Qatar Airways and Hermes Airports came together to celebrate the airline’s 25th anniversary along with a very successful 2022 and its continued operations in Cyprus on January 18th 2023. Hermes Airports and Qatar Airways welcomed key stakeholders with speeches from Hermes Airports Chief Executive Officer Mrs. Eleni Kaloyirou and Mr. Mate Hoffmann, Qatar Airways Regional Manager Southern Europe.

Qatar Airways celebrated a successful year in 2022 as the airline reached 25 years of operations. Beyond this important milestone, Qatar Airways was also the official airline for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which was held in Qatar for the first time in the Middle East. In 2022, Qatar Airways continued to strengthen its global presence reaching over 150 destinations worldwide. The airline also continued its award-winning service and won the “Airline of the Year” for a record-breaking seventh time by the Skytrax World Airline Awards 2022 along with Hamad International Airport winning “Best Airport in the World” for a second time in a row.

At the event at Larnaka International Airport, key stakeholders gathered to recognize Qatar Airways’ 25th anniversary and other accomplishments in 2022, but also the continued success of flight operations out of Cyprus. Qatar Airways has flown out of Larnaka since 2014 reaching double daily service before the pandemic and currently servicing Cyprus with a daily flight.

Qatar Airways has also shared the new European Cluster commercial reorganization unveiled in 2022 during the event. This reorganization ensures the World’s Best Airline delivers the highest quality of service to passengers and trade partners.

Under the new model, Europe is divided into five regions with a hub servicing multiple countries. Italy will serve as the hub for the Southern Europe region. Cyprus will be covered under this structure in Southern Europe. Key roles have been elevated to oversee the strategy and commercial priorities of the company at a regional level, not only a country level. Lastly, sales teams will have additional support across several countries within the region as opposed to on an individual country basis. These changes will further enhance and streamline efforts to connect Europe throughout the world via Qatar Airways.

With the new reorganization, key roles in Southern Europe have been added.

• Mr. Mate Hoffmann will serve as the Regional Manager for Southern Europe.

• Mr. Sandro Magnetta will serve as the Sales Manager – Corporate for Southern Europe.

• Mr. Angelo Bartolini will serve as the Sales Manager – Leisure for Southern Europe.

• Mr. Mario Testa will serve as Sales Operations Specialists for Southern Europe.