longest serving qr
 

Thanks.. we definitely had some great time there, pulling our hairs but sorting out finally.
Think with all the QR bashing going around, this thread definitely brings out some great moments. 12 years is a lifetime to be spent working together.
cheers
John

This thread is incomplete without at least one reference to the superbly ice-cool and level-headed diamond, Laura Diamond.....................

A300 Man, ah indeed...good call.

Marissa was there when I left in 2001.

Chic Dolly, I was there 96-01.

John, well it still disgusts me what goes on with QR but the fact remains that we all have had some fabulous laughs and times there.

And who could forget the Tunisian gang: Soheil, Lotfi, Gadoor etc!!! What about Yasin, Shk Hamad's snitch!!??

I'll never forget Shk Hamad offloading a pax in Cairo who was abusive to a Kuwaiti woman. Or his approach into KRT during a sandstorm!

And what about Hussein!!?? Mr.Offload!! Snow white and the seven trolleys!!

Ha ha,

Cheers

HR

BTW, we are travelling on QR on the 28th LGW DOH CEB....anyone on there?

Cheers

HR

yasin and some more
 

Oh yes... how could we forget yasin.... the one man show at crewing. He would return from Canada after a holiday... and be straight at office.. he would know the schedule thoroughly., AIMS was in his head. but of course.. he had a huge flip side crew loathed most of the times. Samir who was with him is still around.
Anybody remembers Mario Spinola at dispatch??
The Sri Lankan CSD.. i am really sorry I forget her name....who was among the first batch with Saira, Kevin, Ashu and off course Poly
We all forget one name who has been there from the begining and who is still around - Mohsen Tabibi.
Capt Bougherara... remember the tail door flip open on the 727 while take off??
Capt Khaid Ibrahim... 727 guy and then later on the 320... God knows what happened later.. he is now in flight ops.
John

do i know u
 

homesick.. sorry.. do i know u.... john

Yes you do!! Look at the flag undr my name...that should give you a clue!!

I remember Mario.

Is it Chandani you are asking about? In NZ I believe and had a baby. Recall the Boogie incident, Tabibi of course.

Captain Khalid, great guy.

Cheers

HR

chandani
 

Thanks.... yes it was Chandani... nice girl

The Sri Lankan pioneering female CSD's:

Chandani ("Chan")
Nilkanthi ("Nillie" - still there)
Harshini ("Harshi" - was actually a CS, but still one of the early ones)


(Ach, Homesick, you have just beaten me to it!! Your post just nipped-in before mine. I had no idea that blue thing under your name was a flag!)

Chandani is now in Oman, by the way and, yes, just had a baba.

Others......Tracy / Leigh / Denise / Mary-Clare / Jamie-1 / Jamie-2 / Joanna / Nicola / Del-Nawaz / Annah / Monika (Austrian?) / Zeenat / Laura Diamond / Laura Diamond / Laura Diamond / Laura Diamond......and.......Laura Diamond.

Can you guess which one was my favourite??

good luck
 

Thanks ... I am just taking a deserved couple of months off.. be with my mom.. and then back to the grind.

Didn't that happen on descent into Kuwait? I seem to remember that they couldn't get the aft airstairs to close, so they flew all the way back to Doha, and the airstair door got damaged during landing. :ooh:

727
 

I remember this.. it all began with a door open warning on ground in DOH,,, followed by clearing it as false alarm... then on take off noticed by ground staff but ac continued to Kuwait.. but later dediced to return to DOH..

ChicDolly,

That flight was bound to AMM. On September 14, 2000.

ChicDolly...who would forget Houda Chentouf???

and those crew who loves to go straight to Akbar after the flight...like Sawsan Habayeb, another Houda (can't remember her family name)...reports to Akbar about the flight and twist the story so they put the CSD in trouble...
but eventually they have paid the price of being evil...

Never heard of that Chowdhurry...maybe after I left???

-Chandani was in NZ and now moved to MCT with family.


-Soheil just got married in Tunisia and returned to the hotel manager job in DXB.


-Harshani moved from Rome to CMB with family.Hubby flying for Sri Lankan Airlines as an FO.


-and....that was (yet again) :D Susan Al Awak who was the CS in the B 727 aft stair way incident at take off......IT TOOK PLACE EX DOH!!


-A 300 man,.....u seem to have a very soft spot for Miss Diamond ??? she was just fabulous,indeed!


-Homesick : were u on that flight ( LGW/CAI/DOH) when SHK Hamad kicked the man off and threw his bags too,outta plane when there was some sort of issue???....I was there too! Gosh...I ve been everywhere!!!!:ugh:
and I also heard about El Khair.is he the cabin crew manager in that new airline??


Chick, I remember Arthemus (mis) very well...jeeeeez,I hated to fly with her.waste of space!...and ofcourse how could u not remember BOMB THREAT HOUDA!!!?.:D


-and the CSD on that hijacking flight incident was Nilie.flight was heading for AMM,but ended in Al hail in Saudi.who was that British guy???...I just cant recall his name!

Houda was CC Recruitment Assistant around 2003.

What happened to Zelda Eramus, Raffella Berti (I think she continued on being Premium Lounge Manager?).

You are not referring to Houda Toufik (CS), are you?

by the way,Marisa cordova is flying for AA in LA she also has a filipino food outlet there.and polly Irani is in Houston TX.


No...it wasn't Houda Toufik, the other Houda ....Chentouf (???).



Does anyone have any info about Maya Nimor ???...anybody here did Air Afrique chaters?

hahahahahaha.....that plastic babe was Isane!...but she did not go to Gulf air.the morroccan who went to Gulf Air was Nadia Dnuane.


Steve Samuel was a drama queen alright..:D todate he thinks he speaks Arabic!....but a good soul !!

spot on Chick!....that was Martin Moore...Good lad he was !

yes, I was referring to Houda Toufik, she was one of those crew who went to Akbar directly after the flight...and have caused trouble to a CSD...

God I have not had such a good laugh in ages, nearly fell off my chair p1..ing myself laughing at all those stories and those names bring back such memories.
Leigh D...........twins / copper
marie-claire married 2 possibly 3 kids?
Claudine married believe still in the middle east
Fiona M UK,
Mark & Mandy last seen in sharm ?
Jayne still in doha i think
Orla K ditto married 2 kids ?
Jamie 1 UK flying corporate
Jamie 2 CAPTAIN uk airline
Joanna S EK training?
Nichola R UK Corporate
Denise (south african married a copper last heard)
Faye L UK
Julie N EK
Louise last heard of in Doha
Kate M UK
Claire J and her brother unknown
Bev married was in uk
Sonya uk (anyone remember what her flatmates name was)
Natasha H uk married
Sue-ellen Married couple kids
Anna Married Dubai
Caroline corporate auh
Maria R still in middle east i hear
Martin M Doha
Cora D Spain
Jane R UK
Lisa R UK corporate
Jackie Cus scotland
Linda P middle east 2 kids married
Caroline G the french girl

who was the british girl with the squeeky voice, anyone remember her, cant for the life of me remember her name. anyone remember riyad T, what happened to him after he blew the slide sort of in DXB? anyone remember his british girfriend, she is still flying corp but cant remember her name
oh and last of all how about Neil F, he is still there and working in sep and still flying been there about 10 years now.
More stories more stories, god that brings back such good times, and was great having such a laugh at some of the old names.

Really?

B727 OM procedure:

Aft airstairs NOT up, warning light.

Inflight, if the airstairs are accessible, F/E is required to check them. If they aren't up, upon reaching traffic pattern altitude, accomplish the depressurization procedure and then attempt to close them.

Shouldn't have been a problem if B hydraulic system was OK.

But they continued on to Kuwait with them open??? :ooh:

Chainsaw, that incident is 100% factual and caused quite astir as you can imagine!

Flightlevelchange: lots of names there! Riadh Tlili I heard was in DXB. Sarah was the girlfriend's name I think?

To add to your list: Mr and Mrs HR - UK two kids, Mrs HR housewife, Mr.HR running Civil Aviation sector for Farnborough Aerospace Consortium and has his own Consultancy.

Jamie M, which airlirne? Any idea?

Cheers

HR

Another golden oldie: Dominic Cashin - working for Easy Jet out of LTN, living in Cambridge with his wife, Bettina (ex QR) who is working at Cambridge Uni whilst studying for her Phd!

Cheers
HR

It's no wonder the airstair thing raised some eyebrows!

The emergency evacuation in Bangladesh did too. It's not normal 'practice' to have to do an emergency evacuation after a birdstrike on takeoff. Unless you are going VERY fast when you decide to do it, and very bad things happen as a result (which they did on that occasion as I remember).

I worked in the Gulf in the early days of Qatar Airways. I travelled with them a lot, and trips up to London on the old B747-100 SR81's were great. I always thought that the cabin crew in those early days were real 'stars' of the airline.

You really deserved better treatment than you got, and are still getting these days by the sounds of things.

Chainsaw,

Must have seen you on board considering I was the only jock cabin crew in those days!!

Be interesting to travel with QR to the Phils next week!

Cheers

HR

Chainsaw,
As I can very well remember,B 7272 did not continue on that flight to wherever it was heading to.

Air craft returned to feild....it happend at take off. maybe Suzan Al awak was too heavy at the back! :p....she always ran to AFT for a quick ciggie before the service!

and guys what about Miss Patel?? remember Saida??...she is in RUH with NAS.

Flight levelchange-Good list of names,buddy!...brings back so many memories again!

Anybody remember Mandy Ensor's Manchester style PA'? :D

So BKK, pity you can't be on our flight! Still will be fun to see Dilan!

Saida, remember a great MNL layover, one week, with her...actually Dilan was on that too! Mohd Jalal had to borrow money to pay his bill because he had spent all his money elsewhere! LOL!;):oh:

Here, you musy have lots of days off!!

Cheers

HR

HR,I dont have much off time,but I am either in an internet cafe down route or with my note book in the hotel room.....not many friends these days...those days are gone buddy!

and I just got the name of Riadh T's girl friend..that was Sarah Pollington!

I hear Kareem Achek is at Emirates and very religious.given up drinking and stuff.

any news from Nelson Asabi?

Ah, Kareem....always turning up for work and you could bever be sure if he had been drinking or not! Caught him once about to have a drink on board. I walked out the galley and said, "Your choice...drink it or throw it!" He got scared and threw it.

Is Anis still around? Still with Dilnawaz? What about Brian Lobo?

Cheers,

HR

I had to register only to comment on this. Fantastic thread! Although most of you lot seems to be QR pioneers from the 90's!

Houda (HC) was of a very certain character! Still there when I left 2003. She did have her moments. Is she still floating about?

Is Joachim Sancher (F/O A320) still there? Stephane Magnin?

Emma (Ex QR CSD)

Thanks Emma!

BTW Josefina Ylagan now owns 3 coffee shops in MNL!! Way to go!!

Cheers

HR

haha god this is bring back the memories

vicky now married and in UK flying for BA longhaul out of LHR

was it roachel you were thinking of who married chocolate jamie lol, saw her in dubai with a couple of kids married after she left Bah Royal Flt.

Saida working out of RUH on some private op, not heard a word on where laura is or what she is upto anyone know.

Sarah P, working for some corp outfit married last year i think, in UK

oh the good old days, think they were the best times.

I want all you,"the pioneer crew" back in DOH-QATAR for just ONE hell of a looooong flight! :ok:

Just to get drunk,laugh and jumpship before end of last sector to Do-Ha! :eek: :D :ugh:

****al and Gilly were not the only married couple who were working at QR. There were many more husband and wife teams who flew as cabincrew. I don't know if they are still there, but what happened to the following:

Antoinette and Roderick ('Bong')
Mandy and Mark
George and Nadeeka
Errol and Joanne
Ravi and Jennifer
Junaid and ????? (can't remember his wife's name)
Kevin and Gillian
Terence and Sophie

BKK,

Missed those 747 days...DOH-DAC-BKK-MNL...26 hours layover in Manila...with Maya the CSD, the filipinos could hardly open their eyes...lol...were not allowed to rest...:ouch:

Vitto,

It was hell,but we enjoyed it,didnt we?

on one of those flights I remember Ben Girat trying to teach me how to heat meals and got told off by me.he never sighted the galley! ;)

anyone know what happened to Adel the trainer?

Remember the crew parties in Katmandu, down by the pool, drinking to the small hours and partying.

Sandra W, still with ek

Anyone remember Marie's (housing officer) daughter, cant for the life of me remember her name, what happened to her, and whats she upto, did hear she went to a corp job in saudi.

Caroline G (french girl) anyone in touch with her.

What about Natalia (ex QR ground staff London) went out with Mo the F/O now capt, is she still there, walking around the malls with an abaya on lol

FLC

Adel is a service trainer at EY.

Sandra wood is at EK.

Diana Hall?