LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WELCOMES QATAR AIRWAYS TO LOS ANGELESWITH LAUNCH OF DAILY FLIGHTS TO DOHA, QATAR
(Los Angeles, California – May 4, 2015) Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will welcome Qatar Airways to Los Angeles with the launch of daily flights between Los Angeles and Doha, Qatar , on January 1, 2016 , with the airline’s flagship Boeing 777 aircraft featuring a two-class cabin with 42 Business Class fully lie-flat seats in a 2-2-2 configuration.
“We are honored Qatar Airways chose LAX as its U.S. West Coast debut for this new, historic service ,” said Los Angeles World Airports Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey. “This is the type of quality air service we want to keep attracting to LAX.”
“We look forward to offering a great travel experience to our U.S. passengers on the World’s Best Business Class across our network of more than 140 destinations, with a convenient one-stop transfer at the new state-of-the-art Hamad International Airport in Doha,” said Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker.
Qatar Airways will operate at the new Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) , where passengers will experience a world-class terminal featuring premierdining with local flavors , a wide variety of specialty and duty-free retail shopping, work stations and boarding gate seating with electrical outlets, entertaining Interactive Integrated Environmental Media Systems, stream-lined arrivals process, bright and modern design, and more.
Qatar Airways is renowned for its on-board experience and commitment to service quality – ranking two years straight as Best in Business Class and also being named the World’s Best Airline in 2011 and 2012 at the Skytrax World Airline Awards.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States. LAX offers 692 daily nonstop flights to 85 cities in the U.S. and 928 weekly nonstop flights to 67 cities in 34 countries on 64 commercial air carriers. LAX ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over 1.9 million tons of air cargo valued at over $86.9 billion. An economic study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Alternative formats in large print, braille, audio, and other forms (if possible) will be provided upon request.
About Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways celebrated its one year anniversary, in October 2014, of joining theoneworld global alliance. Qatar Airways was the first Gulf carrier to join this global airline alliance, enabling its passengers to benefit from almost 1,000 airports in more than 150 countries, with 14,250 daily departures. The award-winning oneworld alliance was named the World’s Best Airline Alliance 2014 by Skytrax for the second year running. For more information about Qatar Airways, please visit: www.qatarairways.com
LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WELCOMES QATAR AIRWAYS TO LOS ANGELESWITH LAUNCH OF DAILY FLIGHTS TO DOHA, QATAR
(Los Angeles, California – May 4, 2015) Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) will welcome Qatar Airways to Los Angeles with the launch of daily flights between Los Angeles and Doha, Qatar , on January 1, 2016 , with the airline’s flagship Boeing 777 aircraft featuring a two-class cabin with 42 Business Class fully lie-flat seats in a 2-2-2 configuration.
“We are honored Qatar Airways chose LAX as its U.S. West Coast debut for this new, historic service ,” said Los Angeles World Airports Executive Director Gina Marie Lindsey. “This is the type of quality air service we want to keep attracting to LAX.”
“We look forward to offering a great travel experience to our U.S. passengers on the World’s Best Business Class across our network of more than 140 destinations, with a convenient one-stop transfer at the new state-of-the-art Hamad International Airport in Doha,” said Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker.
Qatar Airways will operate at the new Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) , where passengers will experience a world-class terminal featuring premierdining with local flavors , a wide variety of specialty and duty-free retail shopping, work stations and boarding gate seating with electrical outlets, entertaining Interactive Integrated Environmental Media Systems, stream-lined arrivals process, bright and modern design, and more.
Qatar Airways is renowned for its on-board experience and commitment to service quality – ranking two years straight as Best in Business Class and also being named the World’s Best Airline in 2011 and 2012 at the Skytrax World Airline Awards.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States. LAX offers 692 daily nonstop flights to 85 cities in the U.S. and 928 weekly nonstop flights to 67 cities in 34 countries on 64 commercial air carriers. LAX ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed, with over 1.9 million tons of air cargo valued at over $86.9 billion. An economic study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
For more information about LAX, please visit www.lawa.aero/lax or follow on Twitter@flyLAXAirport , on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LAInternationalAirport , and on YouTube atwww.YouTube.com/laxairport1 . Information about LAX’s ongoing multi-billion-dollar LAX Modernization Program as well as tips and shortcuts to help navigate LAX during construction are available at www.LAXisHappening.com .
As a covered entity under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Los Angeles does not discriminate on the basis of disability and, upon request, will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to its programs, services, and activities. Alternative formats in large print, braille, audio, and other forms (if possible) will be provided upon request.
About Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways celebrated its one year anniversary, in October 2014, of joining theoneworld global alliance. Qatar Airways was the first Gulf carrier to join this global airline alliance, enabling its passengers to benefit from almost 1,000 airports in more than 150 countries, with 14,250 daily departures. The award-winning oneworld alliance was named the World’s Best Airline Alliance 2014 by Skytrax for the second year running. For more information about Qatar Airways, please visit: www.qatarairways.com
