The commitment of Qatar Airways to the US market has not wavered throughout the crisis. While other airlines from the Gulf stopped operating, Qatar Airways has continued to work closely with the US government and airports to take more than 160,000 stranded people home from Australasia, Africa, India and the Middle East.
The national carrier of the State of Qatar is proud to further reaffirm its commitment to the US with the resumption of flights to New York (JFK) from 19 June (rising to 10 weekly from 2 July) and to Boston, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles from 1 July. This will see the airline’s US network rebuild to 39 weekly flights by mid-July 2020.
With strong existing partnerships with American Airlines and JetBlue in place, restarting these flights brings even greater benefits to Qatar Airways passengers.
Existing services to Dallas-Forth Worth and Chicago currently enable passengers to book onward travel with American Airlines to almost 180 destinations on more than 350 domestic flights per day. This will increase to more than 600 daily flights with the addition of services to Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles.
Qatar Airways’ New York flights and five-weekly Boston flights will also facilitate the resumption of the JetBlue codeshare. Passengers will immediately be able to book travel across the entire JetBlue network on 70 flights per day to 46 destinations.
Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, HE Akbar Al Baker, said that since the pandemic outbreak, they have been completely focused at fulfilling their mission to bring people home.
He said that they are working closely with governments around the world to ensure that stranded citizens could travel home safely. Their repatriation efforts were widely recognised and applauded.
The United States is historically a hugely significant strategic market for our airline and at the end of April, US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo personally expressed his appreciation of Qatar Airways’ continued assistance and the tremendous efforts extended by the airline to repatriate tens of thousands of Americans.
With the relaunch of these additional destinations, which brings the total to six, Qatar Airways is clearly demonstrating their strong commitment to the US market. All six destinations will be served with a minimum of five weekly flights from mid-July, with 10 weekly flights operating to JFK.
US destinations available for booking:
Boston (From 1 July, five weekly flights increasing to daily from 1 Aug)
- Doha (DOH) to Boston (BOS) QR743 Departs: 8 am / Arrives 2:15 pm
- Boston (BOS) to Doha (DOH) QR744 Departs: 10 pm / Arrives 4:55 pm
Chicago (Daily flights)
- Doha (DOH) to Chicago (ORD) QR725 Departs: 7:45 am / Arrives 1:45 pm
- Chicago (ORD) to Doha (DOH) QR726 Departs: 6:50 pm / Arrives 4:20 pm
Dallas-Fort Worth (Five weekly flights increasing to daily from 23 June)
- Doha (DOH) to Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) QR729 Departs: 7:50 am / Arrives 3:30 pm
- Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Doha (DOH) QR730 Departs: 6:10 pm / Arrives 4:40 pm
New York (From 19 June, Friday only; daily from 22 June and 10 weekly from 2 July)
- Doha (DOH) to New York (JFK) QR701 Departs: 8:15 am / Arrives 3 pm
- New York (JFK) to Doha (DOH) QR702 Departs: 7 pm / Arrives 4:15 pm
Los Angeles (From 1 July, three weekly flights increasing to five weekly from 17 July and six weekly from 1 Aug)
- Doha (DOH) to Los Angeles (LAX) QR739 Departs: 7:35 am / Arrives 1:35 pm
- Los Angeles (LAX) to Doha (DOH) QR740 Departs: 3:35 pm / Arrives 5:05 pm
Washington, DC (From 1 July, five weekly flights increasing to daily from 1 Aug)
- Doha (DOH) to Washington (IAD) QR707 Departs: 8:40 am / Arrives 3:35 pm
- Washington (IAD) to Doha (DOH) QR708 Departs: 8:25 pm / Arrives 3:55 pm
Hamad International Airport is implementing stringent cleaning procedures and has applied social distancing measures throughout their terminals. All passenger touchpoints are sanitised every 10-15 minutes and every boarding gate and bus gate counter is cleaned after each flight. Hand sanitisers are also provided at immigration and security screening points.
For updates and more information about their flight services, visit qatarairways.com.