Originally Posted by
danger
I seem to recall someone mentioning upthread (or in one of the other similar threads) that it's important to have the dates of your first two flights concrete, rather than just the first one. Is that correct? If so, what is the reason?
Not really. You have to leave the first segment the same, but could change the second as long as you keep it to a transit in DOH (assuming you make stopovers later in Europe/ME)