Qatar Airways Team has obtained a 25 percent stake in Southern Africa’s premier self sustaining regional service, Airlink. The announcement is a continuation of the multi award-a success airline’s ambition to additional produce its operations all the procedure by the African continent.
The funding in Airlink – which flies to larger than 45 locations in 15 African countries – will enhance a code-sharing partnership between the 2 airways. The deal will bolster Qatar Airways’ Africa enhance device and cement its role as a key driver to the continent’s financial success.
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On the announcement, Qatar Airways Team Chief Government Officer, Badr Mohammed Al-Meer, stated: “Our funding in Airlink additional demonstrates how integral we be conscious Africa being to our industry’ future. This partnership no longer most effective demonstrates our self perception in Airlink, as an organization that is resilient, agile, financially sturdy and ruled on sound guidelines, however also in Africa as a total, showing large doable that I’m contented we are in a situation to attend initiating realising.”
Airlink Chief Government, Rodger Foster, stated: “Having Qatar Airways as an equity accomplice is an spectacular endorsement of Airlink and echoes our faith in the markets we currently encourage and understanding so that you simply would possibly well per chance add to our community. This transaction will free up enhance by offering efficiencies of scale, increasing our skill and extending our advertising and marketing reach. By bolstering Airlink and its industry, this funding will enhance the total contemporary airline partnerships Airlink has nurtured through the years.”
Qatar Airways currently flies to 29 locations in Africa, and there’s been sturdy enhance on the market with contemporary locations added to the Qatar Airways community on the continent since December 2020.
Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Harare, Kano, Luanda, Lusaka, and Port Harcourt are the African cities newly added to the in depth Qatar Airways community, while Cairo and Alexandria had been resumed.
