All but B....it!
This airline and its management are just liars.
Salary is average considering huge inflation (15% for 2007 and 25% for 2006), euro-dollar exchange rate, and amount of flying hours (850 to 900 hours per year with no more overtime!!!) and housing costs;
Crew moral has reached its minimum with MOST pilots willing to LEAVE, a lot actually leaving, at least those able to do so (sorry to say so but most third world countries pilots have no other choices and it has nothing to do with tech standards or personal or individual abilities).
On top of that, what drives each of us as human being which is motivation, progression and respect is completely disregarded and fooled:
-Captains have no more authority on fuel decisions (up to dispatchers) which was the only issue left to them in this airline.
-Worse than that, F/O have no future at all: Interviews still going on but the queue is now longer than the one in lulu supermarket on thursday evening: more than 60 holding in various stages but no training took place for the last 6 months!!!
They just call F/Os for upgrade, make interviews hoping that it will ease their "impatience" and that they will be kept on SBY for indefinite period of time (why should an FO resign while being so close to captaincy). WRONG!!
" you can fool some people sometime but you cannot fool all the people all the time".
The FO shortage will go from bad to worse. The 2 and 3 years old FO are getting more and more disappointed (5 years to upgrade will be official even if it is already the case
).
The funny thing is that an unhappy FO will make an unhappy CPT. Majority of them will leave after 500 to 1000 hours
SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT JOIN QR: YOU WILL REGRET IT whether you are a CPT or FO. Go everywhere but Qatar.
You have many many choices:from far east to sand pit (EK, EY, Air Arabia..) to old europe, many airlines are recruiting and offering many more attractive points and packages than QR.
I even did not mention in this post AAB; no need for that as everything has been said and written about little big man.
Stay away from Tchernobyl!!!!!!
Five stars my .......