QATAR AIRWAYS SAYS THANK YOU TO CANADA BY FINALISING BOMBARDIER JET ORDER AHEAD OF THE AIRLINE’S CANADIAN DEBUT AT PARIS 2011 AND VIRGIN ATLANTIC DEAL IS ON THE TABLE

Qatar Airways makes its Canadian debut on June 29 when it launches three weekly flights to Montreal -and the Doha-based airline sounds increasingly certain it will provide the city another boost around the same time. That would come in the form of finalizing, at long last, the rollercoaster purchase talks for a raft of CSeries aircraft. Qatar Airways president Akbar AlBaker has hinted that the announcement would come in late June at the Paris air show, after much wrangling for more than 18 months over various issues. SVP for the Americas, Dudley Snyder, called the CSeries “far more appealing” than