Originally Posted by
Cledaybuck
I get that people do it, it's just not what I would do. Give me less travel time/time on a plane over a better quality J seat. In this case, he is spending over 6 additional hours in Y just to get that seat, plus additional inflight time to get to the US, plus an overnight in DOH. No thanks.
That, and OP needs to remember that the fact that this is on separate tickets using different modes of purchase means no protection on the QR flight from DOH if anything goes wrong. There is also the consideration (of entry into Qatar should that become necessary or indeed not possible).