Qatar Airways boss apologizes for remarks on women CEOs

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Qatar Airways apologized on Wednesday for saying that a woman could not do his job.

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Akbar Al Baker said his remarks at the closing of a major airlines gathering had been intended as a joke and had been taken out of context.

He defended his airline’s record of gender diversity, saying 44 percent of its staff were female.

“Quite frankly I think the press took it out of context.

It was just a joke … I apologize for it,” Al Baker told the CAPA-Centre for Aviation airlines conference in Sydney.

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