Qatar Airways will soon place a sizeable order for wide-body jets to underpin its longer-term growth plans, the airline's chief commercial officer told Reuters late on Monday.

Qatar Airways is expanding in Berlin but will wait at least another year before adding further German destinations due to sluggish plane deliveries, the company's chief commercial officer said on Tuesday.

Qatar Airways has signaled that it will soon place a large order for widebody aircraft in an effort to ‘secure long-term growth’, according to Reuters.

Qatar Airways plans to increase the frequency of flights to Syria as the carrier builds on growing travel demand to the country emerging from more than a decade of civil war.

An airline traveler has spoken of his shock after cabin staff sat him next to the body of a fellow passenger who had died during the flight.

An Australian couple's story went viral this week after they said crew members placed a dead body in the seats next to them.

Qatar Airways released a statement defending its crew after an Australian couple said they were forced to sit next to a corpse for four hours on a recent flight.

It is clear that Qatar Airways cabin crew acted quickly, appropriately and professionally at all times in line with training and industry standard practice,” the airline maintained.

Qatar Airways has introduced an off-airport check-in service in Makkah for Hajj and Umrah passengers. This new service offers seamless check-in, baggage collection, and boarding pass issuance in Makkah,

As part of its internal review. Qatar Airways found crew had acted "quickly, appropriately and professionally" when they decided to put the deceased woman's body in a seat for the last four hours of a

Qatar Airways has defended the decision to leave a couple sitting next to a dead passenger on a 15-hour flight, saying that its crew "acted quickly, appropriately and professionally".