by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQatar Airways, Emirates and Turkish Airlines all run connecting hubs, but they are three different businesses. Emirates is an all-widebody scale machine. Turkish is a mixed-fleet network maximiser with a huge domestic base and unmatched destination count....
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRIn June 2017 Qatar lost its land border, most of its regional airspace and its main transshipment route through Jebel Ali simultaneously. Within weeks it had established direct shipping services to Oman, Turkey and India, activated a new deep-water port,...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQatar Airways Cargo is among the largest international air freight carriers in the world and has repeatedly been the profit engine that carried the group through weak passenger cycles. The business combines dedicated freighters with belly-hold capacity on...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRHamad International Airport opened in 2014 on reclaimed land and was designed around one requirement: moving transfer passengers between aircraft quickly and pleasantly. Everything from terminal geometry to retail placement follows from that. It has been...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 25, 2026 | Qatar Aviation & Logistics, Qatar Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRQatar Airways is a state-owned carrier serving a country of under three million people that flies to more than 170 destinations. The business model does not depend on Qatari passengers at all: it depends on connecting traffic between continents through a...
