Save in the Qatar Airways January sale – and get up to 4,000 bonus Avios for joining Privilege Club

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• R01 says:

  11 Jan11 January 04:57

  We’re a long way off the days of £1000 Qatar business flights to Asia (Even £800 ex-EU). I miss them

  • Qrfan says:

    11 Jan11 January 07:42

    It’s not Asia, but finnair have £1300 ish to Dubai, which is obviously a lot better than the £2k on offer here. New wide body seat on 3 of 4 flights too.

    • Alex G says:

      11 Jan11 January 08:20

      Dubai is in Asia.

      • Erici1875 says:

        11 Jan11 January 18:29

        Africa imo

• Ian says:

  11 Jan11 January 05:11

  Never been able to link my wife’s Qatar account to BA.

  Does anyone have any tips?

  Names are the same etc.

  • John says:

    11 Jan11 January 05:34

    Did QR fix the bug where hyphens in names didn’t work?

    • Alex G says:

      11 Jan11 January 06:36

      Spaces in surnames aren’t allowed either, which prevents you linking your Qatar account with your BA account and transferring avios.

      If you try to use Qatar Avios to book a redemption with a OW Partner, you can’t see the taxes and fees. I tried to do this recently. Took 45 minutes on the phone to follow up on a booking request. And I had a response yesterday to a service request form that I filled in on 31 December.

      Just logged in to my partners account for the first time in months. Had to do a password reset and enter a OTP 3 times.

      They may be wonderful to fly with, but they are a nightmare to deal with. Their IT seems worse than BA’s (and I wouldn’t have thought that was possible).

      Try and book a redemption flying on Qatar and most flights are priced at twice the going rate.

    • Rob says:

      11 Jan11 January 07:17

      Yes

• Andrew J says:

  11 Jan11 January 06:13

  It’s a shame that it’s an advertorial, so it doesn’t cover the much cheaper fares available from ex-EU airports.

• Greenpen says:

  11 Jan11 January 06:21

  I recently flew to BKK on LX at a cheaper price than the £2516 quoted by QR above. These sales, and QR is not the only one doing it, are becoming ridiculous, they’re not sales at all. The days of real sales seem to have gone.

  Check fares on Matrix ITA and if they are really available then I am almost sure your price will be cheaper than advertised sales! A fortnight in early March shows 7 airlines with cheaper fares than the QR quote above and a further 6 cheaper than the actual QR offer for that date, including the direct flight.

  Let’s stop these sales.

• Aston100 says:

  11 Jan11 January 12:24

  “Qatar Airways flies from London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham (relaunched this year) and Edinburgh.”

  Was this article written in late 2023?
  I definitely flew on Qatar out of Birmingham in July last year. Flights were available in June too.

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 12:57

    Sorry, I’m one of those people who takes about 6 weeks to realise its a new year 🙂

• OneStringSam says:

  11 Jan11 January 13:09

  Am I doing something wrong – cheapest I can find Tokyo in April is about £4500?

• ADS says:

  11 Jan11 January 17:53

  “one benefit of crediting Avios to Qatar Airways Privilege Club. You get your Avios at check-in … which means that you can use them in Qatar Duty Free during your stopover to buy from virtually all of the shops there”

  reminder: using Avios for Duty Free purchases is really poor value!

  to quote the HfP article: “You will get 0.65 cents per Avios redeemed, which is currently 0.53p. This is weaker than transferring your Avios to Nectar and spending them in Sainsburys, Argos or at eBay”

  • Rob says:

    11 Jan11 January 18:22

    Not arguing, but I am told that this has been astonishingly successful, mainly (I think) with wealthy Qataris who accumulated huge numbers of Avios but couldn’t be bothered to use them – but are happy to get a new handbag with them.

    • ADS says:

      12 Jan12 January 11:22

      good to hear that Rob 2024 agrees with Rob 2023 🙂

• Ashic says:

  11 Jan11 January 18:30

  “Sales” pffft. These airlines need competition to bring some sense in prices. I nabbed some avios club seats on the A380 (so not club suite) to Singapore, and did a price check. For two adults and a 14 year old, the cash price on the day from BA was only £11,500. And it wasn’t the most expensive on offer by a long shot.

  • Talay says:

    17 Jan17 January 20:46

    I also had offers to Singapore which I found surprising but I then checked and found it would be in the flying coffins 2-4-2 and I simply couldn’t put myself through that.

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