On Monday I burned some Qmiles on partner airline (CX) I filled form on Sunday and next day (monday) got confirmation and did payment. So etix been created within 24hrs.
But last week I was not sucessfuly with another request with parner (BangkokAirways). Requested route was BKK-USM-BKK (flights on July) and I got very fast response: Please be informed that seats are currently unavailable in economy class for the preferred journey. I specially mentioned that I accept any flight during requested day (BKK-USM, USM-BKK)
btw If you want burn 100 Qcredits you can flight to NZealand, price for upgrade to business (DOH-AKL, AKL-DOH) is 42+42 QCredits