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When the bi-annual Bahrain Air Show opens its doors on the 21st of January will Qatar Airways once again be present in a big way, showcasing three of their state of the art aircraft for display.

It was just about a year ago when the airline as global launch customer entered the Airbus A350XWB into service with scheduled flights from Doha to Frankfurt. Qatar Airways now has seven of these state of the art aircraft in service, deployed on the routes to Frankfurt, Munich, Singapore and more recently Philadelphia. The world’s aviation media were invited for the global launch event a year ago and many will no doubt look forward to the Bahrain show which runs from the 21st to the 23rd of January at the Sakhir Air Base just outside the capital Manama.

Also on show will be Qatar Airways Airbus A380, featuring the airline’s acclaimed First Class cabin besides their award winning Business and Economy class sections. The third aircraft on display will this year come from the Qatar Airways Executive flight division, showcasing a Bombardier Global 5000 business jet.

Said the airline group’s CEO Mr. Akbar Al Baker, who during the launch event last week in Los Angeles on occasion of Qatar Airways’ inaugural flight to the City of Angels once gain robustly rebutted allegations by the US legacy carriers about unfair competition: ‘We look forward to welcoming guests and visitors on board our very latest aircraft at the Bahrain International Airshow, and celebrating the one year anniversary of A350 operations as the global launch customer.

This aircraft is the very latest in design, technology and comfort, and will make its first appearance at the air show this year, which will delight aviation enthusiasts, families and other visitors to the Middle East’s first major aviation event of 2016’.

Qatar Airways serves East African destinations out of Doha with Airbus A320 aircraft, flying to Entebbe, Kigali, Nairobi, Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar while in the wider region also operating flights to Djibouti, Asmara and Addis Ababa.

In a related development will visitors to the Bahrain Air Show also no doubt look forward to the expected announcement by host country national airline Gulf Air, which has indicated that they will make public their future fleet renewal plans at the air show.