spec119

Sorry I was referring to the post earlier by galaxy Chris I think where he says he buys award tickets sector by sector so seperate tickets x 4 hence my question about immigration

GalaxyChris

I use often BKK as base in Asia, if you have another ticket you can just transit from your plane to the other plane. You clear immigration only if you want to enter the country of for Domestic flights. Immigration can ask about how much money you have or flight ticket for leaving Thailand but It never happened to me (as European citizen few chance it happens to you too).

spec119

yes but just say for example you purchase LHR DOH and seperate DOH BKK you will surely have 2 pnr so I'm guessing you would have to claim baggage and check in landside for DOH BKK

Johnnieboy

You just ask them at LHR to check your bag through to the second flight, they are happy to do that, as they would be onto a second ticket on another oneworld airline. In the BKK example even with different tix on different airlines that won't interline, you may have to collect and recheck, but that's not an issue for immigration (provided your passport allows access to the country). You may also be able to check in for the onward flight at the airside transit desk and avoid immigration. This isn't a problem if hand luggage only (I did it recently on DXB -MCT-DOH), and there are many reports from various airports of being able to get the transit desk to retag your checked in bag without going landside, although I haven't tried this myself and would personally want to allow longer for that than collecting and rechecking.

dilvala

Maybe we should draft a letter to QRPC about the availability? The point we want to make is while other program out there are similar in nature, they do not have X2 availability for an entire year. If earning double miles is now the normal thing at Qatar during promo, doesn't mean the redemption for the whole year should be X2.

kl1987

I don't know if this has something to do with the unavailability of awards between DOH and LHR but for my upcoming flight from JNB (QR1364) to LHR (QR009), the flights with QR flight numbers show very limited availability where the exact same flight with the BA codeshare flight number BA7009 has plenty availability in all fare brackets.


The BA codeshare flights also doesn't show when searching with "Book using miles.

Dr. HFH

How did you get the QR system to display BA codeshare availability?

kl1987

It shows when making a normal booking. Results first show flights with QR flight numbers and then the exact flights with the BA codeshare flight numbers.

I just checked a few dummy bookings and looks like it only shows the BA codeshare for flights not originating at LHR. BKK - LHR and JNB - LHR both show them.

Johnnieboy

QR and BA have just extended their joint business agreement, which might explain BA flights showing up in the booking engine. Perhaps availability might settle down once the IT changes work through?

BA extends joint business agreement with Qatar Airways to 14 more cities

Ben_W

Now that LGW is bookable, I can see a fair bit of award availability.

lost_in_translation

So all the F award availability I could previously see to CAN and PER now also appears to have disappeared, meaning I can't find a single long haul F seat redemption anymore. Is this just an IT glitch on my QPRC account or have QR removed all long haul F redemption availability ....

synd

Nope all the F avaibility is gone....

lost_in_translation

Just when you thought QR couldn't make QPRC any less attractive!

spec119

Would the experts here think I've got a reasonable chance of a redemption upgrade Y to J QR 831 on 12th March at check-in

lifeonthego_k

Yes, get to the airport nice and early though.