At this stage upon discussions rather than 'maximising't he value of the points the mrs has decided we'll just book our flights on the basis of not having to pay for business to/from scandinavia, even though we aren't 'maximising' per se our flights by going through longer haul routes like say via canada, america etc?
We did manage to find a Zurich - Doha - Perth flight back earlier this week but it has since disappeared! What a pain! We searched up Qatar's website and there are clearly business class flights left still for those flights? Is there only availability specifically for classic reward flights that is not correlated to whether business class seats are even available on the carrier's direct website?
The other option is our Zurich - Doha flight if we take the 8am /early morning one we get to Doha before dinner, and we leave Doha to Perth on the same flight at 2am the next morning. So it would be the same flight except catching an earlier one into Doha. Results in leaving Zurich in the AM rather than after lunch, and so you're in Doha for transit from 4-5pm until the 2am Flight.
Any other suggestions? Or is it easy to tour Doha for the 4 or so hours transit inbetween?
Thanks for all the other suggestions and as John mentioned perhaps will take this outside so at to not go off topic regarding the oneworld award.
If anyone has any other suggestions on getting back to Perth, happy to take it. One alternative route was getting to Prague, or even going to Spain. This all means we would miss out on ending the trip at Switzerland (and getting my snowboarding fix) before flying home though
Although arguably some have mentioned Spain are much more affordable, particularly for snowboarding. With Switzerland and being there 7 or 8 days, even if 3 nights are at a snow resort I presume this would add up to hundreds per person easily...