Qatar Airways Begins Laying Off Flight Attendants

Transition to cargo ...

Stop saying that you are sad... You aren’t... At least maybe not for them... You’re sad because your luxury travel life is becoming a thing of the past...

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So you keep your "aircrafts" flying empty during the pandemy, saying that "we will fly you home"... after a month the clown realizes that they are losing too much money so now they need to fire their employees who were risking themselves working for the Qatar Airlines..............

And about the letter, is this a 5 star company??

Akbar you are such a liar and tyrant because you have been given a upper hand by your shaikhs. I have known you from the past and your arrogant attitude is not reflected in your letter to your poor scared staff. We know you well on how a coward tyrant you are. Failure soon to your airline because of your foolishness and creating fear to your staff

Will layoff 450 CSD from a total 1000, 650 CS from 1100, 2000 cabin crew bussiness class from a total of 4420, 2800 cabin crew economy class from a total of 6475. 550 new cabin crews who expected to start a new life in Doha are already send back home.

@ Mohammed -- WOW! Do you have a source you can share for that?

Someone definitely did not inform you well about this:

“All of this comes after an announcement a couple of weeks ago of Qatar Airways deferring 50% of most Doha-based employee salaries for the foreseeable future.“

First is not most Doha-based, second is not the 50% of their salary. This was a measure applicable to certain employees with a higher salary, and they had a base salary that was not subject to this measure so they assure everyone has a safe budget (which is way higher than the minimum wage in Qatar).
Moreover this deduction will be recover as the situation permits, in the future.
I know every airline is going through though times and there are decisions they have to take and is good that people like you share information so the world knows as well that this airline did everything they could to keep all the employees for longer, but also point true, full information, so the airline is not presented in a worse condition than what actually is.

All the best.

My figures from QR cabin crew performance office are as below, however I dont know if this is finalised yet so it may be adjusted.

Mohammeds figures would appear to have been correct although now outdated as the amount of terminations for CSD and Economy Crew has been revised down by 100 and 600 respectively.

350 Cabin Service Director

650 Cabin Senior

2000 Premium Class Crew

2200 Economy Crew

Scheduling should receive final terminations list within 2 weeks. Initial list being worked through and crew being notified.

Will encompass the below as well as other undefined selections.

Crew that have reached 15 yrs service

Crew that are currently outside of Qatar due to restrictions on entry

Crew that have not yet reached 6 month service.

Chinese and Korean crew (possibly imbalance due to too many nationalities... more clarification needed)

New joiner crew that have not yet finished training.

Terminations to be recommended and administered by the below

Mr Saliya Karunanayake

Mr Errol Sequiera

Mr Ashley Colaco

Contractually it may not be possible or due to prevailing labour laws within Qatar. But I wonder, why can't the Management instead of lay-offs, send these earmarked redundant employees on a no pay leave freezing all remunerations/compensations until the frozen period? In this case, QA would not lose it's employees and even if one may join after one year...it would still be highly beneficial instead of spending millions of Riyals for recruitment processes.

Isn't this a viable option rather than breaking the hearts of these hard-working individuals without notice?