QR Longest Serving Staff Member?
 

As an ex QR employee who lasted over 5 years, I just wondered who you might believe to be the longest serving QR staff member that you know of? It is NOT SK btw!

I'll go for, if they are still there, TS in ops or S in crewing.

Purely a bit of fun.

Cheers

HR

I know that when I was there, there were a number of crew who had joined the company from the very beginning...yes...the pre Al Bakar days when things were good and a money swindling alcoholic pilot Shiekh ran the airline!!! Or so the story goes! :}

Of the "onboard" team, I believe that NP and MB (Sri Lankan and Filipina respectively) are perhaps longest serving cabin crew. And both of them excellent too!

(You will both know these two females that I am referring to.)

A300 Man, ah there you are! NP yes....MB? Bizarrely both me and the Mrs have had a mental block on that one!?

Paddy, yep things were good in them days! Although some of the crew (most of them gone) took advantage of the "relaxed" lifestyle. I remember being in the Ramada after a flight with two clear days off ahead of me. Crew were in there on standby!! Don't know if they have recovered the bar top but you can clearly see names engraved on there!! LOL! It was fun and NO hassles!

Even SK had his A£$e kicked by the Cabin Crew Manager!

BTW I am still in touch with H Al T. I know him from EK days.

Cheers

HR

Greg Epps. He's well over five years, surely.

Good call. I didn't realise he was still there. Well over 5 years now.

QR Longest Serving Staff
 

Does the office boy count? You need to go back to January 1994.

Fractional,

Yes!!! Mohmen!? The tea boy...is that who you mean? Although I still think Samir in crewing is a strong possibility or Arnie in IT/Marketing?

Hey what about Alain Khafaje (permanent SFS)?

I am sure "I am Mobeen" would have been a contender if he hadn't defragmented the system during a back up saving process!!

Nice one,

Cheers

HR

Homesick:

MB = Miss Balthazar!!!!!!! I can't believe you forgot all about Melinda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alain Khafage - he's still here! And still SFS.

A300Man

I visited DOH several times from the very start of the airline and I met quite a number of people. I lost touch with loads of them.
However it strikes my brain archives that there might be a dispatcher still there and I believe, if he is still there, he is the first company despatcher. I thought he had left, but I was told around 6 months ago that the guy is still there. The tea boy, however, may well be his senior because the founder had a guy who used to serve (loads of) tea and coffee up to intoxication.

A300 Man:

I am humbled! Of course!!! MB could well be.

Fractional:

Tim Shanny has been there since the beginning I THINK, then Iftikhar who I knew at EK, but I thought he had left, or are you talking about the Sri Lankan chap...can't recall his name. A300 Man might...?

Interesting.

Cheers for all the responses.

HR

Homesick Rae, the Sri Lankan chap is definitely Indian. I do not remember coming across any Sri Lankan in Dispatch during the first 2 years.
Does anyone know the wheabouts of a guy I met several times (GF, CX and QR) called ...... McCreedy (perhaps not the best spelling)? Tks.

Fractional,

Brian McCreadie? When he left QR he went back to CX. Might still be there.

Cheers

HR

Brian McCreadie, that's him. Tks. His brother was a DJ with Radio Bahrain. We could get the radio across the Gulf proper in those very hot and humid days/nights. I can still get it, but there is some interference from another station with a (very) close freq.
Going back to the topic "QR Longest Serving Staff", I just got news of the guy's name I was referring to. He is known as Shiva(das) or Siva(das) and I got to know the guy is still there. He was the first dispatcher and probably one of the few pioneers left serving QR to date. Any other name(s)?

goodness!

Brian MacCreadie's name brings back so many other names - past and present - some of whom I honestly have no idea if they are still there or not!! But, names which were (are) synonymous with the inception and establishment of Qatar Airways as a really good carrier:

Joyce Brennan / Arni Fornolles / Diana Hall / Nafees Ali Amin / Ruby Lionel / Mohammed Jalal / Saleh Haroon / Mark Turner / Simon Sassine / Peter and Jamal (the telephone operators in the main building) / Archie D'Mello / Faye Waterman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (eye shadow diva) / Mamma Jo / Greg Epps / "Bernard" / Rosalina Fahmi / Yuva Bhatia.............

Is MJ still in welfare dept?

I just cant belive all you Ex QR staff and Qatar Airways fans forgot our good old Khalid Jaziri! :)
Also together with NP,Kevin Hurft too joined the company almost at the same time.
As for Brain McCreadie : As far as I remember,He left for Florida-USA with wife (Ex.WF officer-Viv) and kids,for good.
Homesick : man,you come out with some good Threads,I must say!:D

BKK,

Cheers.

Just a bit of fun but it's got us all thinking.

Mark Turner is with DNATA. Saw him in DXB last year and he turned his nose up at me!LOL!Was recently seen on the "Where Are They Now" forum...albeit briefly. Check the responses and you'll understand why!

Saleh Haroon with Miss Egan. Rosalina asked to leave because of her age!? What about her value to QR???

Joyce and I go way back to EK days in the 80s. She was Purser on my flight over to DOH with Sheikh Hamad as Captain. I remember we'd brought on some Vodka and were being supplied with all the tonic/soda and ice we needed!

Arni is still there and we are in touch.

Others operating were Haydee Pangan, Alain, Dominic Cashin (now with Easyjet @ LTN)

Khalid Jaziri, could never forget, just age! Kevin, is he still there?

Thanks for joining in!

Cheers

HR

hehehhe....what a ride down the memory lane!
what about.......
-Steve Samuel,
-Saira Sequera,
-Nilakshi Herath,
-Dilan Grero,
-Dilshad (Mafia assistant),
-Ashutosh (Re joined),
-Diana wong
-Florence Tabug
-Celedonia (Re Joined)
-Terassa Gonzalez
-Bong (Re joined)
-Ranju Rai
-Jenifer Andradi.........
after all,dont we also miss a bit of Doha days,folks ?? That ****ty Al mansoura building? Mohan? :) .....I do! :ugh:
by the way just happend to stumble upon the latest edition of "Hello magazine" onboard.take a look guys,if u haven't!.....u will see QR celebrations in NYC with celebrities such as Diana ross!.......wonder if that glamour u see on pics are found in reality at QR ??? ........Nuh!:=

...by the way, lets all say "Good Luck and congratulations" to NP!

She is getting married tomorrow the 18th 2007 at CMB Hilton! :D

Good luck girl! Have some Toddy for me!

Cheers

Mr and Mrs HR
xx

BKK,

Ah yes, Mansoura, built on a graveyard....the pink curtains!!! But some of the parties!

I don't believe in the official secrets act so ....I was in apt#13 sharing with Mr. Lobo.Lobo!!

Cheers

HR

AVIATION = A champagne lifestyle on lemonade money!


At least thats what the book says....( Air Babylon...a must read for all of you!)

hahahahahha...all u guys make me laugh out loud!
I love the Discription given against senior crew names by "mitchmenezes"...so funny!
by the way,isn't Diana wong with Amiri as well??
HSR : Do you also remember Steve Samuel's cat, Simba? Lol :D

Yes, Simba was often sniffing around my pussy! LOL. Greyballs was his name!

Good old days indeed!

hahahahahahahaha...........man,what has got in to you since of late?????:D

:= she doesnt do bananas! :D

Chicdolly,

yep, Joined QR in 1995 :ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh::ugh:

Renata!!! Hmmm I did one amiri flight with her. Mad as a brush!

BKK, ah yes, forgot you had a year or two on me!!Ha ha!

Pre AAB, and even in the first few months of his tyranny, were the best days ever!

Wonder what happened to Yusuf "blow my slide" Ahmed??

Irish CSD with an attitude, well since it can't be Joyce....hmmm wonder who! LOL!

Cheers,

HR

Lol....well,the Frenchy Pascal is a service instructor and is at Al Emadi bldg.also does recruitment and still complains like a Crotchety old grand ma.:D
-Chic,are u reffering to Suzan Awak (Al Awak??)?:D the madona replica? bless her,she was a nice girl in my eyes....

<< "Blease (Please) Brebare (Prepare) the news papers!>>:D
now married to long term qatari husband.
Kevin is now a Father..not in the church......but of many children.Lol
and is that Irish CSD "the big capital double "D" Debbie"?:rolleyes:

BKK,

What's your schedule this month?

Me and Mrs HR travelling to CEB on 28th July LGW DOH CEB so DOH-CEB 29th Midnight?

Oh and how is the chugging chipmunk? Mr. Alvin?

Cheers

HR

Oh...how is Mrs HR (HB :p) say hello to her for me pls.I remember a flight I did with her.she was promoted before me,although I joined before her.wonderful girl!...and I hear u both have 2-3 kidds??
My Sched is a bit busy one as usual.lots of flight to Continental Europe and unfortunately none to Asia.infact dont remember a day I went to Phil :-(
Mr.Alvin is doing very well.he is the Diva or better known as "Samantha Jones" of DOH. :p
As for Yusuf Ahmed,...after he blew his "Jumbo" slide in KRT,( I was working on that flight in the upper deck,and I could now picture AAB and the snake going thru old records to find my name....boo hoo!!)he was ofcourse packed off to CAI.now he has become a Driver (F/O) for an Egyptian Cargo Airline.good on him! I met him not so long ago at a shopping mall.calmed down a lot.:oh:

More names to remember
 

Md. Solaymani.. Flight Operations.. he is still around
Shaaji.. staff travel. how can we forget him
Shivadas, Tim Shanny.. Flight Dispatch.. still going strong
Dilawar in the 9th floor
Mohsen Al Shayaf.. 9th floor.. contracts.. have seen him working till 2 in the morning.. lots of coffee
Gopa Kumar... airport - nice bloke
Cant forget Flo and Diana.. nice girls.. worked alongside for sometime
Mauzam... started with humble beginings... now a Flt Dispatcher
Joachim Lobo... at Planning
Kevin Herft.. nice man still around
Ashutosh.. wonder why is he not moving up in his career.. extremely nice guy
Shivadas.. simple simon
Jithin.. Amiri Operations.. reliable guy to work with.. going strong
Me.. John Anthony... nearly 12 years, most of it at Amiri and just out a few days ago. Early retirement...

Chick,...I feel as if I am the BBC...Lol coz,I have most of the answers to all the questions here......this is what happens when u work too long in the Aviation.:rolleyes:
-well, Greek fella was Nicholas Trullinos or Trillinos.
-and the crazy Kenyen was Nadia Lucas.Cpt Newton D'souza's old flame.I hear she has a buisness back in NBO.
-Diaa Elwasley jumped from one to another airline and now based in UAE,working for some small airline serving bagdad.with Keith Elbo,the Filipino Crew is with him.
-Shanaz Rabbie was in New Caledonia with the Airbus team:rolleyes:.then moved to Malaysia.currently in Colombo attending to NP' wedding.soon leaving for Turkey.she is still jet setting about the globe.still going strong with a glass of wine and a marlboro lights in hand!
-Chick,by the sounds of it,I am sure I know u too.u were there round the same time as me.wonder who u are!....and of course,would be lovely to have a QR reunion.why dont you plan??? hint hint hint !!!

Chick,
I referred to your 2nd last post.
u say you left shortly after homesick joined QR.that was B747 days in mid 1996.during this time Nadia Lucas was not in the company and Shanaz and Debbie were not CSD's....and the Muthawa Cpt had not joined QR too.how do u know all these info? pardon me,but this raises an eyebrow....:confused: ......

didn't know such thing existed?:}

Chic,

Have to agree with BKK here...your comments don't match! But hey what the hell, this thread is going better than I ever thought it would!

Hey BKK, I was in KRT earlier this year with Elkhier!! Had a wonderful 10 days there. He is still doing fine. Helping out the smaller airlines down there as a consultant and involved in other areas too! Abdulhameed working with UN in Darfur.

Met with Captain Widaa there too, ex QR if you remember him!

Audant:

John, how are you mate. It was a pleasure to work with you when I was briefly in crewing!! Top bloke sir!Remember the DAC evac? What a day that was sorting out that mess! Respect to that crew! Respect to the ops/crewing team that day too! I recall taking Bernard for a well earned several beers after that long day...

Cheers

HR

Quite interesting thread!

Is Marissa (Indian. Ex-SV) still around?

I only know Marissa (filipina) and she's in the USA flying for some small airline...and married to an american...
too many memories of QR, it is indeed in my life history...
Cheers

I joined 1996 and left October 2000...