Qatar Airways
Qatar | Flag Carrier airline 
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Excellent company
First Officer - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Excellent company
Cons
Living in the Middle East could be tough
Advice to management
The workload is high
Advice to future employees
Better if go with family
Worst company I've ever experienced in my life to be an employee.
Captain - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Good staff travel, good school fees
Cons
Respect for contractual working conditions. Management culture. Respect for international laws. Revenge attitude
Advice to management
They do not accept advice.
Advice to future employees
Do not go there! I read this kind of advice and disregarded and I went there. Immediately after I joint, I realized my mistake. Qatar as a country have no respect for human rights, Qatar Airways is worse and can only do that because they are a very important company in Qatar, they control everything.
Poor company culture & few upgrade opportunities
First Officer - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
Major airline with all the related benefits & perks. Great fleet & expansion.
Cons
Poor company culture in terms of crew management and approach safety - very much punitive. Upgrade takes a very long time, and pass rate is ridiculously low. Not a nice country to live in as an expat.
Advice to management
Evolve towards a real just culture, consider First Officers as future Captains instead of flaps operators.
Advice to future employees
Decent airline for Captains, poor for First Officers.
BE CAREFUL
Captain - Former employee
Recommended to other Pilots Positive business outlookApproval of management
Pros
WORLDWIDE OPERATIONS IN ALL KIND OF WEATHER CONDITIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS. YOUR AERONAUTICAL EXPERIENCE WILL BE ENHANCED DRAMATICALLY. You will be flying in cold weather conditions, in ITCZ, high density airports with limited nav aids. Carry out circling and visual approaches. RNP AR , steep approaches like in Kathmandu. Great opportunity for Command Upgrade and fleet change.
Cons
toxic reporting culture starting from Cabin Crew who are mostly uneducated and brainwashed by the upper management who seek to micromanage every aspect of the operations by adopting a blame and punitive culture. As Result, the working environment is narrow minded, with TOTAL LACK OF VALUES such reciprocal respect, empathy, trust, compassion, freedom of expression etc.. ROSTER IS ROUGH flying east to west with minimum rests. 5 days in a row including 3 nights in a row. Fatigue reports might hit you back. hours in the bunk are not factorized meaning you will be flying 1200 or 1300 hours in a year and can not log the hours.
Advice to management
It will just take generations to change. It is part of the country and young society culture trying to fit in a western show business model. There are not short cuts when it comes to that. Qatar skipped all the steps or old civilizations and as consequence its people just believe they can buy everything and EVERYONE WITH MONEY. You can not buy values such integrity, respect, empathy or life experience or even basic education.
Advice to future employees
consider only as last option and career patch.
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