American Air pilots to Qatar Airways: Don't help British Air break a strike

If Qatar Airways seriously wants to form a relationship with American Airlines Group, it should stay away from a plan to let British Airways use its aircraft and crews to fly through a possible flight attendant strike, American Airlines pilots said. "Qatar Airways' offering to perform struck work against British Airways aircrew families {provides} a clear example of business relationship dysfunction," said a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association. Such a deal would "dash any hope of {American} ever developing a positive business relationship with {Qatar}," he said. "The possibility of developing a positive business relationship always exists, but only when Qatar Airways agrees to play by the rules, to stop peddling their influence against our company using ill-gotten funds and to stop trying to undermine workers' rights," he said. <br/>