Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways offers Australians a one-stop service to numerous destinations across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

The airline was voted Best Business Airline of the Year at the World Travel Awards in November 2009. Its Economy Class was named Best in the World at the annual Skytrax passenger survey, in which more than 16 million travellers were polled. Ranked Five Star for service and excellence by Skytrax, the independent aviation industry monitoring agency also voted Qatar Airways' cabin crew Best in the Middle East for the seventh year running in 2009 and Best Airline in the Middle East for the fourth consecutive year.

Qatar Airways will operate a fleet of 120 aircraft by 2013 - almost double the existing size. Qatar Airways has ordered 80 Airbus A350s, 24 Airbus A320 Family of aircraft, 60 Boeing 787s and 32 Boeing 777s, with deliveries of the latter having started in November 2007. The airline has aircraft orders for more than 220 jets worth over US$40 billion and is one of the customers of the twin-deck Airbus A380 'super jumbos' with five on order and scheduled for delivery from 2012, by which time the New Doha International Airport would have opened.

For more information, visit www.qatarairways.com and www.ndiaproject.com