Qatar Airways quietly rolled back its strict new rules requiring flight credits or co-branded card use before Avios could be redeemed for others.
I was so excited to see this, but back when these restrictions went in place I signed my husband up for a QR privilege account so I could eventually credit an AA flight. Now I see that you can’t add someone to your list that’s a privilege club member already. WTH, I thought this was about preventing fraud. Makes zero sense
You can add a privilege member to My List and a non privilege member to the Friends and Family list. So 2 different lists, depending if the person you want to add is a privilege member or not.
After I had to take a daytrip to Nantucket and credit it to QR to book tickets home for my family next summer. Well I suppose I didn’t HAVE to do that but it was a fun way of doing it! Glad they removed the restrictions though
Can you please, make your own research and tell us why we no longer can find Avios seats from Qatar to the US for 70K ?
All redemption seats are 140k Avios now, all year around.
Ben, once you’re done making your own research and telling us why we can’t find cheap Avios seats, could you please make me a cheeseburger with a side of fries and tomato sauce?
Unfortunately this is similar to all OW partners. I’ve seen DL style prices through AS for QR for a while. It’s a lot of phantom space too.
Good luck.
If you want a seat, you’ll redeem the points. There’s no point whining about it, that’s what it costs now.
Are you maybe searching for 2 people as it’ll show you the price for all passengers. I went to seats.aero and even the free version shows a seat DOH-YUL Nov 4 on a partner at the lower rate. I logged into Qatar, and sure enough, 70k business class.
Good find, FrozenKiwi. Unfortunately, that’s an outlier; there used to be greater availability like Hamza was hoping for, but it’s really hard to find these days.
It started around June this year. All through the previous 12 months I was monitoring QR space DXB-DOH-IAD/JFK and it was consistently there, for 2 people per flight, at 75k per flight. Starting in June this year, it just disappeared and options were only available at 150k.
Given the brokering issues. I’m not surprised they had big limitations.
So thankful! I did the BA 250 points / dollar deal. Got 250k miles for $1k spend and got $250 back in selling the product so only spent $750 in the end. Unfortunately, I did it quickly at 1am on my phone and logged into my dad’s BA account (that I manage) by accident. I didn’t have them labeled well as I don’t use BA often… Oops. But I didn’t think anything of it until they came out with that rule and had to pivot on my plan to use the points to a lesser option. But now I can go back!
Just a bummer that I missed that big award release they did back in late July. I managed to snag 1 J LAX-DOH for May but didn’t have enough points in my personal account for the other flights I’m watching.
Its going to be tough to see ME3 carriers gain traction in a world that has such volatile events right in their countries. This is the least they can do.
That really is the ‘elephant in the room,’ isn’t it. Qatar (and the other Gulf carriers) should’ve been removing restrictions (not adding them). Sheesh, given the security concerns, they should be running ‘hot deals’ to get people to come back!
Technically speaking, there wasn’t a requirement to earn miles by flying and credit them to QR. Buying a chocolate at duty free at DOH airport was enough…