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Qatar Airways Under Fire For Banning Famous Aviation YouTuber Josh Cahill
Qatar Airways, commonly praised for being among the world's best airlines, has recently come under negative spotlight over its reaction to a flight review posted on YouTube. Josh Cahill, a popular aviation YouTuber specializing in airline reviews, published a video titled "The Shocking Decline of Qatar Airways" in August 2023. Qatar Airways reacted furiously to Cahill's video by banning him from the airline and allegedly firing the cabin crew who operated that flight. (aeroxplorer.com) Más...Obviously it wasn't shocking enough for him not to book another flight with Qatar. Qatar needs to get over themselves and realize that maybe some crew re training may not be such a bad thing. Perhaps they need another customer relations chief that understands the value in turning around a negative review.
Maybe the reason he booked another flight was to see whether the airline had improved or whether the first flight was an exception and not the rule.
Qatar have discovered the Striesand effect!
Up to Qatar to decide. He is lucky it was not Thai Airways or he could be arrested on arrival in BKK and sued. Each country has different laws, many people seem to forget that. Some things about Qatar that some people here may not know. About 7000 Asian people did die during the construction the foot ball (soccer) world cup. Qatar is hosting the top Hamas people and is a main sponsor. They are not friends with the other Muslim countries in the area as they do not share the same views. Qatar owns the major shares in the new Rwanda airport and owns half of Rwandair. They are shareholders in other airports. They sponsor many (US) and other universities, many who have problems now with antisemitism protests. They Sponsor a lot of Mosques world wide. And the list is much longer. They are not as nice as you may think. That would be one of the reasons I would avoid them, not the quality of their Airline.
Their hosting/protecting the leaders of Hamas in comfort and security while ordinary Palestinians die daily for the leaders' evil is enough for me to consider anything related to Qatar as NFW.
We all know that occasionally things do go wrong - saying sorry shouldn't be difficult.