Amazing business deals (Avios earning) from Qatar Airways – Maldives £907, Singapore £837

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• JamesW says:

  12 Jan12 January 19:25

  Only twice the cost of an economy ticket is a very keen price.

• JamesW says:

  12 Jan12 January 19:30

  OSL-BKK in Nov booked yesterday. Forgot to check the Ts&Cs on the tripple miles promotion and just went ahead and booked on gotogate. Under £600 but as a QR platinum I’d have got quite a few extra miles which I think probably would have been worth the extra £180 or so to book direct 🙁

  Never mind. It is tripple miles on the base miles not the whole lot.
  Calculator says its a little over 25,000 OSL-BKK in bus for a plat, was thoroughly fuming with myself when I thought that could have been 75,000 but it would be less than that and I can’t figure out what the ‘base miles’ amount would be unless its the same as the 15,000 in bus for burgundy.

  Anyone know how many miles I could have effectively bought for my £180 by booking on the QR site ?

  Be Gentle – schoolboy error, pulled the trigger a little early in my eagerness 🙂

• knifehandchop says:

  12 Jan12 January 19:54

  Just booked CPH-SYD via DOH for me and the missus on gotogate for £1,177 each in I/business. Have been following the blog for a while now and formulating my points plans but couldn’t resist this opportunity to stopover in CPH, where there are some great restaurants, and get to fly business on 777 and 787 for such a low price and earn 600 TPs. Now just trying decide whether or not to nail SCH with the TPs or request the BA grace period and get GCH with them – travel falls right across my TP collection year end.

  Thanks to Raffles for posting up this promo, cheaper business class seats than when I went to JFK over new year after the last BA/Avios for cash sale, and I get to spend time in the QR Doha lounge which looks amazing!

  • Lady London says:

    12 Jan12 January 21:45

    Well done @knifehandchop. What dates did you find this for, please

    • knifehandchop says:

      12 Jan12 January 23:29

      Oct 4-12, had to fiddle a bit to find pricing as the tickets were disappearing throughout the day.

  • Kathy says:

    13 Jan13 January 09:05

    There’s the odd ticket still there in early September for around £1100, OSL-SYD. Only one seat left each.

    There’s a few more around CPH-SYD for just under £1200.

    Both have 19+ hour connections in Doha, though.

    • knifehandchop says:

      13 Jan13 January 10:21

      Ended up with 9hr wait in Doha, but given the lounge access and price of ticket I’m not too fussed. Shower, cigarette, spot of lunch and a movie.

      • Kathy says:

        13 Jan13 January 11:21

        You did very well, there.

        • Lady London says:

          14 Jan14 January 12:16

          I grabbed one of these 2 months ago for £1500. Though I was doing quite well at the time! Am now kicking myself because I could now pay £400 less. ***s law my booking was also on first round of these with the nonrefundable nonchangeable condition on it. Otherwise I’d change right away. The 2nd round, about a month ago, apparently was also refundable. But who would have thought there would be this further improvement in prices?

          I did get the perfect 3 hours or so in Doha, though, in each direction on the ticket I booked.

• Paul says:

  13 Jan13 January 07:48

  Is there an article on the pros and cons of crediting miles to Qatar? I have a flight to the Far East and now to oz on potentially triple miles with them so not sure it’s obvious to convert to BA? No idea really!

  • Polly says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:28

    See my comment jan12th 8.11… Really depends if you prefer to go east then QR is better. But, if you do the USA and ROW plus RFS plus use a 241 in F every year, then BAEC is the better, that’s just from experience. Plus no family ac in QR which is a pain. The BAEC wins out that way too….really personal choice. We mix it up but keep all miles in BAEC. Every second trip we book QR J then BA F using our annual 241. Usually heading to SE Asia though.

    • Paul says:

      13 Jan13 January 13:04

      How do the earning and burning and taxes compare between them?

      • Polly says:

        13 Jan13 January 17:10

        Pricing for LHR at almost the same, earn rate now same almost as BA. Very diff to do Upgrade using q miles. All locals earn huge amounts of qmiles and bag all the J seats available. You have to call,nearly every day, as online you have to request it ! That’s just what we experienced for about 5 yrs. hate to say it but BAEC is one of the best to navigate and use actually. Certainly the most flexible. No probs getting our miles to BAEC, and got sliver from one trip return to HKT, plus our 4 short BA sectors remember, so well worth the QR run that time.

• Ruth says:

  13 Jan13 January 08:20

  I have managed to fine fantastic return flights via gotogate, but open jaw tickets (to Singapore, back from Hong Kong) are a lot more expensive. Is the sale only on return flights?

• James says:

  13 Jan13 January 09:30

  From QA website;

  Terms and conditions

  •Offer period: 11th-17th January 2016.
  •Travel period: 19th January – 15th December 2016. All travel must be completed by 15th December 2016. Blackout dates apply.
  •”50% Off” is based on current year-round offers Economy Saver and Business Saver fares (fare portion only and not on taxes and surcharges).
  •Fares displayed in the table above are the lowest adult return prices per person including taxes, fees, and airport charges as at 6th January 2016 for various travel periods; all available fare options and applicable rules will be displayed at the time of booking.
  •Valid on Qatar Airways operated flights worldwide, with the exception of all itineraries to Jeddah.
  •Discount applies to Economy and Business Class return tickets. For flights where Business Class is not operated, First Class is applicable.

  • Ruth says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:04

    Oh well, my husband is a nervous flyer and would never agree to 4 flights in business when we can fly direct anyway 🙁

    • JamesW says:

      13 Jan13 January 16:25

      Just book it and sedate him. A-Team style !!

      • Ruth says:

        13 Jan13 January 16:52

        Very tempting! Our first flight together was on our honeymoon, and I honestly thought that I had done something to upset him when we went very very quiet…. he says business class would be wasted on him as he would still hate every minute of it anyway. Maybe I will go business class and leave him in economy!

    • Lady London says:

      14 Jan14 January 12:33

      And you married this man ? 🙂

• great_circle says:

  13 Jan13 January 09:41

  Slightly off topic: how long does it usually take for avios and tier points, earned on QR flights, to appear on a BAEC account?

  • sav says:

    13 Jan13 January 11:43

    usually 24-48 hrs, longest I have waited is 72hrs, but that was on a CX operated flight with QR flight number as a codeshare.

    • great_circle says:

      13 Jan13 January 14:23

      Hmm, after 10 days there has been no change in the number of avios and TP’s on my BAEC account. I understood (ba.com) it can take upt o 28 days but I was just curious what the normal period would be.

  • Polly says:

    13 Jan13 January 15:52

    Very quickly after our last HKT flight in autumn. One was the next day, forget which leg tho….

  • great_circle says:

    15 Jan15 January 03:01

    My account now shows an increase of 280 TP so it took 11 days this time.

• Umberto says:

  13 Jan13 January 11:36

  I booked a flight this morning from gotogate for 600£, so they are still available :). 7 night Oslo BKK!

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