Al Baker calls for resilient approach to operations by airlines

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) Group Chief Executive of Qatar Airways and One World Alliance Chairman H E Akbar Al Baker has called on airlines to take a resilient approach to strategies and operations as they continue to face ever-changing travel restrictions and border requirements.   In an interview with the new Euronews international business show, The Exchange (TEX), which aired yesterday, produced from the Euronews bureau in Media City Qatar, Al Baker shared his views on the future of business travel with anchor Guy Shone.   In the interview, Al Baker talked about the need to robustly capitalise on every single business opportunity to aid the recovery of a global economy ''decimated by this one unseen enemy – the coronavirus.”  He also explores how airlines must take a resilient approach to strategies and operations as they continue to face ever-changing travel restrictions and border requirements.  The eight-minute show will air 15 times on Euronews’ nine TV language editions over a week and will be available on Euronews Next in 12 languages. It also features a report on how Hamad International Airport in Doha has used state-of-the-art technology to become the first and only in the Middle East and Asia to be awarded a Skytrax 5 star COVID-19 airport safety rating.  The Exchange (TEX) has been created to report on people, businesses, ideas, and innovations at the forefront of the business conversation in the 21st Century. Profiling disruptive start-ups and entrepreneurs alongside established and experienced leaders, it reports on new tech, ideas, and philosophies breaking through in the business world.   The new show is fronted by anchor Guy Shone, who has been a regular business contributor of Euronews in English’s evening show on Euronews for the last two years.  The Exchange (TEX) is rooted in the business hub of Qatar and produced out of the new Euronews bureau in Media City Qatar. MENAFN24062021000063011010ID1102337256