Qatar Airways CE Ali Al Baker says a planned Doha-Atlanta route, scheduled to begin June 1, would “rub salt in the wounds” of Delta. Al Baker taunted his airline’s most vocal adversary Wednesday by saying that a decision to fly to Atlanta would ‘rub salt in the wounds’ of Delta Air Lines but denied it would cause the airline harm. Qatar, which continues to expand rapidly, will begin daily Doha-Boston Wednesday, March 16. Boston will be its ninth US destination and will be served with an Airbus A350 XWB. Philadelphia, where service began Jan 1, also has A350 service, and a second daily flight to New York Kennedy International will begin April 1: it too will be served by an A350. The Atlanta route will have a Boeing 777-200LR. Delta ended Atlanta-Dubai service Feb 11. <br/>