Chill with all the bold highlighting and underlining and shouting buddy, it's a "rumor" network.
So let's have an intelligent debate about this "rumor" that 7 captains got fired in the last few days.
Now I have heard the rumor confirmed by other sources than PPRUNE, although I don't know the people involved.
Nevertheless, and purely as a discussion point, I have never ever heard of any large flag-carrier airline anywhere in the world, sacking so many captains all at the same time. Especially at a time when they are desperately short of captains and have lowered their upgrade requirements under this "fast track" scheme.
Now, and once again purely as a discussion point, in most airlines you have to do something pretty serious as a captain to get sacked. Endanger the aircraft, screw up really really badly on multiple consecutive sim checks, something like that. In 99% of cases it's safety related anyway, or someone who has a long history of insubordination / incompetence / bad CRM.
That hasn't always been the case at QR, just to remind you of a few of the more famous terminations there in recent years. The guy who married his GF against CEO's wishes. The guy who went sick on leave. The "Evian" episode. The two guys who had the minor incident on pushback in DXB. All confirmed cases, I know personally the people involved in 3 of those.
I'm not discussing the rights and wrongs of those particular cases but I am saying that they are all cases where "safety" was not really affected but good, competent captains were terminated regardless.
And I'm also saying, that this is a pattern of behaviour that is probably seen only at QR of all the major airlines on this earth.
So rather than throwing around emotive words like "fear mongering" and trying to shout down all who ask about these things, I'd like to know what is your opinion of why these latest 7 guys got chopped? Even if it's just a rumour?
There can only be two options : either they did something serious and safety related, or, they didn't.
One option paints QR as an airline with some pretty serious safety issues, ... the other one ... well I'm sure you can figure that one out yourself.
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