Qatar - Adelaide to Doha

[JayTee]

Need some advice from the Qatar/Avios experts!

I managed to find Adelaide to Doha on 28 December for 108k avios one way in Business, which seems like a pretty good find given that almost every other Qatar flight I’ve searched around the same period, departing from various Australian cities, is pricing at 180k Avios.

My only hesitation is the aircraft. It’s currently showing an A350-900, which I believe has the Super Diamond business class seats rather than Qsuites.

Would you keep the 108k booking and just check availability every day in case a Qsuite flight opens up, then cancel and rebook? Or am I completely overthinking this and should just be happy with the A350 business class seat and the much lower redemption? ( I also need to fly to Adelaide to make this flight)

It’s a long flight, so obviously Qsuites would be amazing, but I also don’t want to give up a very good redemption chasing something that may never appear.

 

[jase05]

Need some advice from the Qatar/Avios experts!

I managed to find Adelaide to Doha on 28 December for 108k avios one way in Business, which seems like a pretty good find given that almost every other Qatar flight I’ve searched around the same period, departing from various Australian cities, is pricing at 180k Avios.

My only hesitation is the aircraft. It’s currently showing an A350-900, which I believe has the Super Diamond business class seats rather than Qsuites.

Would you keep the 108k booking and just check availability every day in case a Qsuite flight opens up, then cancel and rebook? Or am I completely overthinking this and should just be happy with the A350 business class seat and the much lower redemption? ( I also need to fly to Adelaide to make this flight)

It’s a long flight, so obviously Qsuites would be amazing, but I also don’t want to give up a very good redemption chasing something that may never appear.

Should be 94,500 QR Avios on that route.
Yes, ADL will still have the non QSuites product at that time. Whilst not as good of a product it’s still comfortable enough if you can’t find anything else.
You could always get a cheap flight to Asia and then pick up QSuites for 75k Avios or even as low as 62,500 Avios

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I don’t rate the Qsuites because the large headrest is not flush with the seat meaning it can be difficult to find a comfortable sleeping position.

the a350s headrest still isn’t flush, but it is smaller.

If you can find an award seat I’d grab it and enjoy!

 

[JayTee]

Should be 94,500 QR Avios on that route.
Yes, ADL will still have the non QSuites product at that time. Whilst not as good of a product it’s still comfortable enough if you can’t find anything else.
You could always get a cheap flight to Asia and then pick up QSuites for 75k Avios or even as low as 62,500 Avios

Agree , it should be 94k on this route, but I’ve searched every date and sector I can think of and can’t find anything below 180k.

What’s making it even more frustrating is that Seats.aero says the Qatar Privilege Club system isn’t working properly, so live availability isn’t coming through. That basically leaves me manually searching date by date.

Do you know of any other tools or methods I could use to search Qatar award availability more efficiently?

 

[JayTee]

I don’t rate the Qsuites because the large headrest is not flush with the seat meaning it can be difficult to find a comfortable sleeping position.

the a350s headrest still isn’t flush, but it is smaller.

If you can find an award seat I’d grab it and

Thanks mate. Yeah, for me it’s ultimately about getting anywhere into Europe. once I’m there, I can easily move around.

I always thought Adelaide was pretty reliable for QSuites, but suddenly they’ve changed the aircraft/configuration.

I’m guessing it must just be a really busy time of year, right?