Liberals Celebrate Qatar Airways' New Service To Philadelphia

[Binyamin Yisrael]

Qatar Airways Begins Nonstop Service to Philly

PHILADELPHIA April 2, 2014 (AP)

Associated Press

Qatar Airways has begun nonstop daily flights from Philadelphia to Doha, capital of Qatar in the southern Arabian Gulf region of the Middle East.

The inaugural flight of the service arrived Wednesday morning at Philadelphia International Airport.

The city is the fifth in the United States served by the airline, which serves more than 120 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America and South America.

Philadelphia political and business leaders have hailed the service. Mayor Michael Nutter said after last year's announcement that convenient international air service is essential to the economic vitality of the region.

Airport CEO Mark Gale called it a "huge deal" and told KYW that Qatar Airways is the first foreign flag carrier to enter Philadelphia in over a decade.

[Binyamin Yisrael]

All I have to say is:

1. Who would want to go to the smelly Arab country Qatar?

2. If they do it just so they can change flights in Qatar to go to other countries in Asia for cheaper, they have learned nothing from the 1999 crash of an Egyptian airplane and the recent disappearance of the Malaysian airplane.