Doha-based QATAR AIRWAYS is to inaugurate flights to Montréal from June, according to its Chief Executive Officer, Akbar Al-Baker. The Canadian city will be one of the 22 destinations the Middle Eastern carrier plans to add to its network by 2013 and its fourth in North America after Houston, New York and Washington DC. Qatar Airways secured traffic rights into Canada last autumn but until now had not outlined how it would use the slots. It will be the first Gulf airline to serve Montréal and plans to utilise a Boeing 777 on the three-times weekly link to the city's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.