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Qatar sale: Stockholm to Auckland, business, for £1500 to December – & earns 600 BA tier points

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I dropped this in as an extra article because I didn’t anyone booking the Copenhagen to Auckland fare (£2,300) that I wrote about in our main Qatar Airways sale feature today without seeing this.

As mentioned in the comments to that article there is an exceptionally good business class fare between Stockholm and Auckland currently available.

This is not part of the main sale and is valid for travel until mid December.

It comes out at 17,368 Swedish Krona:

…. which is £1,522 return.

You must use the promo code MASTERCARD – outlined on this page of the Qatar site – to get this price.  It is a couple of hundred pounds more expensive otherwise.

The fare rules appear to be:

Book by 3rd May

Complete travel by 15th December (10th December if using the MASTERCARD promo code)

Minimum stay 5 days

Maximum stay 1 month

No travel 27th June to 27th July or 1st August to 15th August

Ticket is cancellable for a penalty of US$800 (double check this during the booking process – whatever the Qatar site shows is what counts)

You should earn 600 British Airways tier points for this itinerary which is enough for a British Airways Silver card – although you would still need to have taken 4 cash British Airways flights during your current tier point year before you are upgraded.

Between Stockholm and Doha you get a brand new Boeing 787 – I reviewed that business class product here and the official Qatar 787 page is here.  Between Doha and Auckland you will get an older Boeing 777 – I reviewed that business class product here – but if you very lucky and travel late in the year it might have been refitted with the amazing new QSuite.

Remember that British Airways will no longer check through baggage to other airlines.  If you are transferring on the same day from London leave enough time to collect your luggage, go landside and recheck it.  Coming back, Qatar Airways should check it through to London even if that is on a separate ticket.

The Qatar / Stockholm offers page is here.  Full details of the Mastercard promo code are here.

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Comments (58)

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  • Kevin says:
    27 Apr27 April 13:18

    I mentioned this on another HfP thread today. Last month when I travelled back from AKL (via DOH to FRA) and had connecting flights from FRA to LCY with BA, Qatar in AKL refused to check my bags through to LCY. They double-checked at my request, but still refused to do so. Not the correct policy, I know but bear in mind if you are on a tight connection (we had 4 hours, so wasn’t a problem).

  • Alex W says:
    27 Apr27 April 14:59

    Mrs W is considering booking a one-way redemption from DOH to LHR and missing the last leg of our Qatar Ex EU and the return BA positioning flight. This gets her home 12 hours earlier than planned, and I would take the original flights with the baggage. Are there any serious risks in doing this or should it be OK?

    • Barry cutters says:
      27 Apr27 April 15:06

      No. Make sure you check the bags in in your name and not hers obviously.
      And make sure she checks in for the Qatar flight . This will keep the seat next to you free, and also she will probably still get the tier points /avios.

      • Alex W says:
        27 Apr27 April 15:13

        Interesting, thanks for the info. So when she’s a no show, what should I tell them? Or just keep quiet?

        • Barry cutters says:
          27 Apr27 April 15:34

          They will see you linked on the booking and ask you.
          just say she isn’t flying .
          Thats all they want to hear to get the flight off the ground.

          I’m not saying 100% you will get points , but its likely.
          Happened to me when my missus couldn’t make a Ba001 flight last year.

          Also i have often booked a couple of flights in situations where it was cheaper to book a new one way than change the booking.I check in for both and get the points normally,- Both these situations are BA however so could be different.

  • mart says:
    27 Apr27 April 15:24

    OT
    Anyone used real transfers recently made a booking saturday ,no confirmation email.
    Sent a follow up email ,no response?

    Anyone recommend any reasonably prices transfers from central London to heathrow.

    • Brian says:
      27 Apr27 April 16:04

      Simple Airport Transfers is one I have used. About £30 from South Kensington to Heathrow. Decent service. You can choose to pay the driver, too, so no need to pay in advance.

  • jamie says:
    27 Apr27 April 15:49

    looks like fare is dead at 15:49

    might have been an error fare

    • Rob says:
      27 Apr27 April 16:20

      Hope not, or I will need to write another article for the emails tomorrow!

      EDIT: no, fare is still there, just checked the dates in the screenshot and it still prices the same

  • Kevin says:
    27 Apr27 April 16:26

    Yep – definitely still there

  • NigelM says:
    27 Apr27 April 16:46

    a fun read: http://www.npr.org/2017/04/27/525415187/flight-overbooked-perfect-these-frequent-flyers-want-to-get-bumped

  • the real harry1 says:
    27 Apr27 April 19:16

    Personal recommendation

  • Damien s says:
    27 Apr27 April 19:48

    I have a BA / AmEx companion voucher – does anyone know if I can redeem on a one world flight like this? Thx

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