LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Qatar Airways will not take any
new planes from Boeing or Airbus in 2020 or
2021, chief executive Akbar al-Baker said on Wednesday, adding
that there would be a knock-on effect to future deliveries due
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Quite a lot of (deliveries) will be deferred. We have
already notified both Boeing and Airbus that we will not be
taking any aeroplanes this year or next year," he said in an
interview on Britain's Sky News.
"All the other aircraft that we have on order that were
supposed to be delivered to us within the next two or three
years, will now be pushed back to as long as nearly eight to 10
years."
(Reporting by Alistair Smout in London and Alexander Cornwell
in Dubai, editing by Louise Heavens)