Qatar Airways will restructure its flight schedule temporarily to handle a surge in passenger traffic expected during the Fifa World Cup in Doha later this year.
The airline will restructure flight arrival and departure schedules to deal with the “huge rush” of travellers it anticipates during the football tournament, group chief executive Akbar Al Baker said in Doha on Tuesday.
“We have to withdraw from many destinations in order to relieve capacity and make room for others [airlines] also to come to Doha and utilise the slots, which otherwise would be nearly impossible to sustain, and this would happen during just the 30-day period,” he said during a closing press conference at the annual meeting of the International Air…