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Ground Staff unload a Qatar Airways Ltd. aircraft parked at Chiang Mai International Airport in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017. Qatar Airways launched its new direct service from Doha to Chiang Mai today. The new seasonal service will operate 4 times a week with a flight time of just over six hours. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/BloombergPhotographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg

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By Nick Wadhams and Michael Sasso

January 28, 2018 at 11:40 PM UTC

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Qatar Airways will commit to greater financial transparency and will not run any indirect flights to the U.S. through other countries as part of an agreement with the Trump administration addressing U.S. carriers’ accusations that their Gulf competitors get unfair government help.

Airlines are hailing the agreement as a victory, if not a complete one, in one of the biggest trade disputes in U.S. history. They’ve estimated that Qatar gave $17 billion or more to Qatar Airways over a 10-year period.