A well-liked YouTuber has been banned from Qatar Airways after ripping into the airline in a current evaluation.
YouTuber Josh Cahill, who has greater than 650,000 subscribers, posted a flight evaluation over the summer season after flying financial system from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to London, calling the airline “outdated,” “soiled” and “unfriendly” and complaining about the whole lot from the quantity of area within the cabin, to the leisure choices and extra.
“Listening to about Qatar’s remedy of you introduced me to this video, and I simply need to applaud you for standing behind your evaluation and never being bullied by the airline,” one viewer commented. “I will be trying ahead to watching your movies to any extent further and utilizing them to make journey choices.”
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In line with paperwork considered by Insider, after posting the evaluation, Cahill obtained an electronic mail from the airline asking him to take away it in alternate for a free flight — which he refused. This month, he discovered whereas attempting to board a flight he booked by means of Qatar Airways that his reservation had been canceled as a result of he was banned by the airline.
Cahill confirmed the story in a December 16 follow-up to his preliminary evaluation entitled “Banned and Bribed by Qatar Airways — Surprising Transfer!”
“In 10 years of reviewing airways I’ve by no means been banned from any airline, nor has any of them ever supplied me a free flight in return to delete the damaging evaluation,” he informed Insider. “That was certainly a first-timer.”
Cahill stands by the truth that his evaluation was “damaging however nonetheless balanced” regardless of the tough response from Qatar Airways.
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“I am stunned by Qatar’s drastic response,” he mentioned.
Qatar Airways didn’t instantly reply to Entrepreneur‘s request for remark or affirmation.