Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways, at a press conference about the new flight schedule between Qatar and Schiphol. Photo ANP / Lex van Lieshout
If the government refuses to give extra landing rights at Schiphol air from the Gulf, it could affect the number of orders for Dutch companies in Qatar. That threat uttered the chief executive of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker today during a press conference in Amsterdam.
Qatar Airways plans according to Al Baker happy to fly at the Dutch airport but is then counteracted by the Dutch government. He said about it:
“If you like our country refuses access, you can not expect much government contracts from Qatar. [...] My government is not happy with refusal Gulf carriers at the airport, and that could have implications for UK companies in Qatar. “
During his visit in Amsterdam announced the chief executive of Qatar Airways new passenger service between Amsterdam and Doha, capital of Qatar. From mid-June, in which six times a week flown in both directions. Al Baker wants to expand to at least seven flights, and preferably to several times a day.
However, the Dutch government is cautious about providing extra landing rights to airlines from the Persian Gulf. This was prompted by suspicions that the airlines are financially supported by the oil states, allowing them to keep their ticket prices artificially low. Netherlands wants now blames investigate first
As long as that investigation is going on, there is a temporary stop to the provision of additional landing rights, said Secretary Wilma Mansveld last week in Nieuwsuur:.
“This means that the Netherlands for as long as this agreement is still being negotiated, tentative grants no new landing rights to airlines from the Gulf States.”
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