"Flightmare" at DOH

Something to do with soft ground,, lets leave it at that shall we

Power to the non believers, it’s a great feeling to have and hold.

good to hear no one got hurt...

bdway, when the new airport will open?

the new one will hopefully not going to have any problem like this.

Good read but pitty that nothing will happen. these arab states are to behind to do anything to inprove. if someomen dies in the run ,,so what is was gods will, they never learn from the past

Power to the non believers, it’s a great feeling to have and hold.

suddenly disappears when berated in public at high volume....

airport to depart, 30 of their family and countrymen didn't feel the need to shove their way into the check-in area. Lately I notice the guards let them all come in when just one person is flying. That main hall before you go through immigration is not set up to accommodate such crowds. It's bad enough when you are flying into Doha and you can't get through the crowds waiting to pick up the one guy returning from home but at least that process goes quicker than the check-in.

I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM

It doesn't take a bunch of airport staff to contain them. In my previous situation there's not even an 'Eid vacation rush' at that time and it didn't fill the whole departure/baggage lane space...but some people really just...want...to...RUSH...without ever thinking if they hurt somebody with what they're doing. The airport staff already was there to regulate all of us but some people are just plain stubborn to their egos.

Just because this country has a large population of the same certain nationality doesn't mean we 'own' the country and forget about respect or 'honor' for this country by doing what bad attitudes we do in each of our own respective countries. But then again that's what consequences this country usually gets when companies usually hire masses of cheap (egotistic) labor.

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

Majnoon, yes, we do agree. The answer is to plan better crowd control for the holidays.

Mandi

I wasn't there but from the description I am envisioning a large herd that should never have made it into the departure area in the first place. I have worked large crowds and it is scary and very difficult. My advice is to plan better.

I don't think we need to do anything in the name of God, he's a big boy and can take of himself.

Majnoon, I think maybe that putting more security screening stations and some people in uniform walking the queues would be helpful. There should be airport, or security or police personnel outside the entrance to insure order. There should be roped, clear lines for entrance to the airport and for the queues leading to the first baggage screening. All airports do this at holiday times in anticipation of a much larger than usual crowd.

Mandi

put yourself through this traumatic experience? You know it's going to be like this and yet you still go, it's like moths being drawn to a flame or maybe like the lemmings.

What should the airport people do? KLet everyone stampede onto the runways?

I don't think we need to do anything in the name of God, he's a big boy and can take of himself.

They will never change...and so is their body odor. LOL

I also had that encounter when I'm boarding for home on a vacation. One guy pushes me from the back saying "Can't you move?" and I said "There's a thing called 'patience' in queue." and he was embarrased.

So he tries to push somebody of his own nationality and hell breaks loose on them, lost the queue lane, cut the ropes, talks their language in a high tone mode, shoves his countrymen, from 2 to 5 to 10 of them in a hurry fight...while I'm still there slowly moving in the proper queue while they find their way to get to the baggage first in an improper manner.

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

Here's the complete text from Di which she posted in "Answers." The Peninsula left out the part out the fist-fight and children being pushed and shoved.

"FLIGHTMARE! I expected it to be busy over the holiday season and you would think that Doha airport authorities would plan properly to manage the expected flood of people exiting all at once. Yesterday I am several other thousand passengers went through an experience that can only be described as dangerous and highly traumatic. We expect queues and delays at busy times but what is not acceptable was the complete lack of crowd control. Hundreds of passengers filled the departure hall; there were physically too many people per square metre for safety, some trying to push their way towards the check in desks and other pushing towards the security point before immigration. This resulted in a serious crowd crush situation that airport staff did not try to alleviate at all. I was caught in the middle of this surging crush of people, more and more people were pushing from behind and the security were preventing a forward flow, consequently I and many many others, including children and babies were severely crushed. People were fighting, I saw a fist fight, a pregnant lady was screaming for help. My attempts to call out to the officers ahead to let the crowd move were ignored. Today I am recovering with many scapres and bruises on my body but more so from the trauma of this incident which was very frightening. Qatar airport needs to bring in some expert help as it is clearly incapable of securing the safety and comfort of its passengers." From our fellow QLer, Di.

Mandi

Its Eid and every one wants to travel out.

Hope they will take better precautions in the future.

I didn't drink the kool-aid! -- PM