As Qatar use Avios is it best to book an avios flight direct with them?
Jun 23, 22, 4:58 pm
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As Qatar use Avios is it best to book an avios flight direct with them?
In the next week I will be booking BKK - DOH - DUB for next year.
As Qatar now use avios should I register with them and book direct or carry on using BA?
Will the availability of redemption seats be the same? Quantity of avios be the same?
As Qatar now use avios should I register with them and book direct or carry on using BA?
Will the availability of redemption seats be the same? Quantity of avios be the same?
Jun 23, 22, 5:46 pm
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Originally Posted by Stormbel
In the next week I will be booking BKK - DOH - DUB for next year.
As Qatar now use avios should I register with them and book direct or carry on using BA?
Will the availability of redemption seats be the same? Quantity of avios be the same?
As Qatar now use avios should I register with them and book direct or carry on using BA?
Will the availability of redemption seats be the same? Quantity of avios be the same?
Availabilty is better.
Why not join, transfer avios across and investigate. It doesn't take much effort, though make sure crucial data is aligned correctly between the programmes (for some reason dates of birth have been tricky).
If you don't like what you see, you can send the avios back into your BAEC account and forget about it.
Jun 23, 22, 6:21 pm
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I'm not sure if you can use a household Avios pool with Qatar? Only Avios that you've got on your own account? Let's say I need to spend 100k Avios for me and my partner booking, I have 70k Avios, and my partner got 40k Avios. I can book flights on BA, but probably no way to book on Qatar website?
Jun 23, 22, 10:11 pm
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BA are light and day better than dealing with QR (if you needed to call them for instance), but I would still book with QR. If there is a flight cancellation for example rebooking with a QR ticket is slightly easier because they don't need reward availability in that instance if you had a preferred alternative.
Jun 24, 22, 1:35 am
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Originally Posted by :D!
If your name contains a hyphen or apostrophe you can't link your BAEC to QRPC.
Jun 24, 22, 1:41 am
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Originally Posted by IAN-UK
Availabilty is better.
Why not join, transfer avios across and investigate. It doesn't take much effort, though make sure crucial data is aligned correctly between the programmes (for some reason dates of birth have been tricky).
If you don't like what you see, you can send the avios back into your BAEC account and forget about it.
Why not join, transfer avios across and investigate. It doesn't take much effort, though make sure crucial data is aligned correctly between the programmes (for some reason dates of birth have been tricky).
If you don't like what you see, you can send the avios back into your BAEC account and forget about it.
Note you don't need to move your Avios from BA to QR, and back, to and fro. When doing an award booking on QR, if you have a linked BAEC account, QR will just pull the Avios shortfall directly from BAEC.
Jun 24, 22, 1:43 am
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Originally Posted by oruvin
I'm not sure if you can use a household Avios pool with Qatar? Only Avios that you've got on your own account? Let's say I need to spend 100k Avios for me and my partner booking, I have 70k Avios, and my partner got 40k Avios. I can book flights on BA, but probably no way to book on Qatar website?
Jun 24, 22, 1:52 am
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Originally Posted by AirbusA350
If I’m not wrong, I believe BA significantly reduced and now matches QR in both carrier surcharges and amount of Avios required for redemptions. So in theory there shouldn’t be much difference.
- European routes have the same Avios requirement for BA and QR, but fees on BA is significantly lower than QR.
- For long haul routes, Avios requirements can differ.
Surcharges:
- QR doesn't charge fuel surcharge unlike BA which does.
- But for all QR redemptions, there's an arbitrary non-refundable fee of US$70 per segment for business and first, and US$35 per segment for economy.
So you should check both, if the same flights are available through QR or BA, which option works out to be cheaper overall.
Jun 24, 22, 6:18 am
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Originally Posted by :D!
If your name contains a hyphen or apostrophe you can't link your BAEC to QRPC.
Jun 24, 22, 6:20 am
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Originally Posted by Schwann
BA are light and day better than dealing with QR (if you needed to call them for instance), but I would still book with QR. If there is a flight cancellation for example rebooking with a QR ticket is slightly easier because they don't need reward availability in that instance if you had a preferred alternative.
Jun 24, 22, 7:31 am
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Originally Posted by PGberkshire
Really? I had to phone QR to cancel a flight, waited 45 seconds to go through and then had the refund 3 days later....Can BA do that? I dont even get that s. GGL.
But I was referring more to the person on the other end of the phone. Unless you get one of the Doha based agents who seem more competent/empowered, calling QR can be an exercise in patience and just a typical naff overseas call centre experience. I've had some decent calls with QR but they're in the minority.
Jun 24, 22, 9:52 am
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Thanks for all of the information. We do have a household account and my portion is significantly less as I have just made a booking with Avios.com who automatically take the miles from the person who is making the booking.
That sort of scuppers me from making the booking but not my significant other. The next booking will probably need to dig into the total balance of our pot.
That sort of scuppers me from making the booking but not my significant other. The next booking will probably need to dig into the total balance of our pot.
Jun 24, 22, 7:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Stormbel
We do have a household account and my portion is significantly less as I have just made a booking with Avios.com who automatically take the miles from the person who is making the booking.
