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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 youll have to call American if you want to ticket AAdvantage awards on Etihad & Qatar that arent 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 youll have to call American if you want to ticket AAdvantage awards on Etihad & Qatar that arent 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)
#527
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: San Francisco area
Programs: AA EXP, Marriott T
Posts: 455
Traveling LAX/DOH/ATQ in January with an overnight stay in the DOH on AA miles Business Ticket, would there be any promotions that still provide hotels for overnight stay? As US citizens do we still need transit visa?
#529
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: DCA/IAD
Programs: AA EXP; 1W Emerald; HHonors Diamond; Marriott Gold; UA dirt
Posts: 7,816
Does AA place any of its codes on QR flights? The earn rate for EQMs isn't so hot and the EQD rate is laughable. Looking at a fare to DAC next year ($900 ex IAD) and I would earn about 500 miles for what will be a 19,000 mile trip.
Going for great indeed!
Going for great indeed!
#530
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: RDU <|> MMX
Programs: AA EXP 2MM, SK EBS
Posts: 12,453
AA stopped codesharing on QR around June 2017 as part of the US3 vs ME3 dispute nonsense.
#531
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: DCA/IAD
Programs: AA EXP; 1W Emerald; HHonors Diamond; Marriott Gold; UA dirt
Posts: 7,816
Guess I'll have to suck it up. Oh well. Better than paying $3,500 for coach on Cathay...
One last question. QR seat availability seems very opaque. Is there a way to see what configuration of the 77W is being run on a route and what seats are open?
#532
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: ORD
Programs: AA, UA, GE
Posts: 5,122
Qatar Airways Cargo - Home
And use the aircraft type as defined in the Wiki on the Qatar airways fleet thread in the QR forum:
The Complete Guide to the Qatar Airways Fleet
#533
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,572
IAD-DOH-DAC-DOH-IAD is 18,724 miles
EQD earning on the loweest eligible fares would be 5% of 18732 = 936.20
EQM earning on the loweest eligible fares would be 50% of 18732 = 9,362
Award miles on the loweest eligible fares would be 25% of 18732 = 4,681
For a $900 fare, the EQDs are higher than fare paid. Of te $883 fare that I can see QR is offering in Feb, $692 is fare/surcharge and the rest is taxes
If there was an AA fare at that price, the EQD earning would be 692 , with award mileage earning of 3,460 and EQMs of 9,362 ( with fare earning basis). If it accrued based on distamce, award miles would be same as QR at 25% , the EQDs would be the same as QR at 5% ; the EQMs would still be 9,362
It looks that for EQD and Award miles, the QR earning is better than an AA flight number would give
Looking on Expertflyer, the lowest fares do seem to be eligible for mileage accrual to AA
Last edited by Dave Noble; Dec 3, 2018 at 10:45 am
#534
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 106
Trying to book PHL-DOH-DEL but only flights available are via LHR according to US AA CSRs and I prefer not to go via LHR.
Tried again only to be told that I can't book on QR using AA miles.
Tried Australian number but the number went silent after 30 minutes on hold.
Suggestions?
Tried again only to be told that I can't book on QR using AA miles.
Tried Australian number but the number went silent after 30 minutes on hold.
Suggestions?
#535
Join Date: Aug 2012
Programs: AA PLT, SPG Gold
Posts: 2,405
Trying to book PHL-DOH-DEL but only flights available are via LHR according to US AA CSRs and I prefer not to go via LHR.
Tried again only to be told that I can't book on QR using AA miles.
Tried Australian number but the number went silent after 30 minutes on hold.
Suggestions?
Tried again only to be told that I can't book on QR using AA miles.
Tried Australian number but the number went silent after 30 minutes on hold.
Suggestions?
My first question would be why are you calling? QR is now bookable online. The first agent may have been trying to say that they couldn't find any award space via DOH.
#536
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 106
I believe that there is a direct flight from PHL to DOH but online I'm only getting to DOH via LHR.
#537
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Posts: 44,572
#538
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 5,631
Do you realize that awards, unlike paid tickets, are not always available? In fact they are only rarely available. You are very lucky to get any flights at all.
#539
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: used to be PER, now it's nowhere/eveywhere
Programs: QFF NB, AA GLD
Posts: 3,464
aa.com allows additional 3rd continent routings using QR
For some time, redemptions from Nth America to Africa have allowed routing via Doha on QR
Well I was exploring redemption options for a planned RTW trip next year, and I have discovered that aa.com allows additional routings via Doha. The routings I have found are:
And I was able to get to the final payment page for each of them.
I put one on 5-day hold; I might even buy it😊
Well I was exploring redemption options for a planned RTW trip next year, and I have discovered that aa.com allows additional routings via Doha. The routings I have found are:
South Pacific Europe (AKL-xDOH-AMS)
South Pacific Africa (AKL-xDOH-CMN)
South America Africa (EZE-xDOH-ZNZ)
Asia Africa (BKK-xDOH-ZNZ)
But notSouth Pacific Africa (AKL-xDOH-CMN)
South America Africa (EZE-xDOH-ZNZ)
Asia Africa (BKK-xDOH-ZNZ)
Africa Europe (I tried MBA-xDOH-CDG and MBA-xDOH-OSL)
For each of the above allowed routings, the redemption charge matched the charge for a direct routing, so no extra RDM were being charged.And I was able to get to the final payment page for each of them.
I put one on 5-day hold; I might even buy it😊
#540
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: RDU <|> MMX
Programs: AA EXP 2MM, SK EBS
Posts: 12,453
For some time, redemptions from Nth America to Africa have allowed routing via Doha on QR
Well I was exploring redemption options for a planned RTW trip next year, and I have discovered that aa.com allows additional routings via Doha. The routings I have found are:
And I was able to get to the final payment page for each of them.
I put one on 5-day hold; I might even buy it😊
Well I was exploring redemption options for a planned RTW trip next year, and I have discovered that aa.com allows additional routings via Doha. The routings I have found are:
South Pacific Europe (AKL-xDOH-AMS)
South Pacific Africa (AKL-xDOH-CMN)
South America Africa (EZE-xDOH-ZNZ)
Asia Africa (BKK-xDOH-ZNZ)
But notSouth Pacific Africa (AKL-xDOH-CMN)
South America Africa (EZE-xDOH-ZNZ)
Asia Africa (BKK-xDOH-ZNZ)
Africa Europe (I tried MBA-xDOH-CDG and MBA-xDOH-OSL)
For each of the above allowed routings, the redemption charge matched the charge for a direct routing, so no extra RDM were being charged.And I was able to get to the final payment page for each of them.
I put one on 5-day hold; I might even buy it😊