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Old Aug 2, 2018 | 7:27 pm
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Originally Posted by GGLwannabe
Penang has a lot of tourists from the Gulf and this route was clearly planned before the Gulf embargo came into force. The Gulf embargo is probably the reason why most Qatar planes to Penang are flying half empty, and that would explain why Qatar is now trying to fill seats by offering attractive prices.

At the moment this is (or would be if it could be booked at the Google flights price), as far as I can see, the cheapest Qatar routing to South East Asia from London.

Does anyone know why the flight combinations Google flights comes up with cannot be bought on Qatar for the prices indicated by Google?
LHR-DOH-HKG-DOH-LHR can be found for £1500ish for the later parts of this year. Ticketed by QR with the LHR-DOH segments on BA.
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