Over the next year the company will hire almost 1000 pilots to cover the attrition and ex pilots that decided not to come back in addition to a small fleet expansion.
At the moment B777 is still the most short fleet with flights crewed with double Captains due to lack of First-Officers.
There are some extra Airbus planes added for the World Cup from a partner airline but they are leaving the fleet afterwards. Furthermore no planes are joining as new orders are far away.
Whoever wants to join will get their chance in time, take into account over 20000 applications received. The delays are due to various reasons, in the past some people had their joining dates removed to be put on hold for over a year and were asked to do reapply again. Licensing is an issue with many people from Africa and East Asia, these countries have usually long and slow license verification. If you're having a license from an EASA country and verification is fast you'll likely avoid these delays although there are many other reasons to have your date postponed.
Sit back and wait. As an advice don't break your bridges with your previous employer and make sure you can rejoin them in case QR doesn't want you anymore or delays your joining date significantly. There have been pilots who ended up being unemployed trying to join QR.
For those waiting for a result of the interview. Anything over 4 weeks usually you have passed if they didn't give you a reply yet. I have a friend who waited 9 months for the positive outcome thus again just wait...
Last edited by Nachos; 26th Jun 2022 at 18:10.