Qatar Airways
 

Hi everybody,

this is very important, can somebody please help me and give me some information!
I just saw on the website of Qatar Airways, that they are planning some Open Days in a couple of cities. I am thinking about going to the one in Warsaw on January 20th. I am from Germany, so I have to arrive one day earlier and stay at a hotel in order to be on time to the interview.
Now my question: is it right, that I don`t need an invitation for this Open Day? Because I don`t want to travel that far and then they send me away because I am not invited!
2. question: can anybody tell me anything about the Open Day? Is it like the Open Day at Emirates?

Aliyyah

Qatar open day?
 

Is Qatar Airways planning to have a open day in Australia?

Hi Ayilahh!
What happened with ANA? Did you start flying with them?
Regarding Qatar Airways, I dont know if you have read the previous posts regarding this airline. There are lots of them, but no one speaks good about this airline. If you´re looking 4 a job in the Middle East, everybody suggests to choose Emirates in the first place.

:hmm:
Just had a fairly exhaustive search through the back pages and have to admit the Qatar sounds abyssmal when it comes to the way in which they treat their cabin crew.
However, for passengers they offer such tempting goodies as two for one deals, especially in FC or BC and one is actually about to buy tickets on Qatar for quite a long series of flights. The routes are in fact serviced by another carrier (neither Emirates nor Gulf nor even BA) but the seating in business on this carrier is nothing like that available on QA, whose praises have often been sung to the rafters by those acquaintances who have flown with them.
There is no fun to be gained in travelling, especially when paying full whack for one's own tickets, on a long haul flight with a persecuted cabin crew; neither would one want to be flown by an unhappy flight deck crew.
Without wishing to start a QA slanging match, can anyone either reassure this little passenger as to the sybaritic comforts of the airline and the excellence of its flight crew or, of course, dissuade him from travelling on this carrier?
For the benefit of those who only frequent the cabin crew forum, this is neither a journalist enquiry nor a management fishing expedition. Reference to other posts by cavortingcheetah will elicit a wide ranging series of points of view, some rather more controversial than others but all taken with good intent even if the tongue is sometimes somewhat stuffed firmly in the cheek.:)

Oh Howay Ye Slag!!!

Iv said it before and Ill say it again....GIVE QATAR AIRWAYS A WIDE BERTH!

I got a job offer with ANA but I didn`t take it. It`s because I didn`t wanted to be based in LHR. Somehow I am starting to regret my decision now, because if had accepted the offer I would be in training with them right now, and they are a very good airline!
My favourite airline is absolutely Emirates! I went to an Open Day twice, but unfortunately didn`t make it through, so now I want to try other Middle Eastern Airlines, like Qatar Airways and Gulf Air.

I see a lot of posts, but nobody really answered my question. So can I go to the Open Day in Warsaw without an invitation?

well, if it is an open day, then anybody can just show up! good luck!

Xtra crew is right, dont need the invitation to an Open day at Qatar Airways. I am just arrived from Warsaw recruitment campaign and waiting for email from them. If here is somebody from Warsaw Open Day , please give know!

QR Recruitment
 

I recently attended a QR open day.
It was the shoddiest and worst organised event i have ever attended. The recruiters did not know what to do with the surplus crowd that had turned up, were themselves extremely ill groomed, and were so unprofessional.
The language used was incorrect, horribly wrong. At one point, the recruiter was screaming -"please sit down!, or i will throw your CV away!"
of course, they showed us videos etc, and everytime she was asked a question about the housing, curfew, allowances, she kept saying that it depends on the discretion of the CEO.
was extoling the CEO in every second sentence!
Me thinks the place is run by a queen bee...and very shady...
i for one am glad i am with EK, first airline i applied for, and made it..

Steer well clear.

They have just asked one of their longest serving and most loyal CSDs to resign because of her age!!?? No offer of a ground job or anything. No consideration or compassion yet again.

Hey, but this happens all the time there.

Cheers

HR

I should have gone to Qatar! :{

so where are you now QRCC2B?

QRC2BB....What are you basing that statement on??? Do you think you would have been happy in Qatar??? If so why???? You seem an intelligent person yet you have read all that is said here about Qatar Airways and still seem to be under the dilusion that it is the holy grail of airlines!

apaddyinuk, I'm in touch with several people from my interview and they don't think it's that bad (they have been there for about a year and a half now). At least I would have got flying experience which had made it easier to get another job back here home.

ekkru, I'm home!

They dont think its "that bad"!!!!! Well that says it all really as clearly they acknowledge that it is to a level "bad"!!!
Well with someone who has a family member working for the airline (and I myself have worked for them) I can assure you that it is indeed worse now than it ever was even in my time. No you would not have had a better chance of getting another flying job if you had started with Qatar Airways.
No disrespect but if you cannot get a job now as crew it probably just means that you do not have the qualities required. Sure Qatar Airways would probably accept you because they regularly scrape the barrel but your lack of skills will still show through at any later interview/assessment which you may attend in later years.
I do hope that what I am saying to you makes some sense to you and please do not think I am trying to be critical of you as an individual, that is not my intent. But please lose your obsession with this airline because it will do you no favours. If you do go down there you will only end up hating flying altogether.
LISTEN TO THE OTHERS ON HERE WHO HAVE GOTTEN OUT!!!

Not that bad according to what some people have written on the board! They do say it's very stricht with many regulations, but yet bearable because otherwise they never would have stayed that long (a few of them are not bonded nor supporting their families. They could as well go home and get a new job with no difficulties).

And, in my home country it's nearly impossible to get a flying job if you haven't got any flying experience. Previous experience will shorten down the training and that saves the airlines a lot of money. For instance, two airlines in my country are recruiting at the moment (around 50 positions), both requiring previous experience. Another airline recruited a couple of weeks ago, previous experience also required. Perhaps it's different in the UK and other countries but not where I come from.

That's what I meant with getting the experience if I had gone to join QR. And they are very selective and I don't think they selected me because they needed me. In my interview, they eliminated around 30 people after the first round, leaving more or less 20 left to do the personal interview (even less were actually offered the job). This was the afternoon session and I heard they eliminated about the same from the morning session!

Not critising you either and I appreciate your comments!

Hi there guys,

I am a crew and I have flown Qatar Airways as a passenger many a times. I am actually part of their frequent flyer programme. I heard lots of negative feedback from the QR crew all the time. They moan and complain all the time when I hear them doing their galley talk. Moaning about how strict the company is and one of them actually said that she feels like she is still in junior high with all the regulations the company imposes. Most of them agreed to it. Its funny the things you hear when you are passengering and the fact that they do not know that I am crew for another airline. In my opinion, I think they run like an Asian airline stuck in the Mid East.

Just my thoughts.....