Get up to 25% off Qatar Airways flights and 2,500 bonus Avios

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• Zed says:

  25 Aug25 August 08:41

  I rarely see anything that resembles a “discount” when considering QA. Every time they advertise these offers, nothing substantive is ever available

• LostAntipod says:

  25 Aug25 August 08:55

  I was a big fan of Qatar and used them every year to Sydney and Asia, but after the way they handled my last flight cancellation I am very reluctant to use them again.
  Summary: J class, flight cancelled 90 mins after boarding, kept in baggage hall for 4+ hours “while they sorted us premium pax separately”, no meals or water, no help from contact desk or online, ground staff finally admitted QR would not book us on alternative carriers and we would fly on the next day’s flight . I had to use staff mobile phone to speak to their agents directly and demand rebooking. Finally put on a QF evening flight…that turned out to be 12 hours delayed as well. Overnighted in UK without my luggage so I arrived in Sydney after 50+ hours in the same clothes. Zero goodwill or compensation from QR other than the mandatory EU penalty AND they asked me to sign a waiver (I didn’t). First world problems I know , but they don’t care about Eu261 obligations or your past or future custom. Off to Syd again for Xmas as is my habit – not with QR obvs.

  • Lady London says:

    25 Aug25 August 13:14

    Surely you claimed your hotel and transport to and from, meals for the extra wait time? as well as the compensation.

    It sounds like both Qantas and Qatar Airways owed you this.

    What was the sequence of announcements on board the QR aircraft after you boarded till they admitted they weren’t flying and what reason did they give?

    • Paul says:

      25 Aug25 August 23:24

      Yep QR on the hook for cancellation comp, QF for delay and duty of care comp.

    • LostAntipod says:

      1 Sep1 September 09:18

      @LadyLondon it’s a long story. As far as meals go, I was flown from MAN to LHR so I got a scone on that flight. Due to QR keeping us in the baggage hall until I negotiated a flight, and then spending 2 hours airside at the QF transit desk at LHR, there was no other time or place for meals until I was put in a hotel at LHR by Qantas, who provided a voucher for dinner and the hotel’s awful pre-flight “go bag” for breakfast (a bowl of cereal from a box was one of the ingredients, not ideal on a 530am airport bus). What’s ironic is in MAN , QR deplaned J class first, and fed Y on the plane with sandwiches brought onboard as we deplaned; Y were then fairly promptly bussed to (presumably) LHR for alternate flights while J was told to stay in the baggage hall… for 4 hours, when I left to get the rebooked flight to LHR. So I had no meals or transport to compensate. I haven’t even mentioned the hours on the phone (mostly on hold) with both QR and the QF to try and rebook the longhaul and to fix my local QF connection in Aus. It took 3 different QF call centres until I was able to move the response from “nothing we can do” to “we’ve rebooked you straight from Darwin to Sydney instead of making you fly to Brisbane and then onto Sydney as you had planned’.
      Announcements on QR were like “you’ve probably noticed we haven’t left the gate…technical issue…” regular updates every 30 mins or so.
      I got the standard £520 from both QF and QR. Aside from being knackered and spending 2+ days in the same clothes, I missed a dinner in Brisbane and lost the next day in Sydney which was intended to help set up my brothers 50th birthday party (the day after) I relayed the whole sorry story to QR (more than what is here, and highlighting their complete avoidance of EU261 obligations throughout) and their response was that they are the worlds #1 airline and other platitudes.

• Tominoz says:

  25 Aug25 August 09:56

  Been checking for 2 hours….there are no discounts on the majority of normal fares so far even with the code entered. Fake sale.
  I’m QR Platinum, still waiting over 6 months for a refund on an unused ex covid J voucher….very disappointed in the airline post covid. Prices are almost double 2019 levels and with the World Cup coming up soon forget anything routing through Doha during November or December.

• ADS says:

  25 Aug25 August 10:15

  Destinations: Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Adelaide, Almaty, Ahmedabad, Amman, Amritsar, Abu Dhabi, Baku, Beirut, Baghdad, Bangkok, Bangalore, Brisbane, Mumbai, Basrah, Kozhikode, Kolkata, Cebu, Colombo, Kochi, Cape Town, Clark, Dhaka, Dar Es Salaam, Delhi, Dammam, Denpasar, Durban, Dubai, Entebbe, Erbil, Goa, Hanoi, Phuket, Harare, Hyderabad, Isfahan, Islamabad, Sulaimaniyah, Jeddah, Djibouti, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kilimanjaro, Kanos, Karachi, Khartoum, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Luanda, Luxor, Lahore, Lagos, Lusaka, Chennai, Muscat, Medina, Melbourne, Mogadishu, Mashhad, Maldives, Manila, Maputo, Multan, Nagpur, Nairobi, Najaf, Perth, Peshawar, Port Harcourt, Riyadh, Seychelles, Ho Chi Minh, Sharjah, Singapore, Sialkot, Salalah, Sydney, Shiraz, Tunis, Tbilisi, Tehran, Thiruvananthapuram, Windhoek and Zanzibar

• Aston100 says:

  25 Aug25 August 10:32

  I’ve said this many times in the past: Qatar discounts and promos are almost always bordering on lies.

  Take this current one for example.
  Economy flight from MAN to KUL (just as an example). £1039 normal price or £1007 with the 25% code. This represent approximately 3% discount.
  I understand taxes and charges are not discounted, but the marketing is really misleading.

  Yes I’m still annoyed by their fake ‘teachers promo’ from a couple of years ago which was impossible to redeem from the UK.

  • Rob says:

    25 Aug25 August 12:46

    Many readers used that promo and I got the ‘thank you’ emails to prove it!

    • Aston100 says:

      25 Aug25 August 16:21

      Not in English school holidays they didn’t Rob.

      • LS says:

        25 Aug25 August 19:36

        +1

• Steve in Croydon says:

  25 Aug25 August 10:50

  So no real savings it seems, as usual with QR. And they will probably pull the offer early along with the 2,500 bonus Avios, just like they did with the 2,500 offer to join PC a few months ago.

• ADS says:

  25 Aug25 August 10:52

  I just did a sample booking to test the “discount”

  London to Durban 8th to 15th March 2023 – choosing cheapest option (apart from crazy long connections)

  Fare without code: £702
  Fare using discount code: £685
  Discount: 2.4%

  Have they mixed up 25% with 2.5% ??

• points_worrier says:

  25 Aug25 August 11:16

  Dear HfP,
  I realise Qatar are probably paying you to promote this, but I really would expect an independent blog to report the fact that people are getting between 2 or 3% off with the code, rather than the reported higher levels. Otherwise it is just innacuracy. Which I would hope HfP would put themselves above. To maintain QR’s positive slant, you can ask them to comment, and reproduce their response.

  • Rhys says:

    25 Aug25 August 11:28

    Sorry – just realised the article wasn’t marked as sponsored, have updated it.

    To answer your question, we unfortunately were not provided the lead-in fares in advance!

    • Andrew says:

      25 Aug25 August 16:34

      The lack of any analysis (which you’ve now had time to do) is surprising for normally a quite on-the-ball blog, it’s omission is quite conspicuous as I assume goes against your contract with QR.

      I don’t necessarily blame you, you’re a business, but the downside is unless it’s ‘mistake fare’ territory or product related I ignore all QR content as hot air from Al Baker – which isn’t great for their brand as it grinds down engagement over time.

      Even BA isn’t this bad, now and again I’ll check some dates in the same. But with QR I wouldn’t even waste my time reading the article.

    • John T says:

      25 Aug25 August 22:28

      You should have held publishing until Qatar can provide you with examples of real discounts. Without that the offer is very misleading.

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