Without endorsing QR, I'd like to make a few comments

First, Qatar is by far not the worst country. China has worse records when it comes to human rights. Yet nearly everything you and I buy, was made there. Places like Syria or Irak aren't exactly human rights friendly either. Nor is Turkey and large parts of Africa.

Second: Concerning the LGBT issues, those apply to nearly all of Africa, the middle east and large parts of Asia (mainly India, Myanmar and other neighboring nations).

QR executives don't make the law. Neither do EK/EY/AI executives in their respective homelands neither are they necessarily endorsing it. In fact I'm pretty sure, any CEO would happily accept any paying customer.

Concerning labor rights, this is pretty much the same. QR doesn't make the rules. The only thing you can criticize is, how QR is treating their own employees. If a rule fixes a minimum, nobody forces them to do more.

Overall, you have to acknowledge that civil rights (as we know them today) are a fairly new. Turn the clock back a hundred years or so and people in the "civilized world" would condemn LGBT (even punish it). Women voting was a no-go.

Labor rights really grew only in 1880-1910 with the industrial revolution. Effective human rights only took a major place in our laws after the atrocities committed in WWII.

In fact, I'd like to believe that many nations, that like to brag about civil and human rights, have still a long way to go. The US never ratified american convention on human rights. The US (but other nations as well) have on multiple occasions refused to accept rulings on international organizations or courts. And that is before, we talk about secret CIA prisons, GTMO, death penalty, torture, special procedures for terrorist suspects, etc... .

QR is merely a symptom. It should us remind us how far we've come and why the fight for human rights has to continue in our countries and abroad. I don't think that boycotting an airline will do anything to help them. All we can do is travel to the world and share our ideas in the hopes, that nationals start fighting for their rights as well.

Rushing them and provoking them will certainly be of no help to the people of Qatar. We have so many countries, that overthrew the regime in place in the hopes of a better perspective and that threw the country in complete chaos.