Act Fast: Qatar Airways Business Class QSuites Awards Wide Open From 11 U.S. Cities
Right now there’s wide open availability from 11 U.S. cities on Qatar Airways to book mileage awards in their QSuites business class – to Doha and beyond, whether you’re looking at the Middle East, Maldives, or Africa. Use it to get to India or Pakistan, too.
Qatar has one of the best business class product in the world in its ‘QSuites’ that offer doors and movable partitions that allow two and even four passengers to travel together in their own space. Their QSuite is a fantastic hard product, and service and food in the air are outstanding.
Right now there’s amazing award availability from all of the U.S. cities that they serve, looking out to the end of their schedule (May 2025).
You can use this for travel from the U.S. to Doha and onward to the Mideast, India, the Maldives and even to Africa. This award space was first spotted by @findflightsforme.
Qatar Airways has long made award space available in waves, usually booked far in advance. With the launch of Avios as their currency, they committed to release business class awards when opening their schedules. That entrenches the habit of making space available as soon as the booking window opens, for travel nearly a year out. In practice, however, they seem to open space in occasional batches, rather than each day as a flight loads, so it’s important to be on the lookout for events like this.
- You’ll find space wide open in May 2025 from Atlanta; Boston; Chicago O’Hare; Dallas – Fort Worth; Houston; Los Angeles; Miami; New York JFK; San Francisco; Seattle and Washington Dulles. Decent availability, sporadically, across cities and dates starting in January 2025 as well.
- British Airways Executive Club and Qatar Airways Privilege Club both charge 70,000 Avios for U.S. – Doha, though pricing may vary on connecting itineraries. JetBlue charges 70,000 each way for business class to Doha from the Northeast and 80,000 on other flights.
- British Airways is a transfer partner of Chase, American Express, Capital One and Bilt while Qatar is a transfer partner of Amex and Citi. And BA and Qatar have more closely aligned their pricing. Chase, American Express and Citi transfer to JetBlue, albeit Amex at less than 1:1.
Credit: Qatar Airways
For what it’s worth, if you’re flying to Doha I’d suggest turning it into a 48 hour stopover – just enough for a visit to the Museum of Islamic Art.
Note that this award space seems bookable with Avios programs (Qatar, British Airways, Iberia) it does not appear available via American AAdvantage or Alaska’s Mileage Plan. For some reason, as it has been for other Qatar availability, the space does appear bookable via JetBlue.
Credit: Qatar Airways
If you want to buy up to al Safwa first class lounge access in Doha (~$165 per person) you’ll need to redeem Qatar Airways points as this is only available on tickets issued by Qatar. I believe that this is my favorite lounge in the world in terms of aesthetics.
People often comment that the lounge looks like a museum. It doesn’t just look like one! They have pieces on loan in the lounge from the Museum of Islamic Art.
The food is good. There are buffets everywhere as well as a sit-down dining restaurant with good champagne. There are dessert rooms.
And there are nap rooms. The spa though has treatments for pay, which I’ve always found odd.
Qatar Airways business class represents one of the best value uses of miles. It’s worth locking in a trip a year from now in my view if possible.
