QR 777 FO here, currently flying.
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3. Is anyone aware if QA has pilots who are currently in Doha still fired?
Heard nothing for quite a few weeks now.
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immapostthis
5. Rehiring will be on a experience based process, apparently NOT FLEET BASED... Which can make a tiny bit of sense, since the 330 guys for example were experienced but can now return even though the 330 is gone. But this will obviously create some issues within the pilot community. Knowing akbar airlines.... some stupidity will occur to anger most people.
Re-hiring process is shady as ****. When they have 330 guys fired, still sitting in Doha with RP, they are calling people from outside. The people coming back will need to go through the process of immigration and quarantine but still they don't call back the guys already in Doha. QR logic as it's best.
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immapostthis
7. As always mentioned 777 NEED pilots! Cargo department are begging for cargo to be moved. They have the birds on ground, but no one to fly it.
Rumor is we're at lest 200 pilots short. Commercial is coming to fleet with new contract and fleet doesn't have the man power, so we can't accept the contract. (Rumor) Latest one were virgin Atlantic and Amazon out of china.
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9. 350 pilots are flying an unbelievable amount. Their rosters have been published late, because QA scheduling are struggling to keep planes in the sky. 350 pilots can expect to have an increase in hours from now! I can also confirm some older guys are leaving, because the work is getting way too much.
350 is getting worse. But 777 is much worse than 350. 777 roster was published 3 days after the 350, which was way after the OMA/QCAA deadline. Roster changes started coming in with the roster. Today is 7th i had already more than 10 roster chnages.
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immapostthis
.11. 787 Heard nothing really.
787 guys transfered to 777 around 80 of them. Some are already flying. They also transfered some 350 to 777 but training will take more time.
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immapostthis
13. India and their massive C19 problem is a significant problem for QA.
Speaking with my colleagues in the cabin, numbers and situation is worse than what was reported in the news. An other problem, countries started to ban crew who's been in India to enter. This may create more issues for QR and India.
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immapostthis
14. QA currently needs pilot and CC. It is not the stories people on this forum said months ago, that QA will need crew... that time has passed, and now they NEED crew. They are massively understaffed! This is going to cause a negative feedback loop. (In a few months time, someone should quote this here for me)
Negative loop is already there. When they just got 80 787 transfered, they have 60 777 people on notice period.
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immapostthis
With the currently lack of crew, and the significant demand, the only option for them is to overwork the current pilots and CC, this will result in the exhaustion of the current workforce they have; resulting the the frustration and 'loss' (leave) of those who they currently have. Making the gap between the 'availability of crew' to 'demand of crew' bigger resulting in more over worked and more leaving increasing the gap even more. ( Negative feedback loop)
777 is already overworked to an unbelievable extend. Leaves of May and June cancelled for 30%.
Most people on 777 didn't get any leaves since last February. We had 1 or 2 forced leaves last year, after 3 days (minimum rest) they were calling us back to fly.
Remaining leave balance from 2020-21 has been payed (even if that's totally illegal in regard of HR policy and Qatar labour law).
If it wasn't for factoring many FO will be way above the maximum EASA flight limit. Should say limitS as in monthly, yearly both calendar and last 30/365 days.
Moral is low on 777, anger is very high.
Some people didn't see their family for more than a year now.
Wellness department (psychologists) are receiving more and more pilots. They tried to warn fleet. Fleet disregard those warning.
Only way now to get your leaves is to go see those shrinks and tell them that you cannot fly anymore. This may jeopardize your license but is the only wat right now.
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What is going on in HR is they are walking on tip-toes.
HR is the biggest **** up in QR history, they should all burn in hell. Rumor is AB is very angry at them, curious to see what's gonna happen.
An other (confirmed) rumor which may also have implications, ministry of finance Ali Shareef al-Emadi (who's also QR chairman) is under arrest for suspected misuse of public funds and abuse of power. May have impact on QR ?