Qatar Airways in hiring mode in the Philippines

Qatar Airways has started recruiting additional cabin crew, lounge staff and contact center employees in Manila, Cebu, Clark and Davao this month.

Qatar Airways chief customer experience officer Rossen Dimitrov told the Inquirer the airline aimed to hire a “significant number of staff from the Philippines” to meet the pent-up demand for travel.

- Our strategy has always been clear since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic: it is to be as customer-centric as possible because we understand how fluid the pandemic situation is,” Dimitrov said. “It will definitely bounce back and with the reopening of the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia region, we’re already seeing the return of leisure bookings,” Dimitrov said.

In addition, Dimitrov said the airline could see more passengers traveling for business as they “are eager to get back to business as usual.”

Qatar Airways currently operate 17 weekly flights for the Manila-Doha route with 7 weekly flights, Clark-Doha route, and 4 weekly flights, Cebu-Doha route.

Mr. Akbar Al Baker is the Group CEO of Qatar Airways and Secretary-General of Qatar Tourism. Al-Baker also served as one of the lead developers for Hamad International Airport, which opened in 2014. In May 2021, Al-Baker was appointed as chairman of Oneworld.

Qatar Airways Company Q.C.S.C. (Arabic: القطرية, al-Qaṭariya), operating as Qatar Airways, is the state-owned flag carrier airline of Qatar. Headquartered in the Qatar Airways Tower in Doha, the airline operates a hub-and-spoke network, flying to over 150 international destinations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania from its base at Hamad International Airport, using a fleet of more than 200 aircraft. Qatar Airways Group employs more than 43,000 people. The carrier has been a member of the Oneworld alliance since October 2013, the first Persian Gulf carrier to sign with one of the three major airline alliances.