Qatar Airways is featuring several upscale dishes utilizing smoked Norwegian salmon from Ocean Fish in Doha, Qatar.
Customers flying in the airline’s first-class and business-class cabins can now choose to order pre-sliced smoked salmon, tenderloin smoked salmon and chilled salmon gravlax, in addition to an Atlantic Salmon fillet option.
More than 70,000 smoked salmon dishes a monthly are served on board Qatar Airways’ flights. Ocean Fish is one of the largest suppliers of smoked salmon in the Middle East, according to Qatar Airways.
“Our state-of-the-art facility here in Doha uses the same traditional methods for smoking, where we hand-salt the fresh fish, and use our own carefully chosen beachwood to smoke the fish to just the right flavor for our customers,” said Anders Jensen, factory manager and smoke master for Ocean Fish. The supplier sources the salmon from family-run companies in Norway, he added.
“We are delighted to be able to offer our passengers Qatari-crafted smoked salmon, which is produced to the very highest international standards, using traditional Scandinavian methods,” said Aaron Claxton, senior vice president for catering services for Qatar Airways.
