Cardiff: Qatar Airways, will it return?

[Jerry]

Not clear if the team are flying from CWL

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I'd be surprised if it was from Cardiff, i'd expect it would be from Heathrow. Though it would be nice if it was from Cardiff.

 

[Pontyboy]

You’d think for Wales PLC purposes that the FAW / WAG would be heavily in favour of flying out of CWL. Especially when Qatar could make a return in the future.

 

[Jerry]

You’d think for Wales PLC purposes that the FAW / WAG would be heavily in favour of flying out of CWL. Especially when Qatar could make a return in the future.

That would require a special charter rather than just use a scheduled flight at Heathrow. The FAW have been stressing the importance in exposure for Wales as a country that the tournament will bring. Flying from Heathrow could devalue that a little bit rather than flying directly from Wales.

 

[Jerry]

You’d think for Wales PLC purposes that the FAW / WAG would be heavily in favour of flying out of CWL. Especially when Qatar could make a return in the future.

It looks like they will be. Qatar Airways too Doha is scheduled for a 1500 departure on the 15/11/22 and I've been told that they will be doing the bulk of the fan charters as well.

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The departure on the 15th is the team. I've been told that there will be fan charters the day before each game. The USA game is on the 21st, the Iran game is on the 25th and the England game is on the 29th November.

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According to a post on Facebook the team will depart on a Qatar Airways A350 and other charters will be conducted by 787s and A350s and there will be a total of 14 flights.

 

[Chris Gronow]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1590016502664925191

 

[Jerry]

The Wales team departing Cardiff on a Qatar Airways A350 900 for the Football World Cup! The team was also given a water canon salute before departure.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1592563247336640513

 

[Cardiffbay]

Does anybody know if tonight’s flights are bringing fans home or taking more out? Incidentally due to the one aircraft being late 2 Qatar 787’s will be on the ground together.

 

[Chris Gronow]

Bringing them home I think, if you look at the packages in the link below you can see there were 1 game packages available.

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[geoff]

The flights are not shown on the departures board, so they must be returning to Qatar empty.

 

[Jerry]

Pretty sure they're just bringing them home. Next game is Friday so i imagine the flights will depart on Thursday.

 

[geoff]

Both QR flights left CWL empty last night.

 

[geoff]

A report in Simply flying states that Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached an amicable agreement out of Court and all proceedings will not now take place. In a joint statement, the two companies intend to work together in future. I wonder Qatar will order the A321's which were previously cancelled and were intended for use on the CWL route, we'll have to wait and see. A lot of posts on the BHX forum, suggest that BHX may be resuming Qatar flights later this year, perhaps they may look at CWL whose passenger figures weren't far behind those of BHX.

 

[Jerry]

I wonder Qatar will order the A321's which were previously cancelled and were intended for use on the CWL route,

Were they intended for CWL? I think Qatar resuming in the next few years may be optimistic but it would be a boost for the airport if they did especially for Cardiff's air cargo operation.

 

[geoff]

It was mentioned somewhere when the 321's were cancelled, but not by one of usual contributors on this forum.

 

[Jerry]

It was mentioned somewhere when the 321's were cancelled, but not by one of usual contributors on this forum.

I think the problem with an A321 for a route like Cardiff is that it would be seen as a downgrade compared to other routes with wide bodies and it has less cargo capacity which would be a key thing for the airport.

 

[David_itl]

All the A350s and A321s are back on the order book, with the hefty penalty for QR being that instead of deliveries this year for the A321s, it's going to be 2026 before they start arriving

 

[IanFarquharson]

Qatar are not restarting CWL, they have now released details of re-instated routes BHX restarts 10 July not no CWL.

 

[gulftraveller]

There was never any plan to restart CWL. Yields were too poor. BHX was not a great performer for QTR either so let’s hope it does better this time.

 

[Jerry]

There was never any plan to restart CWL. Yields were too poor. BHX was not a great performer for QTR either so let’s hope it does better this time.

I'm curious, how do you know about the yields.

Qatar are not restarting CWL, they have now released details of re-instated routes BHX restarts 10 July not no CWL.

Is there a source for that?

It does look like if CWL is too see the return of Qatar Airways it probably won't be until 2024 at the earliest.

 

[LBAYORKIE]

I'm curious, how do you know about the yields.

Is there a source for that?

It does look like if CWL is too see the return of Qatar Airways it probably won't be until 2024 at the earliest.

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