Lowest ever Qatar Airways UK Business prices (Perth £1,425) but you risk NO BA tier points

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• AY says:

  21 Apr21 April 10:26

  Hi

  Anyone know if I can get status credits if I credit these flights to Qantas? Hoping to go to Oz in summer.

  Thanks

  • Rob says:

    21 Apr21 April 13:53

    Qantas need to start recognising R class which they do not, yet. By the Summer, however, they probably will. Whether they backdate it to include tickets already issued – which BA is refusing to do – is a different question.

• Wallace Lo says:

  21 Apr21 April 10:43

  I can see that these ticket can’t be cancelled @ £350, but then it says refund not allowed. Can someone please clarify?

  Thanks
  Wallace

• Henry says:

  22 Apr22 April 06:49

  I flew BHX-DOH-SYD last week… no Avios or TP credited. Had no idea I wouldn’t get this – pretty annoyed about it.

  Just cancelled a BHX-DOH-JNB flight for 3 weeks time and rebooked with Etihad – not going to fly with an alliance that doesn’t reward without notice.

  • Rob says:

    22 Apr22 April 08:26

    When you did you book that? R-class tickets have only been on sale for a few weeks. If you booked much earlier than that it is simply a delay.

• Flying Vet says:

  22 Apr22 April 22:55

  Hi raffles

  Many thanks for posting about these sale fares. These business promo fares are impressive – Edi – Mle about a third of the ba price for lgw-Mle in j, so great for northern based people especially those trying to avoid our usual zika affected winter haunt of the Caribbean!

  I booked a couple of tickets yesterday on the hope of the trip being an option family wise nearer the time. All the way through the booking process on the Qatar website it gave the strong impression that booking a j class ticket using the r class j fares would be refundable for a cancellation fee. This shows at various stages of booking the flight – the fare details tab pop of terms and conditions, when searching the sale fares says cancellable for a fee of 400 usd, when searching the dates to book a business promo fare from Edi to Mle the fare details tab says cancellable for a fee of £279 ( looking at bhx- Mle says non cancellable). Looking at the compare fare tabs to compare the different j tickets it says the same. If you continue the booking process it says nothing to the contrary unless you open the fare rules ( tiny) link before you press confirm and pay, however when you receive your e ticket / confirmation it says it’s non cancellable! Not sure why you would open an obscure fare rules link to read these – when looking at the previous compare the fare tab shows all the different cancellation charges for the different types of j tickets. I challenged this today with them on the phone and was told that business promo tickets are non refundable and that this is due to the final selection of fare classes – and that this is clear if you read the fare rules link but that the compare fare tabs etc don’t necessarily apply to the flights you select. This seems confusing and unfair to me but I could make no headway with the phone agent, I very much want to fly the holiday but family circumstances may prevent this and I thought was buying a refundable ticket with a cancellation fee. Why does business promo bhx- Mle say non cancellable when you browse the fare details of the sale but Edi-Mle says cancellable for £279?

  I have screen shots of all this in case I need to cancel in the future. Any wisdom gratefully received!

  • Graham says:

    23 Apr23 April 15:40

    I’ve been trying to find out the details of change conditions on R class bookings with Qatar. I want to book flights to SYD, but there is a risk that family commitments will mean we have to fly to SIN instead. The small print fare rules say there is a $300 fee for changes but I don’t know whether a change in destination is allowed. There is a section on re-routing but I can’t get confirmation from Qatar. They don’t respond to emails.

    • Rob says:

      23 Apr23 April 17:56

      A change will also involve repricing based on the fare on the day you make the change. Unless there is a sale on at the time, you may be looking at an extra £1,000+ as well as the change fee.

• Jake says:

  23 Apr23 April 10:10

  Raffles, thanks so much for sharing details of these sales. We’ve booked EDI -BKK, HKT-BHX in biz for a little over £1k each for our 10th anniversary next year. A380 and 787 all the way (unless Qatar change something!). Even as a travel agent, I’d have struggled to be aware of these sale fares and could never have afforded biz otherwise, so cheers!

• Simon says:

  24 Apr24 April 16:54

  A little late on this one, but just so you’re aware if you’ve got access to Amex premium travel they’re consistently up t0 £200 cheaper than these sale prices. e.g. LHR – BKK is £2996 direct or £2894 through Amex. Bigger differences on other flights, but that’s an easy £100 saved on top of the sale price!

• Matthew says:

  25 Apr25 April 23:24

  Hi Raffles

  I’ve just booked my wife and I flights from BHX to PHK in business. Can’t wait as it’s the first time ever I will have gone business class. My question is about the frequent flyer points. You mention about not getting tier points with BA, so would I be better off giving my BA executive club number on my booking or my Qatar Qmiles number?

  Also do you know what lounge Qatar offer at BHX? Thanks

• Pail says:

  1 May1 May 11:01

  Asia miles so assume MPC now updated and accept R class on flights being flown from May 1…

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