Public transport company Mowasalat is to add new vehicles to its airport fleet with the aim of providing a hassle-free travelling experience to passengers who use Doha International Airport, a senior company official has said.<\/p>\n
The company is set to introduce 50 vans to its airport service, Ali Abdulla Bahzad, director of operations at Mowasalat, has told local Arabic daily Al-Sharq.<\/p>\n
Mowasalat is the sole operator of public transport in Qatar and runs the Karwa brand of taxis and buses in the country.<\/p>\n
Bahzad said the new vehicles would have a seating capacity of seven and more room for luggage. The company\u2019s airport fleet will be upgraded as soon as the new vehicles are received from local distributors.<\/p>\n
The other two operators who have been licensed by Mowasalat, Al Million and Al Ijarah, will work with Karwa to expand the airport service to provide the \u201cmaximum possible service\u201d.<\/p>\n
Bahzad pointed out that the booking of taxis through the call centre would be changed into an electronic system where reservations would be done through an automated process.<\/p>\n
\u201cA reception clerk would follow up the request through a monitor showing the distribution and locations of available taxis and direct the nearest cab to go to the customer,\u201d he said. \u201cThis task will be outsourced and a separate company will be assigned to take over this service, which would be implemented during next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the reservation centre at the airport worked round the clock as the demand had been increasing all year round.<\/p>\n
Mowasalat will also increase the number of taxi ranks around the country, adopting a \u201cmore sophisticated distribution plan that keep pace with the vast developments taking place in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n
The director stressed that Mowasalat had made available more taxis for the Eid festivities, particularly at popular locations. \u201cTaxis and supervisors were available 24 hours at such hot spots.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the Karwa fleet had executed 3.12mn trips during January-June this year, with the limousine fleet doing 29,928 trips during the six months.<\/p>\n
Source: Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Public transport company Mowasalat is to add new vehicles to its airport fleet with the aim of providing a hassle-free travelling experience to passengers who use Doha International Airport, a senior company official has said.<\/p>\n
The company is set to introduce 50 vans to its airport service, Ali Abdulla Bahzad, director of operations at Mowasalat, has told local Arabic daily Al-Sharq.<\/p>\n
Mowasalat is the sole operator of public transport in Qatar and runs the Karwa brand of taxis and buses in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":9370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qatar_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}