International anger has escalated against Qatar, after the incident of women travelers being subjected to forcible and humiliating checks at Doha airport, amid calls for a boycott of the Qatar Airways company.
The crisis between Australia and Qatar worsened, after Australian female travelers said that they underwent forced checks in order to find out if they were responsible for throwing an abandoned infant into an airport bathroom.
And condemned the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this incident, describing it as “aggression”, and called on the Qatari authorities to provide an answer about what happened.
But the reactions did not stop at this point, as Australian politicians from various parties withdrew from a dinner party held by the Qatari embassy in Australia, in protest against the insults that Australian women had received.
Meanwhile, the British authorities confirmed that two British women, who were among a group of travelers, were subjected to medical examinations while traveling through Qatar.
This scandal joins a series of nightmares experienced by Qatar Airways, as the CEO of Qatar Airways recently said that it is likely that the company’s ten Airbus A380 aircraft will not be used for several years due to the impact of the Corona virus crisis on demand.
“We do not expect to use our A380 aircraft for the next two years at least,” Akbar Al Baker told an Internet conference.
The state-owned airline has grounded aircraft due to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on travel demand.
Hamad International Airport in Doha
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He had said in June that the planes would remain grounded until at least the middle of next year. The airline plans to begin decommissioning the A380 by 2024, when its older aircraft completes 10 years in service.
Al-Baker said the A380s would return to service when the airline reaches the growth rate achieved in 2019 before the pandemic.
Qatar Airways incurred losses estimated at about $ 1.9 billion in the fiscal year 2019-2020 due to the consequences of the pandemic, which are record losses for the company at a time when Al-Baker indicated that these numbers will not be the end of his company’s train of losses, with expectations of continuing in the near future.
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