Even the financially strong Qatar Airways is not spared the consequences of the Corona crisis and needs state support - the Qatari government is injecting the equivalent of two billion dollars.

They were also urgently needed. Because the golf airline is also in the red. According to the newly published figures, the bottom line was a loss of $ 1,9 billion, such as aljazeera.com reported. In particular, the pandemic and the failed investment in Air Italy would have weakened the airline - and almost doubled the losses. "Without the Covid-19 pandemic, we could have topped our last financial year," said the airline's managing director, Akbar al-Baker.