Rich, resourceful and real: Qatar Airways Cargo is a rival to be feared - or joined
Qatar Airways means business. This carrier is not playing at cargo. It has big ambitions, ...
The charismatic CEO of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker, finally appeared to acknowledge the carrier’s freight arm this week when he pledged to become one of the top five cargo carriers in the world by 2018. Speaking at the World Cargo Symposium in Doha, Mr Al Baker broke what seems to have been something of a silence on freight, saying: “I want to be in the top five in the next five years. And when I say something I mean ...
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