Qatar Airways II
 

OK,in the absence of anyone not saying anything positive about QR,how about previous employees who have gone onto far greener pastures?

Best example I can think of is the lovely Brit Emma W who I believe holds a very senior position in a corporate setup in Saudi Arabia.

Hope this is an inspiration to some!

Hey MCTMAN

There are many good examples,

Both Jamie's are also doing very well for themselves as well

Thats just another good example, good company QR could of done very well with some great crew who hae come and gone but unfortunately upper management is a bit to be desired.

FLC

Another thread without the negatives
 

Impossible, surely with this airline.

Word reaches me today of another group, being fired for not being at base before their duty.

A memo has gone out this week, all employees must be in their own accommodation every night regardless of duty, a scan of this memo can be seen if requested.

The airline right now seems hell bent on alienating as many people as possible and making it impossible for crew to lead normal lives or have any sort of life outside of the airline.

At the moment there is an excess of junior staff so they may be just be trying to get the numbers down, but what happens when the airline wants to expand.

It will have such a bad reputation that no one will want to work for them.

Which is kind of a shame, the planes are modern, the routes not too bad and the pay although low is tax free and your flat is free.

Qatar is not heaven on earth by any means and to be honest if you are a single girl aged between 20-30 it really is the last place on earth you would want to live, but its getting better, the City is slowly improving and the infrastructure is falling into place, one day it will be a great little City, hopefully a bit like Dubai but without the infernal traffic.

The problem will be the airline will never be World Class as they just won't attract the type of quality crew needed to keep the airline up to standard.

until Al baker goes there will be no change and I can honestly say that I would not recommend any one joins until he goes, then and only then will the airline be one worth considering.

good post aviduser
Al Baker is the main thing that is stopping this airline reaching for the stars, once he goes and we get a capable and reasonable ceo this will be I believe a fantastic airline. We have great aircraft, great service, a great network, great people and great potential here. Hope that day comes soon.

Dear Cavelino,

The CS I just flew with must be the most senior QR cabin crew. The service she gave to pax on the dead heading flight down was OK. But during the crew brief to come back she knew little?? EVAC, ELT, security codes, restraint training... She was there just to wait on passengers, nothing much more.

Crap training, crap conditions.... crap job!

Being a Cabin Crew member carries a very serious responsibility. If you want to be the best Flight Attendant that you can be please look elsewhere.

CSD's are the most senior crew in QR not CS's. Go to the airlinequailty.com website, most of our passengers feel the service is better than OK.

Did you give her an impromtu SEP exam on the way back then?

Despite all these safety concerns YOU still operated the flight!

Thought you had left and taken your misery with you.

Aviduser :..."city slowly improving....".......really...?, ..CHANGING for sure,.....but IMPROVING....not convinced at all...!:bored:

Note to Cavelino R:
A csd is the most senior crew on a 330 or 300 flight.
A cs is the most senior on a 320.
Duh...
Help! Help! The pilots have infiltrated the cabin crew website!
Can I say "Go back to where you came from" - or would that be considered hateful?

Hi Princess

Just sticking up for you guys.

He/She did say "must be the most senior QR crew".

The most senior QR cabin crew is a CSD.

A CSD rostered as a CS is a CS. And with a staff number less than 260, that's getting close to the most senior. Yeah I did give the crew a thorough briefing and I corrected all the deficiencies I found right there on the spot. Someone has to put an emphasis on safety before service.

Isn't it funny that those who cannot leave are always the ones that convince themselves their crappy job is actually quite lovely??? :ugh:

So lets be clear here because you are not and its a very serious allegation... you picked up all those major deficiencies in her brief to the crew? or you gave her an impromptu SEP exam?

Hmmmm........and here we go again! Thread thrown miles off course.

Loc22550 mate, I have no idea why someone is suggesting that you purchase a dictionary, as your spelling is faultless in the post above.

Never mind.........we should probably ban threads that contain the letter "Q", as it seems to be nothing more than provocation for a whole load of BS to hit the boards from some correspondents.

(Not aimed at 225500, Cavelino or Black Stain, by the way. Whilst internally having differing opinions, at least your posts do contain factual data, guys!!)

I have a genuine question for QR cabin crew (or anyone who happens to have the answer): given that the Boeing 777-300ER will be arriving soon into the fleet, has cabin service and safety training begun yet? Once it does, will there be dedicated Boeing crew, or will all cabin crew be eventually cross-trained to operate on all fleet types?

Thanks,
A300Man

Still, QR has a five star ranking and has received awards for the Best Cabin Crew in the Middle East for five years...

Hmmm.

This is quite an interesting "debate". And, even more remarkable, is that both the correspondents have more or less the exact same style of writing, grammar, lack of use of capital letters, certain consumption of abbreviations.........

Could it be.............NO!!!! What am I thinking!!!!

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if the following Qatar Airways pioneer crew are still around and still flying with the company, or working now in management?? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Asitha (CSD from Sri Lanka)
Dilan Crero (ditto)
Kevin Herft (ditto)
Jude Kandappa (ditto)
Orla Keegan (ditto - Irish)
Maysoon Habayeb (Jordanian, I think)

Thank you in advance.

Is it possible to become a CSD within three years at QR?

And... I miss their old uniform. Their new one is awful!

A 300 Man
 

Asitha (CSD from Sri Lanka) ---CSD
Dilan Crero (ditto)------ CSD
Kevin Herft (ditto)------ CABIN SERVICES INSRUCTOR
Jude Kandappa (ditto)---- PERFORMANCE OFFICER
Orla Keegan (ditto - Irish)----- DUNNO
Maysoon Habayeb (Jordanian, I think)---- CSD

Atleast when i was last there, till feb this year.

Last I heard was that Orla was living in MCT and was a Mum to at least one kiddie........

I heard that 14 cabin crew were terminated yesterday (Sunday) and their were some more today. For not being in accom in time before flights thats nearly 60 to date for the same reason. This man is MENTAL

So I can hardly fail to notice someone has chopped off most of the posts in this thread.
Crew speaking about their lifestyle in Qatar Airways not to be commented upon apparently?
Ok so you may be saying "it was hateful so it had to go"?
Well THIS IS THE PLACE TO WRITE IT.
Its a RUMOUR NETWORK.
The one added recently about the new rules I am particularly sorry to see go, it is pertinent advice to anyone thinking about coming here, and it assuredly wouldnt be disclosed in any interview process.
This STINKS that it has been deleted.
SHAME SHAME SHAME on you moderators. What are you so scared of???

Very good question. Why someone would not feel comfortable if an airline cabin crew rules were openly exposed on a forum?

It is a pity that truth can´t be exposed.

Well, I guess that the original idea of this thread was to write good comments about Qatar Airways but somehow it went of track, I totally agree that the comments should not be deleted and this is an open debate but we must keep in mind the original thread and comment on that, if you guys wanted to write all the nasty things about QR then a new thread should have been created.

Only my opinion as to why some comments are gone, maybe I'm wrong :confused:

Hi I created a new therad! And my message to the moderator! Please don`t delete the truth stories as our aim is to help all ppruners across the whole globe who think of joining QR! We are strong, we are young and we will fight for the truth!!!!!!!!!!!

Well,

I think that instead of opening more and more threads, having all the info in one topic would be easier for both visitors and moderators. I still don´t know if the posts wer deleted because of its content or because this particular topic was only about good things about QR (which by the way, I have read it stands for Quick Resignation).

Truth can not be hid, it´s like !!!!, it always comes up floating. (Direct translation from Spanish, I do not Know if it´s the correct one)

Cheers from BRS

Skating On Very Thin Ice
 

A good thing to say about QR
 

I found a good thing to say about QR: having an experience there will help you find a job somewhere else, in a better company... Hehe...this is what they do: they train people for other companies.
All the best!:p

Hi ok, in my opinion I have to say that as a muslim such as from arabic countries it would not be so difficult to work for Qatar Airways! But for poeple from Europe or somewhere else it might be a bit hard because they have to abandon their normal behaviour such as smoking, drinking, party life, girls and boys........The muslims know the rules in muslim countries and know how to behave in different situations, especially in countrys like Qatar, Saudi Arabia or U.A.E That would make life and work in qatar much more easier for them than christians who were parented a completely different way of life!

One wonders what the average age is of Qatar Airways cabin crew?

I have to say, I stand by my post above - whenever the letter "Q" appears in a thread, the whole thing sinks right into the depths.

Is it a sign of immaturity (arising from a very young and inexperienced workforce, with no real experience of life), OR, is the Company actually REALLY that bad, and hence, driving its people to total despair? (genuine question, so don't start throwing stones and being agressive in any subsequent responses).

Repeated, in case you missed it: Genuine question, so don't start throwing stones and being agressive in any subsequent responses.

The Letter, I just flew Qatar from LHR to BKK and I personally don't understand why Qatar is rated a 5 star airline and how come they get awards for best cabin crew. Most crew members on my flights were unfriendly and did not seem to enjoy their work. One flight attendant - seated in the middle of the cabin, facing passengers - was sleeping on his crew seat during landing! :eek:

Cliff..don´t be suprised,..this is something normal in Qatar airways...:uhoh:
Indeed i´m always impressed by the "smiling" face of the cabin crew going to work here....:ugh:"
But honestly what can you expext when you are only able to recruit desperated people from the far east and you treat them like sh...
In this part of the world, slavery still exist.

Loc22550, that is really sad indeed. I am so happy to work for an airline that has good working conditions :ok:

I noticed the same when i travel with Qatar airways..crew sleeping in their seat during the approach...Not really good for the image of the company...

In the days when QR did DOH-DAC-BKK-MNL most of the crew found it difficult keeping awake by the time we reached BKK! I agree, terrible for the image!

Cheers

HR

I agree that they have very young crew, but they don't even care about making them mature. They just want the image of a very confident crew. Eh, they treat theit pilots the same and they aren't of an average age between 19-25...
All the best!

Hi !

I do not really agree with you about the pilots. They do not have restrcitions that CC are having, and if they got called to the office, it is not because of there hairs or there shirts coming out, or a water not given on time, but for typical technical issues that might have been judged not per company SOP, and here we are talking about aircraft piloting, and maybe about technical aircraft limitation that could lead eventually to incidents/accidents, if not properelly opperated, and I can give you a lot of exemples if you wish me to do so.

Back to the Cabin Crew, HAPPY AT LAST resumed perfectelly the situation. Thus, it is exactelly the reality that the company continue to ignore. Money can make you doing a lot of stupid things as you can see, and that BIG FEAR is just groing among there crews, and it's really a shame to see that it starts directelly from there AB INITIO Cours. I remember when we were all laughing ironically when during a breifing, a crew used to say " here sinc XXX, still enjoying ! " Boy ! What a lier you are :}

Anyway, it's an experiance that somone has to pick, and leave, because I do not think that sombody can stick to QR CC career for a long time.

I worked three and a half years at QR and enjoyed most of the time. Fantastic layovers. Made fantastic friends. Lived in a nice flat in Doha (although Doha was very dull). But yes, it was a very different environment with a their way or the highway policy. No mistakes. Constantly watched by someone. Settling in to a muslim country can also be difficult, let it be if you are from Asia, Europe as me or somewhere else. And yes, many people were unfairly and disgustingly treated (some of my friends included) by the management. When I joined I didn't know what to expect and made the best out of it which worked fine for me.

I didn't know QR employ people who are 19 years old? I would have thought at least 20 according to the law of Qatar?

:)

May I please direct your attention to the forum,
Passengers and SLF.
There you will find a thread running on jolly old Qatar and why it is not a five star airline.
:eek:

A300MAN,


Could it be half a dozen of one and six of the other,perhaps?

Wrong
 

"qatar airways is the best for me because you have many opportunity to succed and be pride of your job :ok: be easy "

Well you are totaly wrong dude ... no comments.