Chongqing gets Qatar flights

Best known as the launch city for Yangtze River cruises through the Three Gorges Dam, Chongqing is to be served three times per week by Qatar Airways from its hub at Doha.  The flights will be operated by two-class Airbus A330 aircraft featuring a Business and Economy layout.  Chongqing is the fifth Chinese destination for Qatar Airways taking the carrier’s capacity to the People’s Republic up to 28 flights a week.

Chongqing is a major manufacturing centre and a key transportation hub located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, a vitally important shipping waterway in China.  With Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, it is also one of only four municipalities in China that report directly to the national government.

Main local industries in Chongqing are consumer goods and the processing of food, automobiles, chemicals, textiles and machinery.  The city is the largest in China for the production of motorcycles and third biggest for motor vehicles. www.qatarairways.com

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