QR Award Availability appears to be quite limited on those routes, but it does exist.
You may wish to use the
[Power Search] function in the
KVS Tool if your dates are flexible:
[KVS Tool 7.9.1/Diamond - Awards/QF-OneWorld/AU-QFA-SP]
Code:
DOH Doha Hamad Intl QA [OTHH]
SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith NS AU [YSSY]
SAT 02 Apr 2016 | 1 Seat
Carrier Flight From Depart To Arrive St Award Availability
--------- ------ ---- -------- ---- -------- --- -- ------------------
QR 908 DOH 20:35 SYD 17:35 +1 0 YS+
QR 836 DOH 02:15 BKK 12:40 0 YS+
-> QF 24 BKK 18:25 SYD 06:45 +1 0 YS+
QR 962 DOH 02:45 DPS 17:10 0 YS+
-> JQ 38 DPS 22:35 SYD 07:20 +1 0 YS+
Actually just yesterday I noticed the following after further research:-
QF will not show QR availability ex-Australia even when available - clearly QF 'prefers' to offer QF, EK and CX - it will show QR on other routes (e.g. BKK-DOH)
BA will show availability ex-Australia if you search for 1 seat - when available usually 2 or more seats are actually available (e.g. as seen by CS2, ...). This seems to be a KVS/BA method quirk as if I use the BA site directly it works.
It seems availability has improved recently to/from Australia and DOH or there was some IT issue with searching previously. I have not tried to make a booking via AA - just searching for future reference when looking for options to/from Europe.