Nov 19, 2013, 3:20 pm
Last edit by: Prospero
Covid-19 Update:
For further information on AA awards see:
HELP DESK: MileSAAver / SAAver Award Availability - Help, Assistance & Discussion
and
AA oneworld and Other Airline Partner Award information, rules (2015 on)
N.B. Upgrades on QR book into fares not granted EQD/EQM by AA. If you're upgraded on QR, be prepared for pushback from some AA agents. You may have to submit a formal request with accompanying documentation reflecting you purchased an eligible fare class.
NOTE:AA has removed most EY and QR award access from aa.com due to a glitch booking these:
If you experience difficulties with the AA reservations system, you may be able to book by calling AA Australia (+61 2-9101-1948 ) then press 4 - or the New Zealand number (+64 09-308-4014) as an alternative - although the call center is actually in Suva, Fiji (South African agency Mindpearl) - as they can often see the inventory more reliably, and you can book.
NOTE: USA Canada travel on QR will earn EQ miles etc. in accordance with the fare class purchased.
Links:
Link to AA.com Qatar miles earning etc.
AA miles earning on QR changed 1 May 2016 (Link):
Minimum miles guarantee applies.
Checking QR award availability:
You can check QR availability on AA's site, BA's site, QF's site, www.awardnexus.com (which pulls from BA and/or QF), or the KVS tool. (A certain number of searches are free to FlyerTalk members at AwardNexus; click the "more signup options" link under the green Purchase button to sign up as a FlyerTalk member.)
When checking QR award availability, you have to check each segment individually. Both BA and QF can generate very misleading information if you try to check QR award availability all the way through [xxx-(DOH)-yyy] in one step. Be aware AA can only book 330 days out, even if you see availability farther out.
Awards on QR may not be visible to AA agents if a multi-segment itinerary is requested; broken into individual segments will generally reveal availability, however.
As well, AA Australia or New Zealand (actually MindPearl in Fiji) can often see and book AA awards on QR US-based ones might not be able to.
From danger: For AA awards, Economy is X, Business is U, First is Z. NOTE: Those with Z (First) awards may see "Z (Business Class)" shown on the QR website; this is a known glitch.
As well, QR sells intra gulf two class service as First and Economy, as AA does domestically. This can cause some issues with a Business flight including a Gulf "First" flight potentially incurring an F award redemption.
From hotelmotel: "Got my QR PNR from AA. Popped over to QR and selected seats." (AAdvantage award.)
Days of the week: To/from the USA, especially in business class, Qatar often only offers awards seats for Mon..Thu departures, not Fri..Sun departures. So makes sure you check different parts of the week, and not just always weekends (if you're not finding anything on weekends).
NOTE: At DOH / Hamad International Airport, lounges as follows:
Qatar Airways Al Safwa First Lounge (not a oneworld lounge): only accessible to those flying First Class on Qatar or oneworld airlines and QRPC Platniums flying in ticketed Business (not oneworld Emeralds flying other lower classes of service)
Qatar Airways Al Mourjan Business Lounge (not a oneworld lounge): only accessible to those flying Business Class on Qatar or oneworld (not oneworld Sapphire flying lower classes of service)
Oryx Lounge: Third party lounge.
Qatar Airways HIA First Class Lounge (oneworld lounge): First Class ticketed customers, Emerald members, as well as their accompanying guests, travelling on Qatar Airways and other oneworld member flights.
Qatar Airways HIA Business Class Lounge (oneworld lounge): First and Business Class ticketed customers, Emerald and Sapphire members, as well as their accompanying guests, travelling on Qatar Airways and other oneworld member flights.
Arrivals Lounges (not oneworld lounges): only accessible to those arriving in First or Business Class on Qatar Airways (not oneworld Sapphire flying other oneworld airlines or other classes of service)
See FT: QR Lounges at HIA
Selecting Qatar Airways Seats
If you want to assign a seat after booking an award, you should first try the Qatar website or app. If you experience issues, please try a partner site like Royal Jordanian, Malaysia Airlines, or Sri-Lankan. You can also reach out to the QR Twitter team to fix your record in order to be able to select seats on their own site.
- Sapphire+ status pax are temporarily allowed to use the Al Mourjan Business Lounge
- Only tickets issued on QR 157 stock are eligible for the Extending Our Commitment (EOC) rebooking policy
For further information on AA awards see:
HELP DESK: MileSAAver / SAAver Award Availability - Help, Assistance & Discussion
and
AA oneworld and Other Airline Partner Award information, rules (2015 on)
N.B. Upgrades on QR book into fares not granted EQD/EQM by AA. If you're upgraded on QR, be prepared for pushback from some AA agents. You may have to submit a formal request with accompanying documentation reflecting you purchased an eligible fare class.
NOTE:AA has removed most EY and QR award access from aa.com due to a glitch booking these:
From One Mile at a Time (link)
Bottom Line
For the time being you’ll have to call American if you want to ticket AAdvantage awards on Etihad & Qatar that aren’t for travel to & from the US or Canada. It makes sense that American took these awards “offline,” and now it also makes sense why so many passengers have been having issues with checked bags on awards.
Bottom Line
For the time being you’ll have to call American if you want to ticket AAdvantage awards on Etihad & Qatar that aren’t for travel to & from the US or Canada. It makes sense that American took these awards “offline,” and now it also makes sense why so many passengers have been having issues with checked bags on awards.
NOTE: USA Canada travel on QR will earn EQ miles etc. in accordance with the fare class purchased.
Links:
Link to AA.com Qatar miles earning etc.
AA miles earning on QR changed 1 May 2016 (Link):
Minimum miles guarantee applies.
Checking QR award availability:
You can check QR availability on AA's site, BA's site, QF's site, www.awardnexus.com (which pulls from BA and/or QF), or the KVS tool. (A certain number of searches are free to FlyerTalk members at AwardNexus; click the "more signup options" link under the green Purchase button to sign up as a FlyerTalk member.)
When checking QR award availability, you have to check each segment individually. Both BA and QF can generate very misleading information if you try to check QR award availability all the way through [xxx-(DOH)-yyy] in one step. Be aware AA can only book 330 days out, even if you see availability farther out.
Awards on QR may not be visible to AA agents if a multi-segment itinerary is requested; broken into individual segments will generally reveal availability, however.
As well, AA Australia or New Zealand (actually MindPearl in Fiji) can often see and book AA awards on QR US-based ones might not be able to.
From danger: For AA awards, Economy is X, Business is U, First is Z. NOTE: Those with Z (First) awards may see "Z (Business Class)" shown on the QR website; this is a known glitch.
As well, QR sells intra gulf two class service as First and Economy, as AA does domestically. This can cause some issues with a Business flight including a Gulf "First" flight potentially incurring an F award redemption.
From hotelmotel: "Got my QR PNR from AA. Popped over to QR and selected seats." (AAdvantage award.)
Days of the week: To/from the USA, especially in business class, Qatar often only offers awards seats for Mon..Thu departures, not Fri..Sun departures. So makes sure you check different parts of the week, and not just always weekends (if you're not finding anything on weekends).
NOTE: At DOH / Hamad International Airport, lounges as follows:
Qatar Airways Al Safwa First Lounge (not a oneworld lounge): only accessible to those flying First Class on Qatar or oneworld airlines and QRPC Platniums flying in ticketed Business (not oneworld Emeralds flying other lower classes of service)
Qatar Airways Al Mourjan Business Lounge (not a oneworld lounge): only accessible to those flying Business Class on Qatar or oneworld (not oneworld Sapphire flying lower classes of service)
Oryx Lounge: Third party lounge.
Qatar Airways HIA First Class Lounge (oneworld lounge): First Class ticketed customers, Emerald members, as well as their accompanying guests, travelling on Qatar Airways and other oneworld member flights.
Qatar Airways HIA Business Class Lounge (oneworld lounge): First and Business Class ticketed customers, Emerald and Sapphire members, as well as their accompanying guests, travelling on Qatar Airways and other oneworld member flights.
Arrivals Lounges (not oneworld lounges): only accessible to those arriving in First or Business Class on Qatar Airways (not oneworld Sapphire flying other oneworld airlines or other classes of service)
See FT: QR Lounges at HIA
Selecting Qatar Airways Seats
If you want to assign a seat after booking an award, you should first try the Qatar website or app. If you experience issues, please try a partner site like Royal Jordanian, Malaysia Airlines, or Sri-Lankan. You can also reach out to the QR Twitter team to fix your record in order to be able to select seats on their own site.
Qatar Airways / QR: Redeem AA Miles for Award (master thd)
Jul 24, 2018, 8:38 pm
#286
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: LAX, SNA, LGB
Programs: AS MVP, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 38
for AA awards, you can only book US - Asian region 2 via the pacific.
Qatar is good for ex-US to indian subcontinent though.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ward-chart.jsp
Qatar is good for ex-US to indian subcontinent though.
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...ward-chart.jsp
Jul 24, 2018, 8:50 pm
#287
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: PHL
Programs: AA - Plat, HHonors - Diamond, IHG - Plat, Marriott - Gold, National - Exec, Amtrak - Select, NEXUS
Posts: 1,075
Couldn't it be booked as two separate awards but still on the same ticket & PNR?
PHL - DOH would be US - Middle East (Transatlantic)
DOH - BKK would be Middle East - Asia 2
PHL - DOH would be US - Middle East (Transatlantic)
DOH - BKK would be Middle East - Asia 2
Jul 24, 2018, 8:53 pm
#288
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,632
Some variant of this question gets asked every few days or weeks. It is clearly stated in the AAdvantage rules, which you can read online, that USA to Asia 2 (which includes BKK) may only be flown transpacific on a single award. You CAN book this on QR, but only as two awards, PHL-DOH and DOH-BKK. It costs more miles, obviously.
Jul 24, 2018, 9:49 pm
#289
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: DCA
Programs: DL DM, AA EXP, various hotel
Posts: 2,227
Some variant of this question gets asked every few days or weeks. It is clearly stated in the AAdvantage rules, which you can read online, that USA to Asia 2 (which includes BKK) may only be flown transpacific on a single award. You CAN book this on QR, but only as two awards, PHL-DOH and DOH-BKK. It costs more miles, obviously.
Last edited by JDiver; Jul 25, 2018 at 12:09 am Reason: Too personal and intent interpreted
Jul 24, 2018, 9:53 pm
#290
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: KHOU/KIAH
Programs: AA EXP | Marriott Bonvoy Titanium| Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 11,247
It is definitely doable with 2 awards.
Last edited by JDiver; Jul 25, 2018 at 12:10 am Reason: Redacted previously deleted post content
Jul 24, 2018, 10:34 pm
#291
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Live: IWI; Work: DCA/Everywhere; Play: LAS/SJU/MLE
Programs: AA EXP, DL PM, Hyatt Glob, Marriott Ambassador/LTP, Nat'l Exec Elite, LEYE Gold
Posts: 6,670
<redacted> OP might not want to pay 110k miles to go PHL-BKK via DOH when it only costs 70k to fly even more BIS miles to go, say, PHL-LAX-HKG-BKK on AA/CX.
Last edited by JDiver; Jul 25, 2018 at 12:11 am Reason: Redacted previously deleted post content and reply
Jul 25, 2018, 12:47 pm
#293
Join Date: Jan 2018
Posts: 3
no availability after June 19, 2019
BA is showing zero availability out of DOH to any city starting June 20, 2019...i called up AA the other day as they can finally see up to at least June 20 and the rep confirmed she wasn't seeing anything. very strange since every day up to June 19, 2019 is showing multiple seats. anybody have an insight to what is going on? fare code change seems unlikely as XXX-DOH is still available after the date.
Jul 25, 2018, 1:21 pm
#294
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA, UA, GE
Posts: 5,123
BA is showing zero availability out of DOH to any city starting June 20, 2019...i called up AA the other day as they can finally see up to at least June 20 and the rep confirmed she wasn't seeing anything. very strange since every day up to June 19, 2019 is showing multiple seats. anybody have an insight to what is going on? fare code change seems unlikely as XXX-DOH is still available after the date.
Jul 25, 2018, 1:23 pm
#295
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Posts: 12,481
BA is showing zero availability out of DOH to any city starting June 20, 2019...i called up AA the other day as they can finally see up to at least June 20 and the rep confirmed she wasn't seeing anything. very strange since every day up to June 19, 2019 is showing multiple seats. anybody have an insight to what is going on? fare code change seems unlikely as XXX-DOH is still available after the date.
Jul 25, 2018, 2:06 pm
#296
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA, UA, GE
Posts: 5,123
Jul 25, 2018, 2:57 pm
#297
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 26
Hello All,
I am trying to redeem AAdvantage miles on Qatar Airways for business class. The US segment to Doha is available but not DOH-HYD or DOH-BOM. I have read few messages on it but I would appreciate those who are current on this aspect and can guide me how to proceed to get it. I am planning to fly mid August.
Thanks
Arvind
I am trying to redeem AAdvantage miles on Qatar Airways for business class. The US segment to Doha is available but not DOH-HYD or DOH-BOM. I have read few messages on it but I would appreciate those who are current on this aspect and can guide me how to proceed to get it. I am planning to fly mid August.
Thanks
Arvind
Jul 25, 2018, 7:55 pm
#298
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Columbia, MD
Programs: US Airways DM Silver, United Mileage Plus
Posts: 216
Hello All,
I am trying to redeem AAdvantage miles on Qatar Airways for business class. The US segment to Doha is available but not DOH-HYD or DOH-BOM. I have read few messages on it but I would appreciate those who are current on this aspect and can guide me how to proceed to get it. I am planning to fly mid August.
Thanks
Arvind
I am trying to redeem AAdvantage miles on Qatar Airways for business class. The US segment to Doha is available but not DOH-HYD or DOH-BOM. I have read few messages on it but I would appreciate those who are current on this aspect and can guide me how to proceed to get it. I am planning to fly mid August.
Thanks
Arvind
Jul 26, 2018, 3:55 pm
#299
Join Date: Feb 2017
Programs: AA : EXP / AR : ORO
Posts: 55
Trying to book JFK/DOH/KUL for later this year.
Availability is ok according to BA's site.
Are layovers allowed in DOH? Or do they need to be ticketed as 2 differente itineraries?
I want to spend a couple of days in DOH and then continue to KUL.
Also, what are typical imposed charges?
Availability is ok according to BA's site.
Are layovers allowed in DOH? Or do they need to be ticketed as 2 differente itineraries?
I want to spend a couple of days in DOH and then continue to KUL.
Also, what are typical imposed charges?
Jul 26, 2018, 3:59 pm
#300
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,599
Trying to book JFK/DOH/KUL for later this year.
Availability is ok according to BA's site.
Are layovers allowed in DOH? Or do they need to be ticketed as 2 differente itineraries?
I want to spend a couple of days in DOH and then continue to KUL.
Also, what are typical imposed charges?
Availability is ok according to BA's site.
Are layovers allowed in DOH? Or do they need to be ticketed as 2 differente itineraries?
I want to spend a couple of days in DOH and then continue to KUL.
Also, what are typical imposed charges?
There are no carrier surcharges for awards on QR
There will be some taxes - this can be checked using a pricing tool such as ITA