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Pilots raise alarm at Qatar Airways for doctored hours, hidden fatigue
Pilots at Qatar Airways say the state-owned airline is under-counting their work hours and ignoring complaints of fatigue - a safety breach that hurts staff health and risks passenger lives. The testimony demonstrates how worker abuse extends even to the Gulf nation’s high-skill industries, as Qatar Airways (QA) tries to minimise crew downtime. “This is obviously a huge health and safety issue for the pilots themselves - and the people they’re flying,” said Isobel Archer of the Business and… (www.reuters.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Yet they win awards for best airline rather often, can anyone say money under the table?
Also, part of me thinks their A350 paint issues are self inflicted to try and get favours from Airbus.
Waiting for them to fall out with Boeing again.
Also, part of me thinks their A350 paint issues are self inflicted to try and get favours from Airbus.
Waiting for them to fall out with Boeing again.
As with most Asian airlines, I think they win awards for their cabin service, not their operational excellence.
Doha and Watar are in the Middle East, not Asia. Geographically speaking……
The "Middle East" is part of Asia, eh?
The middle east is definitely part of Asia.
Hardly! I got an atlas to prove it, too!
What continent is it, then? Europe starts on the other side of the Bosporus Strait, black Sea, and Caucasus Mountains, and Africa starts across the Red Sea. One could argue the Mediterranean countries in north Africa are part of the Middle East, but that still puts the majority of the ME in Asia.
Where is Egypt?
Africa
Continent?
Asia or Middle East?
Asia and Africa are continents. The Middle East is a region spanning both.
His issue is fatigue. He says he works 26 out of 30 days a month. They all took a 60% pay cut due to COVID. They do turns to China from Doha. Nine hours there, 2 hours on the ground and eleven hours back. With an augmented crew they can work 22 hours straight.
I used to fly to China from DFW with a crew of four and our duty day was sixteen. After one of those days, you just fell into bed totally spent.
There are abuses here and being hidden