Qatar Airways have announced their plans to expand their global network in parallel with their global fleet expansion. Qatar Airways have recently introduced the next-generation of aircraft as the global launch customer of the Airbus A350 and the Middle East launch customer of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The airline recently started services to Los Angeles, Ras Al Khaimah, Sydney and Boston, and upcoming routes will commence shortly to Birmingham on 30th March, Adelaide from 2nd May, Yerevan from 15th May and Atlanta from 1st June. The airline’s latest brand campaign 'Going Places Together' focuses on bringing travellers closer together and with so many new routes its easy to see why.

New European destinations:

• The Italian city of Pisa, starting on 2nd August with daily non-stop A320-family service from Doha, will be the fourth Italian destination for Qatar Airways, joining Venice, Rome and Milan.
• Service to Sarajevo, Bosnia will start on 7th September, with three flights per week on A320-family aircraft.
• Daily non-stop flights from Doha to Helsinki, Finland will start on 10th October, offering new connections between oneworld hubs. Three times weekly service between Doha and Skopje, Macedonia in November. Both new cities will be served with A320-family aircraft.
• Qatar Airways will return to Nice, France by summer 2017, with five flights per week with wide-body aircraft.

New African destinations:

• Marrakech, Morocco will begin in July, three times per week, from Doha on the airline’s Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
• Four flights per week between Doha and Windhoek, Namibia will begin on 28th September.
• Daily scheduled service to the Seychelles will resume on 12th December.
• In January, Qatar Airways will offer three flights per week from Doha to Douala, Cameroon and Libreville, Gabon utilising one aircraft. Non-stop service, three times weekly from Doha to Lusaka, Zambia will begin by summer 2017.

New South West Pacific and Southeast Asian destinations:

• Daily service to Auckland – Qatar Airways’ first route to New Zealand, and what will be the world’s longest flight – will begin on 3rd December. Qatar Airways will use the Boeing 777 aircraft for this route.
• Just in time for the winter break Qatar Airways will begin four flights per week to Krabi, Thailand on 6th December and three flights per week to Chiang Mai, Thailand also in December, enhancing overall connectivity to Thailand through four gateways. Qatar Airways currently flies to Bangkok and Phuket.