The airline Qatar Airways evaluates operating to Mexico City through Milan, in Italy, through the use of the fifth freedom of the air, a right that allows an airline to fly from one country to another by stopping at an intermediate point, being able to disembark passengers and cargo.
Through his Twitter account, the Secretary of Tourism, Miguel Torruco, reported a meeting with Mohammed Alkuwar, Qatar’s ambassador to Mexico, in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Civil Aviation Agency also participated, where they discussed the airline raid.
“Among the topics we discussed at this meeting, the following stand out: bilateral relations between #Qatar and Mexico; possible promotional actions to increase the flow of tourists between both countries; possible Quinta Libertad for the Milan-CDMX route by @qatarairways ”, he said.
The incursion of the Qatari airline is evaluated just over a year before the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, which will take place in that country between November and December 2022.
🇲🇽🤝🇶🇦 We met in SECTUR with His Excellency the Ambassador of Qatar in Mexico, Mohammed Alkuwari and officials from; José Alfonso Zegbe Camarena,; Carlos Antonio Rodríguez Munguía, and officials from the Ministry of Tourism.
– MiguelTorrucoMarqués (@TorrucoTurismo)
Qatar Airways would be the second Middle Eastern airline to fly to the country, after Emirates entered the Mexican market in December 2019, using the fifth freedom of the air scheme to fly from Dubai to Mexico City with a stopover in Barcelona. , which generated a confrontation with other airlines that operated the last section of this route, such as Aeroméxico.
Currently, Qatar Airways carries out cargo operations to Mexico, being the main Asian cargo company by number of tons transported, according to data from the Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT).
