Qatar Airways new Seattle route won’t just be targeting India traffic
Qatar Airways new Seattle service begins at four-weekly and will gradually increase to once-daily by the end of June.
Qatar Airways will begin Doha – Seattle on 15 March on a four-weekly basis using 283-seat A350-900s. It’ll later rise to five-weekly and, from the end of June, operate once-daily.
Seattle will be Qatar Airways’ 14
th destination in North America, joining San Francisco which begins on 15 December. The carrier started Los Angeles in 2016, so its West Coast presence will treble.
Alongside connecting traffic to/from Seattle, Alaska joining oneworld – and the feed available to Qatar Airways as a result – pushed its decision to begin Seattle. It’ll join fellow MEB3 operator Emirates, which began Seattle in 2012 and which in 2014 had a twice-daily offering.