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http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/the-truth-about-the-luxury-of-qatar-airways/

The_Goat · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:14 pm Post subject:

Par for the course in the Middle East.

At least Doha seems to be less discriminating in that they seem to be treating everyone like shit irrespective of skin color. This is unlike in the UAE where the Whites are treated like royalty and the coloured people like slaves.
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PAL@YWG · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:15 am Post subject:

It's heartbreaking to read that every DOH-KTB flight brings back coffins of dead Nepalese workers! They literally work to death! No wonder QR flies to KTB multiple time a day.
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Spiderguy252 · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:59 am Post subject:

Probably sensationalized, but I remember reading a headline a few weeks ago claiming that there was a strong possibility that up to 4,000 migrant labourers could die between now and the Football World Cup. Not surprising, seeing that they will be made to work until they burnout, both in heat and cold, with minimal salary and benefits.

I think it was Amnesty International who reported it, and Qatar found an easy solution to the problem: they purchased that wing for themselves on a ten year term until 2023.

Of course, that won't stop folks from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Lanka to yet head out there to make a living in such inhumane conditions. A classic sign of a labour intensive economy is when the number of males far outsrip the fairer sex, and Qatar is a classic example of this phenomena:

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abhijith16 · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject:

I read the article. It was terrible. I pass through these 'prison cells' every day not knowing this.
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Nimish · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 7:02 am Post subject:

Quite a disgrace, especially AAB's tyranny and megalomania. He sounds like he'd give Idi Amin a run for his money. Disgusting.
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iah87 · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 2566

Compared to this DXB is a paradise and while conditions are not exactly great at EK, but it should be much better than QR. I wonder how it is at Saudia and Kuwait.

Spiderguy252 · Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:18 pm Post subject:

stealthpilot · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2325 Location: BLR, DXB

Yikes

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rutvij · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:56 am Post subject:

This is what the World's 5 star airline has to offer to its Employees! Shameful! I think I will never fly them.

Optimus.Prime · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:39 pm Post subject:

God Above! that is like serving time in a Ghanian prison i presume, except this one is Maroon and takes to the skies rather often!
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ssbmat · Member Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 1710

The world was so much better off in the pre-globalisation days Shocked

Airlines and aircraft had individual personalities and technology (not accountants) dictated progress and innovation.

Agreed most people were not well off, but life was relatively peaceful. You could board an airplane without having to take off your shoes and getting x-rayed naked. And people actually dressed up to travel, instead of the half-pant/backpack/chappals/cellphone crowd of today.

And these Middle Eastern carriers were still discovering something called an airplane..