Qatar Airways is expected to have access to 3 contingency routes over international waters in early August, after delegates at a UN-led meeting Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift with its neighbours. The closed-door meeting with the UN aviation agency's governing council in Montreal discussed contingency routes that had been planned as part of a preliminary agreement reached earlier this month, but not yet opened to Qatar-registered planes. Qatar had asked the ICAO to intervene after its national carrier was denied access to the airspace of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates as part of economic sanctions "Within a week or so they should have new routes," said a source. <br/>