The airline has become a regular at the expo that attracts over 100,000 travel industry professionals and consumers, since announcing the launch of flights to Japan in 2004.
Capitalising on a bumper year filled with record aircraft orders, industry accolades and new route launches - including establishing services to North America - the airline has put together an exciting stand for the three-day exhibition aimed at promoting travel from Japan to destinations around the world through the airline's operational hub in Doha.
The 72m2 exhibition space features a Qatar Airways' business-class seating which visitors can experience. Members of Qatar Airways award-winning cabin crew have flown into Tokyo to attend the show and meet and greet visitors to the airline's stand. A Greek opera singer will perform as part of a promotion of flights to Athens via Doha.
Qatar Airways Senior Manager Far East Asia & Australasia Marwan Koleilat said Qatar Airways was proud to be a part of this exhibition, the most important travel trade show within the local Japanese market.
"Shows like JATA are an ideal opportunity to let the local travel industry and the general travelling public know about the latest developments within the airline," said Koleilat.
"We're excited to share what is proving to be yet another year of massive expansion for Qatar Airways, with a number of new routes launched and several more to come before the year is out."
The show is held annually in conjunction with the JATA World Travel Congress at the Tokyo International Exhibition Centre, locally called Tokyo Big Sight. The venue is Japan's largest exhibition and convention centre with some 230,000sqm of floor space, located on the waterfront in the Japanese capital.
Each year, JATA World Travel Fair places special emphasis on a particular destination in its themed exhibition area. This year the focus is on travel to the Middle East.
"Highlighting the Middle East at this year's expo demonstrates the importance of this region as a rapidly growing business and leisure market," Koleilat added.
Qatar Airways flies daily from Osaka to Doha, with excellent onward connections to Europe, Middle East, Africa and the United States. The airline also has a codeshare partnership with ANA on the trunk route between Doha and Osaka and beyond to Tokyo Haneda Airport, Fukuoka and Sapporo.
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Qatar Airways becomes regular fixture in Tokyo
- Qatar: Monday, September 24 - 2007 at 11:59
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Qatar Airways recently completed its fourth Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) World Travel Fair in Tokyo, Asia's largest travel trade show.
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Notes on JATA:The Japan Association of Travel Agents (JATA) World Travel Fair is widely recognised as Asia's largest and leading travel market for the travel trade and consumers. The fair attracts more than 100,000 visitors every year, including 30,000 trade and media representatives to its exhibition of more than 700 booths and stands.
Each year JATA has a themed area within the exhibition centre devoted to a particular travel destination. This year the focus is on the Middle East region.
This year's show ran from September 14-16.
Notes on Qatar Airways:
Qatar Airways, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, currently operates a modern fleet of 58 all-Airbus aircraft to 78 destinations across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Far East, Indian subcontinent and North America. The fleet size will almost double to 110 aircraft by 2015. Qatar Airways has ordered 80 Airbus A350s in a deal worth more than US$16 billion, and 22 Boeing 777s, with deliveries of the latter beginning in November 2007.
The launch of flights to New York and Washington DC has been the highlight of Qatar Airways' route expansion programme during 2007, which has already seen Dar es Salaam, Lagos, Bali, Ho Chi Minh City, Chennai and Geneva added to the carrier's burgeoning network.
New routes for the rest of 2007 are Nagpur (central India) from September 23; Stockholm starts November 27; and Ahmedabad (western India) from December 12.
Qatar Airways is one of only five airlines in the world with a Five Star ranking for service and excellence awarded by Skytrax, the independent aviation industry monitoring agency. Skytrax also named Qatar Airways' cabin crew as Best in the Middle East for the fifth year running in 2007 and Best First Class in the world following a survey of more than 12 million passengers worldwide. During the 2006/07 financial year, Qatar Airways carried more than 8 million passengers worldwide.
The airline is a launch customer of the twin-deck Airbus A380 'super jumbos' with five aircraft on order and scheduled for delivery from 2010. Qatar Airways moves to the New Doha International Airport in 2009, when the first phase of the new facility opens. For more information, visit www.ndiaproject.com
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Salam Al Shawa
Senior Manager Corporate Communications, Qatar Airways
Tel: +974 4496956, Fax: +974 4620132
Lisa George/Wendy D'Silva
ASDAA PR, Dubai, Tel: 009714 3355969
Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorMonday, September 24 - 2007 at 11:59 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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