The Qatar Airways will have to make 60 sorties to help chairman of Power International Holding Moutaz Al Khayyat's ambitious plan to become a reality, Bloomberg reported.
A Saudi Arabian airline on Monday tweeted a warm welcome to pilots and staff from Qatar Airways whom it hopes to poach after the kingdom severed air links with Doha.
Striking a careful balance, Erdogan stopped short of directly criticising Saudi Arabia's actions but called on Saudi King Salman to show leadership by solving the crisis.
Beginning June 5, Saudi Arabia, and then Bahrain, Comoros, Egypt, Maldives, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, Yemen's internationally backed government and one of Libya's three governments cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar over accusations that the Gulf nation funded militant groups - charges Doha calls baseless.
In Paris, Sheikh Mohammed, who is on a European tour to drum up support for Qatar, said his country had no idea what had provoked the move against it.
Saudi Arabia's aviation body says closing its airspace to flights from Qatar was within its sovereign rights to protect its citizens from any threat, according to the General Authority of Civil Aviation's statement published by the Saudi Press Agency.
Analysts say Qatar Airways' position as a major transcontinental carrier is now threatened.
Britain urged Gulf states including Saudi Arabia to ease the blockade against Qatar and to find an immediate solution to the impasse through mediation.
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Dubai's massive Jebel Ali Port and Abu Dhabi Terminals also said they would not grant access to other vessels travelling to and from Qatar.
Over the weekend, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani was in Moscow following a telephone call between Putin and Qatar's ruling emir Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani.
Trump last week responded to terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran by warning "states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote", a reaction described as "repugnant" by Iran's foreign minister.
Johnson will meet with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates later this week.
"It is hard for us, the generation that built the GCC 37 years ago, to see these disagreements between its members which may lead to undesirable consequences", said Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad. France has economic and military ties with Qatar and other Gulf states.
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Tuesday before a meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Qatar's ports and airports are open.
Due to the presence of Daesh, al-Qaeda and other extremist groups, the State Department "has assessed Riyadh as being a high-threat location for terrorist activity directed at or affecting official U.S. government interests", the report added.
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