I have just noticed that qatar airways isn’t showing any business rewards on velocity search page. Im looking at Sydney to London with one stop in Doha. Until recent i could find business reward but now its just showing economy one. Does anyone know what’s going on? Can it be due to approaching peak season ( im looking at november end of 2023)?
Hi @Flybird
My guess is that you are right – both Sydney and London are high-demand destinations and it looks like the reward seats for those destinations are gone. Qatar’s availability via Velocity is normally pretty good, but their own Privilege Club members do have access a few weeks before Velocity’s members do.
Two tips for snaring Business reward seats on Qatar using Velocity:
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Be flexible. Other destinations between Australia and Europe have availability (eg. there’s business availability between Melbourne and Munich on November 27 as I write this.)
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Velocity releases award seats on Qatar at midnight AEST, 330 days before the flight. I’ve had a lot of success booking business reward seats by logging in at that time (which happens to be 1am where I live in Melbourne).
Let us know how you go!
Many thanks for ur reply. I could certainly see decent availability of business awards until Nov 18-19. From 20th onwards I don’t see coming up any despite logging in at midnight. Was wondering if there’s any change n the policy.
Plus I have joined Qatar’s previlage club but its not showing me any reward seats as I have zero avios balance as of now.