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Jun 29, 2019, 10:23 am
#3887
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Kent, UK
Programs: BA Gold; Virgin FF; United Airlines; American Airlines; and was frequent c/c churner - RIP!
Posts: 940
I am considering stopping over in DOH on way back from SIN to ARN for a couple of days (instead of just passing through the airport) to see what Qatar has to offer. If I do, can I take advantage of QR's hotel offers or are these just for people with long transit stops? Advice welcome.
Jun 29, 2019, 4:11 pm
#3888
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: PAR
Programs: QR Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,088
I am considering stopping over in DOH on way back from SIN to ARN for a couple of days (instead of just passing through the airport) to see what Qatar has to offer. If I do, can I take advantage of QR's hotel offers or are these just for people with long transit stops? Advice welcome.
Jun 30, 2019, 6:01 am
#3890
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Tokyo
Programs: JAL Metal Card (OWE), SAS Eurobonus Gold (*G), Marriott Titanium (LTP), Tokyu Hotels Platinum
Posts: 21,153
Jul 1, 2019, 1:47 pm
#3891
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 31
I would probably go for AA. Since you already have miles there, and if you are not a very frequent traveller, splitting between Oneworld programs just means you get nowhere in terms of potential awards.
QRs own program har prohibitively expensive redemotions and very few redeeming features.
QRs own program har prohibitively expensive redemotions and very few redeeming features.
Jul 5, 2019, 8:24 am
#3892
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: DEN
Programs: DL PM, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Gold
Posts: 396
Hi all, looking to fly Qatar to or from Europe/Doha to either Australia (MEL, SYD, BNE, ADL) or AKL. This trip will be this coming late December (over Christmas). Across all of the routes, I'm finding virtually no award space available (AA miles are my currency). Does QR have some type of blackout for award availability over the Christmas timing? Or am I just getting unlucky?
Jul 5, 2019, 8:29 am
#3893
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Programs: TK Elite Plus,BAEC GGL,ITA Executive, AFKL Gold,QR Gold,HH Diamond,Bonvoy Gold,ALL Gold
Posts: 14,186
Hi all, looking to fly Qatar to or from Europe/Doha to either Australia (MEL, SYD, BNE, ADL) or AKL. This trip will be this coming late December (over Christmas). Across all of the routes, I'm finding virtually no award space available (AA miles are my currency). Does QR have some type of blackout for award availability over the Christmas timing? Or am I just getting unlucky?
Jul 6, 2019, 2:42 am
#3895
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: DEN
Programs: DL PM, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Gold
Posts: 396
Got it, thanks. ADL is the one city I’ve found some availability for. I was manly curious as I’m also considering flying Etihad and I’m finding far more availability most of the cities above in that 18/12 to 1/1 date range.
Jul 7, 2019, 6:17 pm
#3896
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Programs: Walmart Super Elite
Posts: 727
Hello everyone -- I'd like to look forward to my first flight on Qatar, assuming I can get what I can see on ITA. I'm attempting to book a domestic USA flight on AA in F, then book business class from the USA to CMB. Also a 2 day stopover in DOH would be great. I would like to book directly with Qatar and am not interested in using an OTA, based on recent experience. Do I need to call Qatar's phone call center to do this? This would be a cash purchase and not an award booking. I seem to dimly recall in a previous post that mixed class bookings could only be done using the telephone, but now I can't find anything by searching, except search results that relate to award bookings. Thanks in advance for any comments.
edited to add: multicity option on Qatar’s website doesn’t work, I assume because the first flight is a domestic AA flight not offered by Qatar. I am able to book the entire roundtrip on Qatar’s website in economy, but not in business/first.
edited to add: multicity option on Qatar’s website doesn’t work, I assume because the first flight is a domestic AA flight not offered by Qatar. I am able to book the entire roundtrip on Qatar’s website in economy, but not in business/first.
Last edited by Bago'peanuts; Jul 7, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Jul 8, 2019, 12:27 am
#3897
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: PAR
Programs: QR Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,088
Hello everyone -- I'd like to look forward to my first flight on Qatar, assuming I can get what I can see on ITA. I'm attempting to book a domestic USA flight on AA in F, then book business class from the USA to CMB. Also a 2 day stopover in DOH would be great. I would like to book directly with Qatar and am not interested in using an OTA, based on recent experience. Do I need to call Qatar's phone call center to do this? This would be a cash purchase and not an award booking. I seem to dimly recall in a previous post that mixed class bookings could only be done using the telephone, but now I can't find anything by searching, except search results that relate to award bookings. Thanks in advance for any comments.
edited to add: multicity option on Qatar’s website doesn’t work, I assume because the first flight is a domestic AA flight not offered by Qatar. I am able to book the entire roundtrip on Qatar’s website in economy, but not in business/first.
edited to add: multicity option on Qatar’s website doesn’t work, I assume because the first flight is a domestic AA flight not offered by Qatar. I am able to book the entire roundtrip on Qatar’s website in economy, but not in business/first.
You should not have the same problem because when booking a Biz international ticket with a connecting intra USA flight, you will get a intra USA First class connecting flight (because there's almost no Biz intra USA flights), so just try to book a simple return ticket and QR website should offer you various combinations mixing AA (and other QR partners in US like B6 and AS) First class (be careful it's first class because if first is sold out on that flight you might end with an eco flight) and QR flights.
Last edited by Matt4; Jul 8, 2019 at 12:39 am
Jul 9, 2019, 10:28 am
#3898
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
Programs: Walmart Super Elite
Posts: 727
The problem some people had with mixed class ticket was when they tried to mix Biz and Eco flights.
You should not have the same problem because when booking a Biz international ticket with a connecting intra USA flight, you will get a intra USA First class connecting flight (because there's almost no Biz intra USA flights), so just try to book a simple return ticket and QR website should offer you various combinations mixing AA (and other QR partners in US like B6 and AS) First class (be careful it's first class because if first is sold out on that flight you might end with an eco flight) and QR flights.
Jul 10, 2019, 10:27 am
#3899
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 655
If I have 2 $10k RT US to Asia business class tickets coming up, am I better to code those to AAdvantage (Executive Plat, ~1M miles), or create a Qatar account? Like the Qatar product better than AA and would look to fly them for personal use - the AA award availability is obviously minimal though.
Jul 10, 2019, 11:07 am
#3900
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: BOS/UTH
Programs: AA LT PLT; QR GLD; Bonvoy LT TIT
Posts: 12,753
If I have 2 $10k RT US to Asia business class tickets coming up, am I better to code those to AAdvantage (Executive Plat, ~1M miles), or create a Qatar account? Like the Qatar product better than AA and would look to fly them for personal use - the AA award availability is obviously minimal though.