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Page 01 Feb 05.Indd www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Special Lease Offer MEDINAMEDIINA CENTRALECENTRALE BUSINESS | 18 SPORT | 24 Special Lease Offer PORTOPORTO ARABIAARABIA 4409 5155 Planet Labs inks Qatar's Rashed 4409 5155 deal for Google's clinches satellite business dramatic win Sunday 5 February 2017 | 8 Jumada I 1438 Volume 21 | Number 7063 | 2 Riyals World’s longest flight by Qatar Airways that Qatar condemns Push for more crosses 10 time zones takes off today attack on Louvre Museum in Paris QR 920 10 time zones 17h 45m travel and QNA Scheduled to leave Crosses 10 time zones before arriv- This journey of 17 hours and 45 minutes will Doha today at ing in Auckland, New Zealand, on become the longest passenger flight in the world 5:10am. Monday at 7:30am. covering 9,032 miles. QATAR has strongly con- 217 ECONOMY demned the attack on a tourism offices The Boeing 777-200LR will pass over Dubai, CLASS SEATS security post near the Louvre northern Oman, southern tip of India, Sri Lanka, across Museum in Paris. 42 BUSINESS the Indian Ocean and Western Australia. In a statement yesterday, Mohammed Osman More prospects CLASS SEATS the Foreign Ministry said that The Peninsula the State of Qatar condemns Qatari investors Doha the criminal act, and reiter- he Ministry of Econ- asked to explore the ates solidarity with the omy and Commerce possibility of French Republic. has called on Qatari establishing more The Ministry renewed investors to explore travel and tourism Qatar's firm position reject- the possibility of offices in the ing violence and terrorism in The 5 longest routes are: Testablishing more travel and country. all its forms and tourism offices in the country, Doha-Auckland: 9,032 miles manifestations. Industry sources Dubai-Auckland: 8,824 miles indicating that there is more Dallas-Sydney: 8,578 miles The Organization of scope for such facilities outside say that most of Johannesburg-Atlanta: 8,439 miles Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Doha and its suburbs. the business is Singapore-San Francisco: 8,434 miles also yesterday strongly Data released by the Min- concentrated denounced the terror offen- istry shows that the highest in Doha. sive in which a man carrying number of travel and tourism a knife attacked the security offices are based in Al Rayyan, To establish a new travel Auckland patrol stationed in front of the with 32 licence holders. Doha agency investors need to Louvre museum. has 11 active business licences develop a work plan based on Source: Qatar Airways / Agencies The Peninsula graphic: Abraham In a statement, the Sec- in the sector, Umm Salal six, Al economic feasibility and deter- retary General of OIC, Dr Wakrah five and Al Khor and mine the value of investment, Yousef bin Ahmed Al Oth- Dakhira two. the Ministry said in an advisory aimeen, expressed his Of the active businesses in issued to potential investors. disappointment over the hei- the travel and tourism indus- “As your customers are QA to fly passengers from banned nous crime which includes, try, travel offices top the list families, individuals, retired according to a preliminary with 332 facilities, followed by persons, students, tourist probe launched into the inci- tourism with 237 offices. groups, and businessmen, you nations after US court verdict dent by the French Offices conducting local need to approach them through authorities, bears the signs tourism are listed among the online monthly bulletin, social of a terrorist attack. Al Oth- most inactive with 14 offices media and create database for Huda N V Customs and Border Protection "We have reversed the provi- aimeen confirmed the and three offices dealing in land the customers,” said the ww (CBP), nationals of the seven sional revocation of visas," a US solidarity of OIC with France tourism. Ministry. affected countries listed below State Department spokesman and the French people. Data about the number of Citing the latest global sta- atar Airways said yester- and all refugees seeking admis- told AFP. → See also page 13 people served per office indi- tistical data on travel and day it will resume carrying sion presenting a valid, "Those individuals with cate that Al Khor and Dakira are tourism, the Ministry said that Qnationals of seven previ- unexpired US visa or Lawful visas that were not physically Tajikistan President the least served, geographically, 57 percent of the bookings are ously barred countries on its Permanent Resident (LPR) card cancelled may now travel if the with 101,015 people per office. being done through the inter- US-bound flights, after a US fed- (Green Card) will be permitted visa is otherwise valid," the offi- arrives today Each office in Doha serves net and 47 percent of the eral judge temporarily halted a to travel to the United States and cial said. 86,950 people and that in Al searches are being made on controversial travel ban. Citizens will be processed accordingly The State Department offi- QNA Wakra 59,807 people. Every smart phones. Industry sources of Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, upon arrival," said Qatar Air- cial added that the Trump office in Umm Salal and Al say that most of the business is Iran, Iraq and Yemen holding ways in an announcement on administration is "working TAJIKISTAN'S President Rayyan serve 15,139 and 18,928 concentrated in Doha, although valid US visas can now fly Qatar its website. closely with the Department of Emomali Rahmon will arrive people, respectively. some travel and tour operators Airways. US authorities yesterday Homeland Security and our legal in Doha on an official visit to The Ministry said that 91 have opened small offices in Last week, the airline had suspended President Donald teams" pending a full review of Qatar today. percent of the holders of licenes areas outside the city but have issued a travel alert restricting Trump's controversial ban on a complaint filed by Washing- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim in travel and tourism are men not found them very US travel for the nationals of travellers from seven Muslim ton state's attorney general, bin Hamad Al Thani and the and 57 percent of them are aged successful. these countries on its flights. countries, following a court rul- which filed the challenge. President of Tajikistan will above 45 years. → Continued on page 5 "As directed by the US ing that blocked its enforcement. → See also page 15 hold talks tomorrow. New company Nights to be colder in to manage HIA some parts of Qatar The Peninsula The Peninsula and Al Khor, with the temperature dropping to 7 degrees at night. The he Executive Board of Directors of Qatar Air- he country would continue to day would be hotter with sunshine ways Group has announced the establishment experience the cold spell taking the mercury to 17 and 19 Tof a new company to manage and operate Tbrought forth by the north- degrees, respectively. Dukhan will Hamad International Airport (HIA) as an independ- westerly winds from the icy have the coolest daytime with 15 ent entity owned by Qatar Airways Group. European regions. Mercury is degrees Celsius, and 11 degrees at The decision was announced at the board meet- expected to dip as low as 7 degrees night. ing held on January 31. Having opened in 2014, the Celsius in some parts of the coun- In Mesaieed and Al Wakrah, airport serves 30 million passengers a year, and can try tonight. temperatures would fall to 8 handle 100 aircraft movements per hour on its dual- Yesterday, the lowest temper- degrees tonight, while day temper- runways. Within two years of its opening, HIA has ature was recorded at 6 degrees atures would likely be 19 degrees. earned several world-class awards and recognitions Celsius at Turayna, south of the The northwesterly winds will blow including the Skytrax 5-Star Airport award – the only country. between 5 to 15 knots inland. Off- Middle Eastern airport to have earned this honour; While nights would remain shore, the wind direction would be Skytrax’s Middle East’s Best Airport in 2015 and 2016; chilly, days would be warmer com- northwesterly, with speeds rang- Skytrax Best Staff Service in the Middle East 2016; pared to the last few days with ing up to 22 knots, decreasing to 18 and previously Best Airport Award at the Future winds subsiding. knots by mid-day. The wave height Travel Experience (FTE) Asia Awards in 2015. Maximum temperature in Doha will be between 5 to 7 feet at first HIA is the official airport of Bayern-Munich Foot- is expected to soar to 20 degrees, falling to 2 to 4 feet later. ball Club. Services and facilities at HIA include Qatar while in Mesaieed, Al Wakrah and The bureau has issued no Duty Free, a premium shopping emporium with more Al Khor it will be 19 degrees. inshore warning for today and said A man sips tea at a cafe in Industrial Area yesterday. People took than 40,000 square metres of combined retail and The weather bureau has fore- visibility could be four to eight kil- dining with more than 70 boutiques and 30 cafés to the outdoors covered in warm clothes as sunshine brought some cast a mild day with some clouds, ometre. However, it continues its and restaurants. relief from chilly conditions on Friday. today. The coldest place in the warning of strong winds and high → Continued on page 5 Pic: Salim Matramkot/The Peninsula country today would be Abu Samra seas for sea goers. 02 HOME SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2017 Emir greets Sri Lankans mark 69th Independence Day Sri Lankan President Fazeena Saleem Sankapali, addressing the The Peninsula Emir praised gathering, said, “You all have EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin Sankapali thanks been here for the past years or Hamad Al Thani sent yester- ri Lankans in Qatar cel- Emir and the decades.
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