Qatar Airways beneath the gloss
As flight deck at Qatar I can confirm 27 flight deck have left the airline since the start of 2003, I have also heard a figure of 87 cabin crew who have departed during the month of November.
Do not be fooled by the cosmetics at Qatar Airways, they are very good at spending lots of money on presentation but underneath the makeup it’s a third world airline in every sense of the word.
Staffs, in particular ground and cabin staff are treated in an appalling and what would be ILLEGAL manner in most countries. I have heard ground staff being racially abused by the CEO of this airline in the galley of an aircraft in front of first class passengers. Dozens of pages on here I could fill with stories of what amounts to no more than modern day slavery.
As an A320 or A300 pilot with Qatar Airways you will be worked to the maximum, fatigued by a growing shortage of pilots and a hopeless, useless and incompetent rostering department, the A330 will go the same way next year. There are no thanks for your efforts from an increasingly spineless flight ops management who do or say NOTHING without the approval of a man who has no technical qualifications whatsoever, the CEO.
People here are tense, frightened, insecure, bullied, undervalued, underpaid, stressed and taken very personally by an airline that could not operate anywhere else in the developed world in the manner that it does here.
If you are contemplating the move to Qatar from somewhere else think very carefully, the money is well below average, the working atmosphere is terrible, the rosters = fatigue, there is zero respect for our profession and the special job that we do. Most are looking for a way out and the resignations will only snowball into the New Year. Qatar Airways is sinking further into the brown stuff by the minute and everybody here knows it except the CEO, but will anybody tell him……
Akbar Al Baker you stupid, stupid, shortsighted man.