QATAR AIRWAYS PARTNERS WITH BRITISH COUNCIL

Participates as the official airline at the pre-departure session organized by British Council’s Education Council

Qatar Airways has partnered with British Council, United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, as the official airline partner for the pre-departure session for students who have applied to universities in the UK. 

The Education division of the British Council will be organizing pre-departure sessions for students across 9 key cities in India in association with Qatar Airways. Over 2000 students are expected to attend the orientation meeting where they will get an opportunity to interact with the experts from British Council for an in-depth understanding on the education system in the UK.   

Commenting on the partnership, Qatar Airways Vice President Indian sub-continent, Ihab Sorialsaid, “We are honoured to partner with British Council’s Education Council in an initiative to support Indian student’s education and career in the UK. Qatar Airways has seen a remarkable response from India travellers on its rapidly expanding UK network. We witness a mix of leisure and business travellers on the UK routes, with London drawing the maximum traffic. As a member of the oneworld alliance, we also have an expansive network to seamlessly connect more passengers to the UK.”    

Qatar Airways operates from 12 cities in India, with 95 passenger flights a week connecting to 3 central destinations in the United Kingdom – Edinburgh, London, and Manchester. Qatar Airways operates 5 flights Daily from Doha to London, with the latest range of luxurious fleets, namely Air Bus 380, Boeing 777 and 787.

The Indian network covers daily passenger flights to Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Goa, Hyderabad, Kozhikode, Trivandrum, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru (Bangalore), with 11-flights-a-week to Cochin and double daily to the capital, New Delhi.

One of the fastest growing airlines in the world, Qatar Airways has experienced rapid growth in just 18 years of operation. Today it flies a modern fleet of 157 aircraft to 146 key business and leisure destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America. 

Notes to Editors:

About Qatar Airways:

Qatar Airways celebrated its one year anniversary, in October 2014, of joining the oneworld global alliance. Qatar Airways was the first Gulf carrier to join this global airline alliance, enabling its passengers to benefit from almost 1,000 airports in more than 150 countries, with 14,250 daily departures. The award-winning oneworld alliance was named the World’s Best Airline Alliance 2014 by Skytrax for the second year running.

At the Farnborough Air Show, the airline placed an order for 100 Boeing 777X aircraft, taking Qatar Airways’ orders to more than 340 aircraft with a value of US $70 billion.

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