Originally Posted by
Dorsetboy
We are in a similar situation and I would appreciate some help from the forum. We arrive DOH from LHR at 0045 and our onward flight to ADL departs at 2000. Have been told by my TA that Qatar have said that we don’t qualify for the STPC as we could get an earlier flight from LHR to connect to the ADL flight same day. Maybe that’s correct but it does reduce the attractiveness of the offer and wasn’t my original understanding. Has something changed?
No, those appear to be the rules, cited above and in the wiki. But it's seriously not that big a deal. Book a US$23 hotel overnight with the Qatar+ stopover program and ubering back and forth from the airport is inexpensive and easy. I am an expert, I did this all of once. :-)