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Qatar To Send Five Airliners to Paris Show
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Airbus delivered the first Airbus A350 to Qatar Airways on December 22. (Photo: Airbus)
Airbus delivered the first Airbus A350 to Qatar Airways on December 22. (Photo: Airbus)

Qatar Airways has committed to sending five of its airplanes to the Paris Air Show, scheduled to take place at Le Bourget Airport from June 15 to 21. A regular exhibitor on the international airshow circuit, Qatar Airways plans to show a Boeing 787 along with four of its Airbus types, namely an A320, an A319, an A380 and an A350. In January Qatar became the first airline in the world to fly the A350 in scheduled service, launching so-called double daily service to Frankfurt. The airline last week announced plans to extend A350 service in the German market in October, when it begins flying the mainly composite-bodied Airbus widebody to Munich alongside a Boeing 787. On May 11, it launched service to Singapore with its third A350, and plans to roll out three-times-daily service to the island nation by August 1 with its fourth and fifth A350.