Very painful/time consuming trying to find Qatar Avios flights

[nectar collector]

tazwake wrote:

sturgeon wrote:

The Qatar site is a nightmare to use as it involves manually checking every single date, there are plenty of award seats available but 98% seem to be double Avios seats and I can’t find an easy way of finding the standard priced reward seats.

I’ve had similar problems. I was looking at flights from Doha to Sydney. The calculator claims this is a 90k Avios trip each way.

However, when I went to redeem, I tried every date between tomorrow (9 July 2023) and 9 July 2024 and every date came up as 133,000 Avios each way. There is only one flight to choose from. Nothing on it says double points and there is no option for a non-double point flight.

It seems like the promise of a 90k flight to Sydney is a bit, “misleading”.

Was intrigued by this….just had a look on QR site for various dates in June 2024…..I am seeing some dates which show business availability for 70k Avios plus 500 QAR one way (so would be 140k return) , and some dates where it shows 140k one way (ie double Avios) but instead of the green flag showing against those, there is now something that says ‘flex’. So it looks like the way of showing the double Avios options has been changed? Example of this is 8th June 2024, and 9th June 2024. Lon to Sydney via Doha should be 90k each way single Avios.

[Fife Flyer]

While I can’t find Avios availability when searching for flights from Edinburgh to Bangkok via Doha on the dates I want, I can find availability when searching for each leg individually on BA.com. Can I phone BA and ask for these flights to be priced and ticketed as a single flight?

[duggie1982]

Fife Flyer wrote:

While I can’t find Avios availability when searching for flights from Edinburgh to Bangkok via Doha on the dates I want, I can find availability when searching for each leg individually on BA.com. Can I phone BA and ask for these flights to be priced and ticketed as a single flight?

Yes, give them a call, depending on who you get they might need to send it to back office to calculate the Avios and tax but you should be able to work it out the way you have searched on BA.com

I had an issue going from EDI to Phuket but choosing just QR flights let me book online, when it included BA flights then the system did not want to work