Qatar Airways grows Belgrade codeshare partners

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Qatar Airways grows Belgrade codeshare partners

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Oman Air and Cathay Pacific have expanded their codeshare partnership with Qatar Airways to include their designator code and flight numbers onto the carrier’s service between Doha and Belgrade, currently served three times per week. Coming into effect from this Monday, both the Omani and Hong Kong airline will now have a better presence on the Serbian market, as well as enable improved connectivity through Doha. Oman Air previously codeshared on Etihad Airways’ service between Abu Dhabi and Belgrade which was terminated last year. Qatar Airways' Belgrade service is also codeshared by SriLankan Airlines.

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Anonymous10:37
Slowly the signs of recovery are being seen on Belgrade sky.
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Anonymous10:47
Actually this is pretty epic news because until now there was no option to book BEG via Cathay Pacific's website. Hopefully that changes now especially since China is a big market from Belgrade.
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Anonymous10:52
I did a dummy booking and BEG was added to Cathay Pacific's website.

HKG-DOH 01.35-05.00 QR B77W
DOH-BEG 07.05-11.20 QR A320

BEG-DOH 12.05-18.00 QR A320
DOH-HKG 01.55-15.05 QR B77W

€1.100
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Anonymous12:14
Does CX offers more destinations in the reging except ZAG and BEG?
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