Originally Posted by
tomofmaine
Are you guys seeing any QR F/J award seats in July or August? September 2022 and onward seems pretty normal.
I’m specifically looking for DOH-MLE in F, but from widening my search, I literally can’t find F/J seats to anywhere, and this is even on flights with wide open F/J cabins within a few days of departure (when QR is normally good at opening award seats).
Flights have been consistently full, especially this summer. QR knows they can still sell cash fares close to departure, so there's little incentive to release award seats. I've had several recent flights showing 9s in most fare buckets a week out but had the doors close with every seat taken.