Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad International) will take delivery of its first A350-900, A7-ALA (cn 6), on December 13. According to manufacturer Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac), the hand-over will take place at Toulouse Blagnac following which the twinjet will be ferried to Doha Hamad International.

Initial commercial operations to Frankfurt International are set for January next year.

As the launch customer for the A350, the Qatari carrier has forty-three A350-900s and thirty-seven A350-1000s on order from Airbus.