For the past three weeks or so, American AAdvantage hasn't had access to many Qatar Airways award seats. While not all flights were blocked, it seemed like a majority of flights between the US and Doha were impacted (the issue wasn't quite as prevalent for flights between Doha and other points), in both economy and…
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Lucky,
I've seen phantom spaces on EY website recently. When I called aa to book, they couldn't see what was displayed on Etihad guest award (saver). Any advice?
Put a business flicket on hold SEZ-DOH-DFW a few days ago, and ticketed today, with no problems at all either time.
@JS -- call the AA office in Australia. This has been an issue with AA US reservations for years now. IME, the AA office in Australia can see and book EY award space, while the AA reservations desk in the US just can't see (or doesn't know how to see) that same EY space. I've booked several EY tickets with AA miles thru the AA office in Australia via Skype.
@ Ben -- I successfully booked two business class awards ATL-DOH-CPT-DOH-ATL on QR using AA miles on July 30. The AA agent had no issues booking the space, which I had located using BA via KVS Tool. I wasn't even aware of this problem. Maybe I was just lucky!
Couldn't book today (8/5) over the phone. Qatar availability showed up on Qantas site and the AA agent verified it. 30+ mins with 2 agents each going to the help desk. Both were fruitless and didn't have any answers. Advised me to call back another day.
are there any routes to/from the US where Qatar first class is available/bookable?
AA call centre south pacific just brilliant.
Outstanding customer service.
Just booked middle east to abu dhabi to sydney to melbourne EY QF ticket for 100k points and $80 aussie dollars.
Long haul is first apartment
Also any advice for abu dhabi first lounge as i have a seven hour transit.
Is it worth staying in lounge or taking hotel
Would appreciate any advice
Thanks
@T.
Qatar's only longhaul plane with a separate first class cabin is the A380* and they don't fly it to the US.
*Qatar markets their Business Class as First for flights within the Middle East and those are sometimes served by longhaul aircraft.
Lucky - please let us know when Qatar will send the A350 to LAX.
Those old 777 seats are killers.
Just tried to book again today ,JNB to JFK business class 2 seats for June 2018. Same thing, they see the seats, but can't ticket.
This is still ongoing. BA shows availability for JFK-DOH (QR0701/0702, q-suites) in Feb18 but North American AA agents don't see the same availability. Suggestions? Australia?
BA has also a reduced availability now. I hope that this will change soon. I need to book some tickets for November 2018