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• mr_jetlag says:

  6 Sep6 September 06:49

  I thought the 5000 mile route change had been massively watered down by QR? Can the change be done any time or only within a narrow window after booking?

• Riaz says:

  6 Sep6 September 06:59

  Qatar – if they let you change to any city within 5,000 miles for free, why wouldn’t you book say Nairobi and then swap for Cape Town?

  • mr_jetlag says:

    6 Sep6 September 07:07

    Like many Qatar promos, looks amazing at first but the more you dig the worse it looks. Right now I can’t find recent info but changes only allowed for travel completed by 2020.

    • John W says:

      6 Sep6 September 07:13

      You are correct , flexibility is only until 31st December , – take from QR website now

      You can change your travel date or destination free of charge, as often as you need, for travel until 31 December 2020. You can change your origin to another city within the same country or any other destination we fly to within a 5,000 mile radius of your original destination.

  • Rob says:

    6 Sep6 September 10:26

    You can. Doubt they want me actively encouraging it though.

• Andrew says:

  6 Sep6 September 08:02

  Yes, it’s not relevant for this article to mention the flexible booking policy when the opening line says “to travel next year” as that policy ends at the end of this year.

• Nick G says:

  6 Sep6 September 08:43

  Rob

  Current Qatar Biz sale from Amsterdam. I was looking last night and priced up AMS to CPT for £1300, and JNB for about £1200. Q suite on both flights. Big saving flying ex eu!

  Also are you planning on running an article on Wizz air Discount Club? I see the prices advertised with it but don’t know much about it. Maybe if you’re planning on a few more articles re Wizz air might be worth it.

  • Rob says:

    6 Sep6 September 10:23

    Neither do I, but I’ll take a look.

    • Dominic says:

      6 Sep6 September 20:31

      I use it; I’d argue it’s worth it. Think it’s approx £25 per year.

      Save around £9 per flight, so £18 on a return – two trips in a year, and you’ve made your money back (+ a saving!). Regularly get flights at £8.99 each way (£1.49 ticket fee, £7.50 admin fee). Buy a cabin max bag to get the most out of their baggage allowance for a weekend.

• Andy says:

  6 Sep6 September 08:46

  On the Qatar letting your flight dates by up to two years, is there a cost for that?
  I have a business class ex eu flight to Bangkok in December which is looking doubtful to say the least. Can I just change the dates to the same time next year with no charge or would I have to pay fare differences etx

  • flyoff says:

    6 Sep6 September 09:56

    Re-arranging for travel completed this year at no extra cost. If you move into next year you pay the fare difference.

    • Andy says:

      6 Sep6 September 11:07

      Ah ok thanks. It’s all very annoying actually, I booked the flights in early January but because my flight back is at 1am on the 1st January 2021 they won’t let me change the destination in any of the flights without paying the fare difference. Do hope they might show some flexibility at so,e point for such an old pre Covid booking!

    • GHFP says:

      6 Sep6 September 12:16

      Thanks for explaining, FLYOFF.

      Most persons not in the travel industry would be confused when they say “Keep your ticket and use it when you are ready with our extended ticket validity, now valid for 2 years from the date of ticket issuance for greater flexibility” and, at the same time, “You can change your travel date or destination free of charge, as often as you need, for travel until 31 December 2020.”

      https://www.qatarairways.com/en-gb/travel-with-confidence.html

  • Lady London says:

    6 Sep6 September 12:28

    Fare diff payable.
    Personally with QR I would not risk this option unless no other choice. Great experience in the air but aware they are not fully subject to our ways of doing business in Europe.

• BSI1978 says:

  6 Sep6 September 09:17

  A “post Corona” stay…..?

  Whilst I typically try and adopt a positive outlook, that may be sometime in the future…..

  • Andrew says:

    6 Sep6 September 11:17

    Gotta love Rob’s positivity – we are looking at a couple of years before we can say we are going to Paris “post-corona” though.

    • TGLoyalty says:

      6 Sep6 September 14:52

      It depends how you see. COVID-19 will be around forever.

      But these past 6 months are very likely to be the only time you’ll see a full scale global lockdown because of it.

• ayearinmx says:

  6 Sep6 September 11:04

  so could you buy a Stockholm-Phuket ticket and then change it to Gatwick-Bali for no additional cost?
  Flying Stockholm gives some really good prices….

  • Andrew says:

    6 Sep6 September 11:19

    No because Stockholm and Gatwick aren’t in the same country. But the switch from Phuket to Bali is fine as the destinations are within 5000 miles of each other. This is only for travel until the end this year though.

    • ayearinmx says:

      6 Sep6 September 12:06

      gotcha…. misread the sentence

      i usually do a winter month in asia and although i’m not too positive it’ll happen this year, these are good deals

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