What do Qatar Airways Avios flights cost from the UK?

Back in March 2022, Qatar Airways adopted Avios as its loyalty currency.

This brought many benefits to UK-based Avios collectors, including the ability to earn and spend Avios on the new airline, hotel and car hire partners listed here.

A secondary benefit was that Qatar Airways generally required fewer Avios for its redemptions than British Airways Executive Club. How few, though, wasn’t particularly clear.

We did know that Australia and New Zealand is a great sweet spot as we wrote here. You need 180,000 Avios return in Business Class compared to 250,000 – 300,000 on the ‘old’ British Airways pricing.

I am in Doha this week and I have got my hands on the Qatar Airways Avios redemption chart for flights from the UK. I don’t think this has been published before.

A few points to note:

• we ignored routes to the Americas and Europe as flying those from the UK via Doha makes no sense due to backtracking

• I wasn’t given taxes and charges figures but these vary depending on which direction you are travelling in and with FX movements from day to day

• if you are flying from London, you can book at these rates on EITHER ba.com or qatarairways.com, as long as you select Qatar Airways flights – the Avios pricing, availability and taxes are meant to be identical across both sites although there are glitches

• if you are flying from Manchester or Edinburgh, ba.com adds a 12,000 to 23,000 Avios (Business Class) each way surcharge based on the route length. You do not pay this surcharge if you book on qatarairways.com. For example, Manchester to Dubai is 57,000 Avios one way in Business Class on ba.com but 45,000 Avios on qatarairways.com. From London, it is 45,000 Avios on both sites.

• for some reason the surcharge does not apply to Manchester to Perth, however, which is 90,000 Avios one way in Business Class. From Edinburgh it is 113,000 Avios one way at ba.com or 90,000 Avios on qatarairways.com. This leads me to believe that this is an IT issue and not a ‘feature’.

• If you are in a British Airways Executive Club Household Account and need to use Avios from both accounts to make a booking, you will have to book at ba.com

• you can book at qatarairways.com from 360 days prior to departure – if you are booking the same flight at ba.com you need to wait until 355 days prior to departure

• if you book on qatarairways.com you may be offered flights at double the figures shown below. This are marked with a green square in the booking engine and represent ‘extra’ Avios availability which Qatar Airways is willing to make available for double Avios. You cannot see these extra seats on ba.com.

• you may find it easier to search for the onward leg first (eg Doha to Bangkok) and then look for the most suitable and available connection. This could be from Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester or Edinburgh, or even – to save on taxes – Amsterdam or elsewhere in Europe.

• Qatar Airways guarantees at least two Business Class seats per flight for Avios redemption

• if you do choose to book at qatarairways.com, this HfP article shows how to link your British Airways Executive Club and Qatar Privilege Club accounts

• you can’t use a British Airways American Express 2-4-1 Companion Voucher on Qatar Airways redemptions at this time

How much are Avios redemptions on Qatar Airways from the UK?

This list is correct as of 7th February 2023.

It excludes the Americas and Europe which, logically, you are unlikely to want to book via a transfer in Doha.

Qatar Airways currently flies to Doha from London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester and Edinburgh. All flights below require an aircraft change in Doha.

Remember that there is a 12,000 to 23,000 Avios each way ‘surcharge’ for Manchester and Edinburgh departures in Business Class if booked on ba.com. This does not apply at qatarairways.com. It may be a BA IT error which will disappear at some point so it is still worth checking on both sites.

We have not included First Class flights in this chart. First Class is only available on the A380 fleet which only operates on selected routes, and Qatar Airways does not guarantee to make any First Class reward space available.

Happy booking!

One-way prices from UK	Economy	Business
Abidjan	37,500	75,000
Abu Dhabi	22,500	45,000
Abuja	37,500	75,000
Accra	37,500	75,000
Addis Ababa	27,500	55,000
Adelaide	45,000	90,000
Ahmedabad	27,500	55,000
Alexandria	27,500	55,000
Algiers	37,500	75,000
Amman	27,500	55,000
Amritsar	27,500	55,000
Asmara	27,500	55,000
Auckland	45,000	90,000
Baghdad	22,500	45,000
Bali (DPS)	40,000	80,000
Bangalore	32,500	65,000
Bangkok	37,500	75,000
Basra	22,500	45,000
Beijing	37,500	75,000
Beirut	27,500	55,000
Cairo	27,500	55,000
Canberra	45,000	90,000
Cape Town	37,500	75,000
Casablanca	37,500	75,000
Cebu	40,000	80,000
Chengdu	37,500	75,000
Chennai	32,500	65,000
Chiang Mai	37,500	75,000
Chongqing	37,500	75,000
Clark	40,000	80,000
Colombo	32,500	65,000
Da Nang	37,500	75,000
Dammam	22,500	45,000
Dar es Salaam	32,500	65,000
Davao	40,000	80,000
Delhi	27,500	55,000
Dhaka	32,500	65,000
Djibiouti	27,500	55,000
Doha	21,500	43,000
Dubai	22,500	45,000
Durban	37,500	75,000
Entebbe	32,500	65,000
Erbil	22,500	45,000
Faisalabad	27,500	55,000
Gaborone	37,500	75,000
Goa	27,500	55,000
Guangzhou	37,500	75,000
Hangzhou	40,000	80,000
Hanoi	37,500	75,000
Harare	37,500	75,000
Ho Chi Minh (Saigon)	37,500	75,000
Hong Kong	37,500	75,000
Hyderabad	32,500	65,000
Isfahan	22,500	45,000
Islamabad	27,500	55,000
Jakarta	40,000	80,000
Jeddah	22,500	45,000
Johannesburg	37,500	75,000
Kano	37,500	75,000
Karachi	27,500	55,000
Kathmandu	32,500	65,000
Khartoum	27,500	55,000
Kigali	32,500	65,000
Kilimanjaro	32,500	65,000
Kochi	32,500	65,000
Kolkata	32,500	65,000
Kozhikode	32,500	65,000
Krabi	37,500	75,000
Kuala Lumpur	37,500	75,000
Kuwait	22,500	45,000
Lagos	37,500	75,000
Lahore	27,500	55,000
Langkawi	37,500	75,000
Luanda	37,500	75,000
Lusaka	37,500	75,000
Madinah	22,500	45,000
Male	32,500	65,000
Manila	40,000	80,000
Maputo	37,500	75,000
Marrakesh	37,500	75,000
Mashhad	22,500	45,000
Melbourne	45,000	90,000
Mogadishu	27,500	55,000
Mombasa	32,500	65,000
Multan	27,500	55,000
Mumbai	27,500	55,000
Muscat	22,500	45,000
Nagpur	32,500	65,000
Nairobi	32,500	65,000
Najaf	22,500	45,000
Pattaya	37,500	75,000
Penang	37,500	75,000
Perth	45,000	90,000
Peshawar	27,500	55,000
Phnom Penh	37,500	75,000
Phuket	37,500	75,000
Port Harcourt	37,500	75,000
Rabat	37,500	75,000
Riyadh	22,500	45,000
Salalah	22,500	45,000
Seoul	40,000	80,000
Seychelles	32,500	65,000
Shanghai	40,000	80,000
Sharjah	22,500	45,000
Shiraz	22,500	45,000
Sialkot	27,500	55,000
Singapore	37,500	75,000
Sohar	22,500	45,000
Sulaymaniyah	22,500	45,000
Sydney	45,000	90,000
Tehran	22,500	45,000
Tokyo (HND)	40,000	80,000
Tokyo (NRT)	40,000	80,000
Trivandrum	32,500	65,000
Tunis	32,500	65,000
Windhoek	37,500	75,000
Zanzibar	32,500	65,000

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (September 2023)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points.

Run your own business?

We recommend Capital On Tap for limited companies. You earn 1 Avios per £1 which is impressive for a Visa card, along with a sign-up bonus worth 10,500 Avios.

You should also consider the British Airways Accelerating Business credit card. This is open to sole traders as well as limited companies and has a 30,000 Avios sign-up bonus.

EDIT: Applications for this card are temporarily suspended due to IT issues with the British Airways On Business SME loyalty scheme.

There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.