Qatar Airways has launched flights to Amritsar

The festival of lights falls on October 17 and the inaugural flight on October 12 took passengers to the city to celebrate the annual festival.The airline is operating the route four times a week non-stop from Qatar’s capital city using a two class Airbus A320, with 12 seats in business class and 132 seats in economy.

During the next few weeks, the holiday destination of Goa will be added to the carrier’s schedule from October 25, and flights to Melbourne, Australia are due to start on December 6.These are exciting times for Qatar Airways with three route launches in less than two months, which demonstrates the robust growth we are still experiencing,” said CEO Akbar Al Baker.

Qatar Airways currently operates 60 flights a week between Doha and India daily non-stop services to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Trivandrum, Cochin and Kozhikode. The addition of Goa will take Qatar Airways’ Indian capacity up to 64 flights a week.