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Qatar Airways flies into the hotel business

Qatar Airlines is currently in negotiations to buy three hotels situated in North America and in the UK.

Mar 05, 2015 | By AFPRelaxnews

Qatar Airways Airbus A340-600

Qatar Airlines is currently in negotiations to buy three hotels situated in North America and in the UK.

The company’s chief executive Akbar Al Baker, confirmed the news during a press conference at the ITB Berlin travel and trade show.

The new acquisitions would give the flag carrier a fledgling chain of four hotels, having recently taken over the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London’s Heathrow airport (pictured below).

Sheraton Skyline Hotel

Meanwhile the Virgin Group, which counts airlines among its many businesses, also recently opened its first Virgin Hotel in Chicago, with other locations planned for Nashville and New York.


 
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