Some really interesting topics have been touched here...
What can destruct QR at this stage:
1) An incident......one of those and the Qatari dream is over! I am glad to say that from the training departments out the people are trying to raise the level of some of the incompetents flying around here!!! They try but as long as QR does not bring up its package, offered to both Cockpit and cabin crews, they will continue to attract low skilled people only! Asian and European markets are picking up and allready we can see a lot of the good guys leaving! Its only a matter of time before all the good guys will be gone and then what....The basket cases stay off course with the known result! Unless they are willing to change their offer!
2) The press. They are just waiting for an information leak from within the company! They live on other peoples remains....we all know that! And right now the managment and AAB are pissing so many people off that this leak is just bound to occur once! And then the slightest mistake will get blown out of proportion with catastrophal results!
3) The personnel.....see all of the above!
Concerning fleet utilisation......it is true! An A300 is a MH High density airplane designed to fly routes between 30mins and 4 hours! Off course it can handle longer flights but just look at the penalties then! The same goes for the 320! And the 330 has never been designed to fly DOH/DXB as well!
They should straighten this up!
Regarding the service on board being just avreage...I have to strongly disagree on that! The service in business and first is just perfect! Eco is a bit less but then again, do not expect miracles to happen for free!
I know the QR managment is reading these forums, including AAB and I can only hope that they will make conclusions out of these reports....I hope I hope I hope!!!!
The fact that there has been a lot of commotion around QR lately should ring a bell in the tower!!! You dont see this comming from EK crew for example.....
QR is a good airline with loads of potential that deserves to live!!