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LAUNCHING MONDAY …. our biggest ever mileage giveaway

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We have got together with Qatar Airways to run another exclusive competition.  On Monday we will be launching the most generous mileage competition we have ever run.

There will be two prizes of 250,000 Qatar Privilege Club Qmiles each.

Yes, we have HALF A MILLION miles to share between two lucky Head for Points readers.

Whilst it is always difficult to value airline miles, you should easily be able to get £2,500 of value from the prize.

How far could 250,000 Qmiles take you?

The world is your oyster with 250,000 Qmiles in your pocket.

Here are just a few places you could travel with 250,000 Qmiles to spend, based on a UK departure and assuming you fly on Qatar Airways:

  • one return ticket to Singapore in Business for 150,000 Qmiles
  • one return ticket to Sydney in Business for 180,000 Qmiles
  • two return tickets to Delhi in Business for 2 x 110,000 Qmiles
  • top up with a further 8,000 Qmiles and get two return flights to Doha in First Class for 2 x 129,000 Qmiles
  • top up with a further 20,000 Qmiles and get three return tickets in Economy to Sydney

Of course, you can also spend them on flights on British Airways, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific or any of the oneworld alliance partners albeit redemptions on partner airlines are poorer value.  Qatar Airways has some additional airline partners of their own too.

If you want to head to North America on BA or American, for example:

  • one return ticket to Los Angeles in First Class is 255,000 Qmiles
  • one return ticket to San Francisco in Business Class is 170,000 Qmiles

Taxes and charges are due on all Qmiles bookings, as with all frequent flyer redemptions.  These are obviously your responsibility if you win.

If you have a handful of miles left, you can use them to pay for your purchases at the Qatar Duty Free shop at Hamad International Airport in Doha.

Alternatively, Qmiles can be converted into Le Club AccorHotels hotel loyalty points at the rate of 4500 to 1000, with a maximum conversion of 100,000 Qmiles per year.

Here is the Qatar Airways Mileage Calculator if you want to take a look at other options in case you win.

Make sure to check HfP on Monday to find out how to enter.  It couldn’t be easier, to be honest.

Comments (49)

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  • James says:

    Nice competition.

    I presume the redemptions you mention are at Qatar’s lowest rates which sadly are very difficult to get on most routes, certainly all the popular ones so most redemptions actually come in at the 2x rate.
    Sad and frustrating.

    Will be entering though 🙂


    one return ticket to Singapore in Business for 150,000 Qmiles
    one return ticket to Sydney in Business for 180,000 Qmiles
    two return tickets to Delhi in Business for 2 x 110,000 Qmiles
    top up with a further 8,000 Qmiles and get two return flights to Doha in First Class for 2 x 129,000 Qmiles
    top up with a further 20,000 Qmiles and get three return tickets in Economy to Sydney

  • James says:

    Will Qatar be lowering the points cost of upgrades given they’ve devalued upgrades recently 🙁

  • James says:

    The vast majority of dates for LHR-SIN in biz come in at a whopping 285k +£££ so winning 250k won’t even get you one return to Singapore on most dates 🙁

  • John says:

    It’s a very generous prize and I will certainly be entering, but the value to me is probably closer to £1500 than £2500.

    Even if the 250K miles gets 1.4 returns to SYD – I would be willing to pay £1800 in an ex-EU sale which earns £100 worth of avios and 1.4x of that is £2400. Taxes and fees on 1.4 returns to SYD come to about £900, hence £1500 value.

    Then there are the harder to quantify losses of not being able to use every last mile won, or having to buy extra miles (or crediting to QR instead of BA) and forgoing TPs. While there is a chance of getting ex-LHR flights, availability may be an issue and may end up going ex-EU anyway.

  • James says:

    €1,100 of Club Accor points is a nice win.
    (Although can’t do it all in one year, as Rob mentions).

  • James says:

    Sorry to go on about it but…..

    A warning to those unfamiliar with QMiles, don’t rely on the QCalculator when planning what to do with these miles. Actual redemptions in business class are often much higher than the calculator indicates.

    Not trying to be down on the competition & prizes, it’s very generous. Just trying to give a bit of reality to what the prize can probably get most people.

  • roberto says:

    Great prize
    Planning on me winning one half and my wife the other..

    • Worzel says:

      You beat me to it on the comments front-had already decided that you’d bagged the prize !

      Fair is fair though-you’re due a points top up! 🙂 .

  • Steve says:

    Flipping heck chums, why the Saturday morning gloom?!

    They are going to be free miles, I can’t believe all the negativity above, QA have a good product and I refuse to believe that with some decent DD, someone can’t make this work out positively, even if the ‘value’ is a little less than £2.5k. I for one will be entering, hopefully those moaning give it a miss to open up the field….

    Anyhow, enough ranting – time to prep for some rugby….happy Saturday all!

    • Jimmy says:

      does that involve packing your kit or a run to tesco to stock up on some ales & crisps?

    • Alex Sm says:

      Well said!

      “I for one will be entering, hopefully those moaning give it a miss to open up the field….“

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