QATAR AIRWAYS is to serve Manchester with daily flights in the New Year from Doha. The airline currently operates four scheduled flights each week. Capacity is being increased to a fifth weekly service from 11 February 2006, rising to a daily service at the beginning of the Summer 2006 season on 26 March. The additional Manchester services bring the number of weekly flights up to 28 between Qatar and the UK, twice daily to Heathrow and daily to Gatwick. Qatar Airways will continue operating an Airbus A330-200 on the route, offering a two-class configuration of up to 24 seats in business class and 259 seats in economy. The aircraft features Qatar Airways” award-winning Audio Video On Demand in-flight entertainment system, allowing passengers in both classes to choose from an extensive list of international new release films and short programmes to view on their individual TV screens, and listen to an extensive list of more than 250 CDs and radio channels. Last month Qatar Airways launched flights to Nairobi, followed on 2 December by new services to Madrid. Today the airline begins scheduled flights to Berlin ” its third gateway city in Germany.
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