Qatar Airways has launched a range of new smoked Norwegian salmon dishes featuring traditional Scandinavian methods, allowing customers flying in the airline’s First and Business Class cabins to choose from locally-smoked salmon dishes as part of the airline’s bespoke a la carte dine-on-demand menu.

The new Qatar Airways salmon dishes include pre-sliced smoked salmon, tender-loin smoked salmon, and chilled salmon gravlax, in addition to an Atlantic salmon fillet option. The locally-produced dishes are sourced from Doha-based company Ocean Fish, one of the region’s premier seafood producers and the largest supplier of smoked salmon in the Middle East.

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Using traditional methods, the salmon is smoked over specially-chosen Beachwood, which gives it a distinctive flavour, and allowed to rest, enabling it to mature and dry, and is then smoked again over 10-14 hours to further infuse it with Ocean Fish’s trademark aroma.

Earlier this month, Qatar Airways launched a new Pre-Select Dining menu option, enabling passengers in First and Business Class to board their flight in the comfort and knowledge that their pre-selected dish has been reserved.

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“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,” says Aaron Claxton, Qatar Airways senior vice president for catering services. “Working in partnership with Ocean Fish, we are able to support local businesses and initiatives while at the same time offering the very best quality produce to meet the exacting standards of Qatar Airways and its passengers.”

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