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Nov 9, 2015 | 12:30 pm

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jbalmuth

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Originally Posted by pandaperth

Well thanks for the responses, but I’m still confused

How can it be that if I say I’m willing to pay for a full fare (booking class J) business class ticket CMN-OSL then QR says “No Availability”?
Looking at CMN-OSL for tomorrow (Nov 10th) – both CMN-DOH and DOH-OSL have plenty of availability according to EF, but still CMN-OSL has very little availability
CMN-DOH: J4 C4 D4 I4 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q0 T0 O0
DOH-OSL: J9 C9 D9 I9 Y9 B9 H9 K9 M9 L9 V9 S9 N9 Q9 T9 O9
but
CMN-OSL: J3 C0 D0 I0 Y9 B9 H0 K0 M0 L0 V0 S0 N0 Q0 T0 O0

Surely QR is not expecting to sell a lot of O/D tickets at the last minute?

I can of course separate the two flights, by having a stopover in DOH, and then there is plenty of availability on each flight. But I don’t want to stopover in Doha unless absolutely necessary
(this is on a Oneworld Explorer ticket that I already have)

I have no insight into QR's rationale here, but in case you need to save a DOH stopover for another part of the trip, I'd be tempted to book the 788s CMN-DOH-CPH and then separately buy a cheap one-way from CPH to OSL on either SAS or Norwegian Air Shuttle (currently USD 60 - 95 for the ~hour flight).

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