Well, in Qatar airways if they quit you is usually for a reason, otherwise, if you do your job in a professional way, nobody will ever say a thing, all the termination in the past happened after a series of events related to the individuals, the last case is a bit of an exception, the two guys on the A350 that stayed 49 minutes without listening to the radio over Europe and if I'm not wrong, have been intercepted by some fighters but similar cases happened in emirates and other me airlines as well and they ended up with some warning letters or something. True that there's a busy turnaround, like everywhere else at the moment but there are pilots that joined 18 years ago and are still here.

Adolf... what are you smoking??? Looking at the master roster for the entire fleet, there are about 10 guys who have resigned/terminated/retired this month. I have been keeping an eye on this for a while and it's about 7-10 a month... not a day! Overall, its pretty good over here. Depending on which fleet you are on and how you bid can determine the lifestyle you have. Doha isn't the most exciting place on earth but if you make an effort to make a few friends outside of QR, it's not too bad. Different strokes for different folks i guess......

If the number of people quitting is more than the ones joining then there ought to be problems in the company. I mean that is common sense.

You write this thing without even thinking twice of the enormity of your statement (to stay polite)

7 resignations a day? You better return from that Amsterdam layover quickly mate Hahaha!

As long as you stay updated, follow the rules and fly the airplane properly, treat people with respect despite cultural differences and use common sense, no one is going to sack you. If you get called after a bad day and can show that you tried to stick to the book and used common sense, they'll thank you and close the case.
People are nice, money and rosters are very competitive, schools etc are good. Not a bad gig at all in my opinion.
Many friends went to Norwegian but will have to come back soon due to the economical situation of Norwegian.

Information about one former colleague and good acquaintance.

North American pilot who lost his job in a bankruptcy.
Goes to large and well known asian carrier with a very high profile and good reputation for a number of years, leaves just before the carrier kicks out all of the expats.
Works for another large asian carrier, known to be a little rough on their foreign employees and has a constant intake of foreigners because they all seem to leave.
Leaves for Qatar.
Says it's OK, but pollution is a problem.
States that this will be his last gig.

All in all, I get the impression from him that it is an OK job, not a lousy job, but not a great job either.

For the 2017/2018 financial year, we had 128 pilots who resigned/retired/terminated on all fleets combined. It could have been less if the blockade didn't happen. So considering we are almost at 3900 pilots now, that's a pretty decent retention rate for a ME carrier I would think.

And now they are bonding pilots with their MPL Program(cadet Pilot). That is a good move to retain and exploit.

We are in danger and our job is in greater danger!

DECs in the talent pool received an email a few days ago saying that the company currently doesn't have any plans to hire DECs and they will advise if any opportunity comes up.

So apparently QR is not planning on hiring DEC in the near future.

To the TO. As a former QR skipper(left running in 2009) I can tell you - this airline has as many issues (if not even more) then their southern neighbours. After all A.B. is still in power and that old pilot hater just had to increase the T&C's otherwise they would NEVER expand because they lost more pilots then they could hire.

I guess now, with the blockage, business is slowing down, so less need for DEC's(and you can keep you FO's happy by upgrading them). Even Emirates is parking aircraft, might hurt QR eventually as well being hated by all it's neighbours(surprise, such lovely memories I have to that place on the sun ^^).

QR has a lot of issues. As far as I heard they still fire people for stupid reasons, so be prepared. The "package" may have improved but their mindset will never.