Qatar Airways has announced strategies to expand flights to Germany with the launching of scheduled services to Stuttgart and greater capacity to Munich next year.

Stuttgart, to be served 3 times a week, will be the Doha-based carrier’s fourth destination in Germany. Known as the “cradle of the automobile industry”, flights to Germany’s sixth largest city will commence on 9 March 2011. At the same time, Qatar Airways will raise frequency on the Doha – Munich route from daily flights to 11 services a week using Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft.The news comes as Qatar Airways prepares to get on on a enormous European expansion drive with the launch of flights to Nice, Budapest, Bucharest and Brussels over a 10 week-period from November 2010 to January 2011.


Qatar Airways’ new flights to Stuttgart and added services to Munich will see the airline operate 31- flights-a-week non-stop from Doha to 4 destinations across Germany. The carrier by now serves Berlin daily and Frankfurt with 10-flights-a-week.By March next year, Qatar Airways will manage 182 flights a week to cities across Europe, one of the carrier’s key global markets.

The Airbus A319 single-aisle aircraft chosen to operate the new Stuttgart route features a capacity of 110 seats – eight in Business Class and 102 in Economy Class. The aircraft is outfitted with the state-of-the-art Oryx Entertainment system providing individual TV touch screens in each seat and over 700 audio video entertainment options.The aircraft also features On Air mobile telecommunication technology enabling passengers to send and receive SMS and MMS messages, as well as browse the web using their internet-enabled mobile device.