Al Baker: Qatar Airways carried 3.8 million passengers amid pandemic

Qatar Airways Group CEO, H E Akbar Al Baker has disclosed that the airline carried almost four million passengers when other airlines were not operational due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In an interview with an aviation and travel blogger, Sam Chui, Al Baker said he will always look for opportunities to keep the airline afloat and working. “We carried 3.8 million passengers, and we repatriated people when other airlines left their passengers stranded. We were there. I will always take every single opportunity I see. I have to find revenue for my airline, and when everybody shuts their doors, people will still want to travel, and we are there to serve them,” Al Baker told Chui. “We are now the largest long-haul carrier operating in the world today. We received the lowest equity injection of any airline.