COUNTDOWN TO QATAR

Before the global pandemic grounded the world’s aircraft, almost 40 million people passed through Qatar’s Hamad International Airport in 2019 (complete with Paris Saint-Germain gift shop), one of the increasingly important hubs of the aviation world. The overwhelming majority of non-Qataris were catching connecting flights to other destinations. Only around two million or so tourists actually followed the signs pointing to the immigration hall and then jumped on the newly-built metro to head to downtown Doha.

That is all going to change in November, as Qatar becomes the destination for football fans from every continent when they descend on the country for the