Qatar Airways plans to seek compensation from Boeing over the grounding of three...
ST PETERSBURG - Qatar Airways plans to seek compensation from Boeing over the grounding of three 737 MAX aircraft by Italian airline Air Italy, where the Qatari company is a major shareholder, group chief executive Akbar al-Baker told Reuters.
“At Qatar Airways we do not operate any MAX airplanes – it affected our investment into Air Italy. Air Italy has three MAX operated in its fleet and they were grounded so it affected us – we had to take extra routing from outside,” al-Baker said. In Russia, Qatar Airways is in talks to buy a 20% stake in Vnukovo airport, Moscow’s third largest by passenger traffic.Last year, Vnukovo’s handled around 21 million passengers, compared with 29 million at Domodedovo and almost 46 million at Sheremetyevo, Russia’s biggest airport and one of the busiest in Europe.
Asked if Qatar Airways could consider acquiring a stake in Sheremetyevo, 30% of which may be on offer by the airport’s private shareholders, Al-Baker said: “We cannot do more than one airport at the same place.”
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