A shocking ending in which Qatar Airways bans a YouTuber who gave a negative review and all flight staff are fired.
Qatar Airways Bans YouTuber For Negative Review - One Mile at a Time
https://onemileatatime.com/news/qatar-airways-bans-youtuber-negative-review/
Youtuber Mr. Cahill is a veteran reviewer who has flown over 650 flights on over 185 airlines over the past 6 years, and is the aviation critic with the most viewers on YouTube. It is said that he is one of the.
In August 2023, Mr. Cahill flew from Colombo, Sri Lanka to Doha, Qatar in economy class on Qatar Airways, and posted a review video of his experience on Youtube titled 'Qatar Airways' Shocking Decline'. I posted it.
THE SHOCKING DECLINE OF QATAR AIRWAYS - YouTube
In the video, Cahill points out the lack of options on the in-flight meal menu, the poor attitude of the staff, the filthy toilets that were flooded with water, and the fact that his requests to have them cleaned were ignored. 'Qatar Airways' flights were below average and nowhere near world standard. Everything was disappointing and it's quite shocking to see an airline perform so poorly.'
A few days after posting this video, Cahill received a phone call from Qatar Airways. The content of the call was that Cahill was offered a free airline ticket if he would delete the video.
After Mr. Cahill rejected the deal, Qatar Airways then demanded that staff members' comments about poor working conditions be removed from the comments section of the video, which Mr. Cahill also refused.
A week later, Mr. Cahill received an email from Qatar Airways informing him that his upcoming flight reservation had been canceled and that he would no longer be allowed to book any future flights with Qatar Airways.
The terms and conditions on which Qatar Airways based its disciplinary action state that permission is required to take photographs on board the aircraft, but Cahill said such permission was requested when he received a positive review. He said he had never heard of it.
A short time later, a staff member working on the flight told Mr. Cahill, ``I do give you permission to film the exchange, but I would like to ask you to remove the portion of my conversation from the video.'' ``I was pressured to write an affidavit stating that I did not give permission for the filming.'' ``If I do not write it, there is a high possibility that I will be fired.''
However, Cahill did not remove the video, so Qatar Airways applied to Youtube to remove it, citing the privacy of the crew members. At the time of writing, the review video in question has not been deleted, but it is said that it is no longer viewable if accessed from an IP address in Qatar.
'While I can't prove it, I've heard from many people that Qatar Airways' failure to remove the video resulted in the termination of all staff on the flight,' Cahill said. talked.
A video of Mr. Cahill reporting on his interaction with Qatar Airways can be viewed below.
One Mile at a Time, a travel news site that covered this incident, said, ``It's a little hard to believe that something that could be considered an airline company could strangle themselves to such an extent. Qatar Airways' best response would have been to issue a statement apologizing for the poor service, or else just ignore it.In fact, Cahill sometimes gives his videos quite pretentious titles, but the videos themselves It wasn't that negative.'
One Mile at a Time is particularly interested in the reputation of Akbar Al Baker, the CEO of Qatar Airways when Cahill flew with him. According to One Mile at a Time, when Al Baker, who suddenly resigned in November 2023, was the CEO, Qatar Airways was famous for its extremely poor company culture due to his dictatorship.
From this, One Mile at a Time says, ``It's easy to understand why this happened. Perhaps Al Baker learned of the existence of Cahill's video and had his subordinates delete it.'' And without anyone pointing out to Mr. Al Baker, ``That's a bad response,'' everyone did their best to get the result that Mr. Al Baker wanted, and as a result, this happened. I guessed that.
Badr Mohammed Al Mir, the new CEO of Qatar Airways, has begun implementing reforms such as abolishing the long-controversial curfew for flight attendants staying in company housing in Doha. There seem to be signs of improvement.
One Mile at a Time said, ``The series of events that Mr. Cahill experienced happened under the Al Baker regime, so we hope that the situation will change even slightly under Qatar Airways' new CEO.'' said.
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