No avios flights in business showing on Qatar Perth to Paris in 2027

[nhearne]

Can anyone help- I am having trouble seeing avios business availability to europe for June 2027. I am looking at departing from Perth and getting no flights available across every month in 2027 for Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid etc. I also looked at flights out of Adelaide and Melbourne. and even Paris to Perth but there is nothing at all. The only route showing any availability is Perth to Rome. And using multi-city search- Perth to Doha is available on most days in June but no connection for Doha to Paris. I booked business in 2025 for October 2026 and had no issues, with plenty of availability.

 

[Human]

For the last 3-4 years, Qatar has not released any award seats to Europe during the northern summer (about June to August), except at the "Flex" rate which costs double the points.

It's clearly their policy: the northern summer is peak demand time. If you want to fly to Europe on Qatar using points during the northern summer, your only option will be the "Flex" rate.

But what you wrote comes as no surprise at all -- it's been happening every year for a while now.

So you're seeing no availability because the reward flights for the first half of the year would have been taken long ago. My guess is that you'll start seeing a little more availability for September 2027 and later when those flights start to be released in a few months.

 

[nhearne]

Thank you. Thats a great help. I am actually wanting to fly Sept/Oct 2027 but was checking to see when they release each days avios seats. Fingers crossed we get our seats. We moved all of our Amex platinum points across to Qatar before their devaluation from 2to1 to 3to1 happened. Now we have all of these avios points and will be feeling pretty jacked off if we can't use them. Thanks again.