Qatar Airways has announced its tie up with Brand USA to promote USA as a preferred destination. As a part of this alliance, the airline will offer passengers special fares to destinations in the USA. The fares from India to USA on both classes of travel are available for booking till December 2013, with travel validity until 31 March 2014. “Qatar Airways is delighted to join hands with Brand USA in working towards increasing traffic to the biggest tourism attractions in the USA. We have seen a remarkable response from India to our rapidly expanding USA route network. This partnership is an obvious extension of augmenting the convenience of our Doha hub to seamlessly connect travellers from India to USA by providing them a more compelling offer,” Henry Moses, country manager for India at Qatar Airways. “The excellent network of Qatar Airways to multiple Indian gateways and flight connectivity to our cities will enable more visitors from India to discover USA and its attractive tourism attractions.” said Jay Gray, vice president for global partnership development at Brand USA. Qatar Airways flies to four North American destinations of New York, Washington DC, Houston and Chicago with 28 scheduled flights each week. The airline will launch flights to Philadelphia on 2 April 2014 and Miami on 10 June 2014. Source: Travel Daily