Most Flights In 2 Years: Qatar Airways & American Airlines' Expanding Doha To North America Operations

Qatar Airways and close partner American Airlines collectively plan 124 weekly flights to the US and Canada next summer. Up to 18 daily flights will be available. Although higher than in 2025, it will not exceed the 132 departures available in the summer of 2024.

Qatar Airways’ launch of Toronto service in December 2024 helped, as did that route’s subsequent frequency increase to daily, which takes effect at the end of October 2025. However, some routes have experienced frequency reductions compared to the record offering in 2024. The resulting capacity reduction probably helps loads and yields.

Qatar Airways & American’s 124 Weekly US/Canada Flights In July 2026

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The pair’s planned operations next July are summarized below. Some 14 routes will be available, with the Airbus A350-1000 playing an important role. Fellow oneworld member and strategic alliance partner American continues to serve Philadelphia, where it has 75% of the flights, on Qatar Airways’ behalf. American replaced the Gulf carrier in October 2023. American ceased New York JFK to Doha flights because of this, with Qatar Airways consequently increasing its own frequency to the Big Apple.

Compared to the record held in 2024, Qatar Airways’ JFK flights have fallen from three daily to 18 weekly, while Los Angeles’ offering has halved to daily. Boston departures have reduced from ten weekly to daily, while Montreal service has decreased from daily to five weekly.

Toronto is the only addition. It materialized due to the slight loosening of the UAE-Canada bilateral air service agreement. Not only is it Canada’s largest and most important market, but Emirates and Air Canada collectively have two daily Toronto-Dubai flights, and Etihad now serves Toronto daily aboard the Airbus A380. Qatar Airways couldn’t be seen with a sub-daily offering.

How The Pair’s North American Flights Are Scheduled

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The figure above shows how Qatar Airways and American’s US/Canada flights are coordinated in a week next July. There is one large wave, which consists of a big early morning departure bank, with those flights arriving back in the late afternoon/early evening the following day.

Thirteen North America-bound departures are scheduled to depart from Doha between 07:50 and 08:30, as shown in the following table. Unsurprisingly, they’ll be fed numerous arriving flights from across South Asia. This particularly means India, with services from 13 cities across that vast country touching down in Qatar between 04:50 and 06:35.

As you’d expect, the other, significantly smaller departure/arrival times generally relate to routes with more than a daily service. The exception is American’s Philly offering. Services leave Doha at 01:50, which is during the much smaller, second-largest departure bank. Strangely, this means no Indian flights connect with a competitive schedule.

A Brief Look At Qatar Airways To Atlanta

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Qatar Airways has had passenger flights to Atlanta, which is the world’s busiest airport by passenger volume but not aircraft movements, since June 2016. To capture more attention, the A380 was used on the first round-trip service, with the 777-200LR, 777-300ER, A350-900, and A350-1000 deployed since then.

US Department of Transportation data for July 2024 to June 2025 indicates that Qatar Airways carried 219,000 round-trip Atlanta passengers. It filled a hefty 92% of the available seats, with monthly results varying from 90% to 94%. Obviously, it performs very strongly in this sense, but fare data and other factors should also be considered.

Booking data shows that approximately 160,000 passengers (73%) connected to another flight in Doha. The ten most popular cities were Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Ho Chi Minh City, Delhi, Dubai, Bangkok, and Kochi. Etihad, which made its Atlanta debut in July 2025, will also be targeting many of these places.