My friend came over from Thailand to Belgium on October 4 2020. He was checked in, so were his bags and he was ready to board. Then, suddenly, a flight attendant of Qatar Airways denied him entry to the plane. She said he needed to buy a return ticket to Thailand. He explained to her that, with a cohabitation visa a return ticket is not needed. But still she demanded he would buy one. We had 15 minutes time till the gate would close, so we had no other option to buy him a € 500 return ticket that we would never use.
Now, after more then 5 months and numerous complaints and explanations Qatar still refuses to refund us this ticket. Eventhough we also bought an insurance which would give us full refund and we are well within the regulations of that insurance.
I guess they treat us this way cuz we are gay. This feels like racism and blackmailing.