Welcome to this episode of Talking Points. Today we have the VP of Global Marketing

and In-flight entertainment and connectivity of Qatar Airways, Babar Raman.

So we'll essentially become the only airline with full feet of broadband connectivity on board.

That's ahead on this episode of Talking Points right after this.

Babar, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, Brian, nice over here.

Now I've got a very important question

because it's going to set the

tone for the whole podcast. I've been told it's Qatar, some people say Qatar, I've

been told the real way to say it is with some sort of grumble in the throat what is the actual way to say your

airline let's settle it now so the actual way to say is Qatar

Qatar Airways I mean that's in the dialect how you would say the Qatar.

But of course you know somehow it might be difficult to pronounce for some

accents so you can also call an English we call it Qatar.

Qatar.

And Qatar area.

So people can call it whatever they want as long as they're booking

plane tickets on the airline. On one of the best airlines on the planet. So did you

always know that you wanted to get into the aviation business? Has this been a

career dream of yours? Well to be honest with you I wanted to be a pilot and that's how it all began.

But for some reason or the other I was not able to finish pilot school so I decided okay I might as well go into management

and I finished of courses in my bachelor's and actually So I decided, okay, I might as well go into management.

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