Qatar Airways Enhances Oryx One IFE with PressReader Partnership

Qatar Airways has partnered with PressReader to offer passengers unlimited access to more than 6,000 global digital magazine and newspaper titles through the airline’s Oryx One in-flight entertainment app.

The titles that PressReader currently offers are from 120 countries and in more than 60 languages.

Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said, “Our partnership with PressReader not only offers a COVID-safe, contactless entertainment option to further enhance our passenger’s on-board experience, it also supports our commitment to environmental sustainability, which continues to be a key focus for the airline.”

Passengers can access titles by downloading the Oryx One app to their personal electronic devices (PEDs), inserting their Booking Reference Number (PNR) into the app’s ‘Newsstand’ and selecting the exclusively curated titles they wish to save.

The service will be available up to three days before, and seven days after scheduled flights and the downloaded content will stay in a user’s digital library for as long as they have the app installed,  helping to reduce newspaper and magazine waste, both on the ground and in-flight, by over 1,000 tonnes each year.

In addition to this, unlike other airline digital offerings, passengers will not need to leave Oryx One or download any additional apps to access the content at any point.

The Oryx One app is available for download from Google Play and Apple App stores.

PressReader Group of Companies Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Alex Kroogman, said, “We are honoured to be chosen by Qatar Airways to bring quality journalism and a superior reading experience to its customers in a 100 per cent contactless way – pre, during and post-flight.”

Qatar Airways' network currently stands at over 120 destinations.

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