Daily Times
April 7, 2021
Top Boeing customer Qatar Airways on Tuesday expressed interest in a potential new freighter from the US planemaker, while urging engine maker GE to invest in future technology as pressure builds on airlines to reduce emissions. Plans for a freighter 777X have been delayed as Boeing wrestles with certification delays and weak demand for its passenger version. Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker told an online event the Gulf carrier would “definitely be interested to look into” a freighter 777X, though said he had not been notified by Boeing about plans to launch it. Qatar Airways would need to start replacing older 777 jets by the time Boeing or rival Airbus launch any new aircraft programmes, he said. European planemaker Airbus is also gauging airline interest in a freighter version of its A350 passenger jet, which if launched would target a market key to Boeing, Reuters reported in March. Qatar Airways has ordered 65 777X passenger jets, acc
Five Pakistani sailors reach home finally
National
April 6, 2021
KARACHI: Five out of the six Pakistanis stranded in a tugboat in the Red Sea finally reached Karachi on early Tuesday after a month-long ordeal of drifting in the sea mostly without food and water. “The good news is that five of the six Pakistanis rescued by the Egyptian Navy have been brought back by Qatar Airways from Egypt,” said social worker Ansar Burney while talking to The News. “But the sixth one, Mohammad Shafi, passed away on the drifting tugboat Mehr in the Red Sea and his body will arrive by cargo in a day or two.”
KARACHI: Five out of the six Pakistanis stranded in a tugboat in the Red Sea finally reached Karachi on early Tuesday after a month-long ordeal of drifting in the sea mostly without food and.
By Reuters Staff
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FILE PHOTO: A Qatar Airways plane takes off at Hamad International Airport, as the country resumes international flights to Saudi Arabia, in Doha, Qatar January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari/File Photo
DUBAI (Reuters) - Top Boeing customer Qatar Airways on Tuesday expressed interest in a potential new freighter from the U.S. planemaker, while urging engine maker GE to invest in future technology as pressure builds on airlines to reduce emissions.
Plans for a freighter 777X have been delayed as Boeing wrestles with certification delays and weak demand for its passenger version.
Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker told an online event the Gulf carrier would “definitely be interested to look into” a freighter 777X, though said he had not been notified by Boeing about plans to launch it.
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