American Airlines & Qatar Airways increase cooperation

[Mattg]

Well this is a surprise! Will this bring about the end of the Cold War between the ME3 and the US3?

Interesting that AA will now codeshare with QR again (after ending codeshares in 2017) while also being an Etihad partner. I wonder how long the Etihad partnership will remain?

American Airlines & Qatar Airways Announce Strategic Partnership

American Airlines and Qatar Airways have announced a new strategic partnership, which could see American launching flights to Doha.

onemileatatime.com

American Airlines and Qatar Airways have announced that they plan to renew their codeshare agreement. The airlines say that this is the first step to building a strategic partnership that will increase commercial cooperation.

Pending government approval, American will place their code on select Qatar Airways nonstop and connecting services to and from the US, giving customers access to destinations in the Middle East, East Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Furthermore, Qatar Airways will place their code on select American flights at hubs in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Philadelphia, as well as on American’s international flights to and from Europe, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

The two airlines used to codeshare, but they stopped codesharing in mid-2017, as the “big three” US carriers accused the “big three” Gulf carriers of illegal subsidies.

 

[HS-TQE]

I do wonder if the the long held EY/UA partnership rumour would come to fruition considering the ice has just been broken between QR and AA.