Reply To: Qatar Airlines – Australia Dec 2025

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phantomchickenz wrote:

I flew to Melbourne last December, and will be looking to book Auckland for Dec 2025. Finding two seats in business is ‘probable’ if you time it right, and you’re also likely to get an extra one if you’re willing to pay the double Avios. We got four of us there for 90+90+180+180k. Or nab two seats for your companions, and pay cash yourself and get almost enough tier points for Silver status with BA.

Yes, outgoing and return are booked separately, but finding a return in early Jan (if that’s what you’re thinking) could be very difficult.

If you can’t find seats from Heathrow, try other departure locations. Birmingham, Brussels, Paris, or anywhere else that is relatively easy to get to (probably cheaper taxes too) – although it’s possible that if the DOH-Oz leg is fully booked then in that case changing departure location won’t help.

Best advice is to play around as much as you can in advance with dummy bookings to get a feel for how it all works, so you’re ready when the seats open up.

This is really helpful, thank you, did you book your trip last year with Qatar or another airline? Did you fly back out of Melbourne same route?
That’s interesting re more seats coming up for double in BC, we could do that. I just don’t fancy paying double for all seats, particularly if we end up having to book economy.
Yes, I had thought about the return being tricky, it’s a bit of a risk but worst case senario we pay for the return and try and find a cheap deal!
I do wonder if it’s going to be a nightmare trying to book for Dec 25 given it’s the Ashes as well!