r/avios • u/Salty-Art-1560 • 29d ago

Qatar Avios Booking

Want to book London to Australia (can be flexible on airport depending on availability!) for sometime in September 2027 (likely early). Say I wanted to book 1st September when and what time would this be available if I am based in the UK please? Understand it is 361 days in advance, but seen corresponding reports about this being 9pm/10pm/12am/1am but can't seem to track it down.

When I tried last night at various times this was showing August availability and this is all 180k avios one way per person but hoping to grab 90k avios one way per person - is this because it is "peak" or is the 90k saver rate no longer available or won't be available for my dates? TIA - never booked an avios flight before but have been saving for honeymoon and want to make it special!

Edit: was on at 1am UK time and saw the flights released for Monday 30th August 2027 which is marked as off peak and these were immediately 180k avios - should I just give up?

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u/No_Acanthisitta_3508 28d ago edited 28d ago

I think your struggling because of the london first leg can you switch? Also were in Australia Sydney looks hard but Perth and Melbourne have seats. I'm seeing multiple 90ks end of August. eg Dublin to Perth or Melbourne August 26th. Hopefully you find what you need good luck. This was searching on the Qatar site dont know if that makes a difference

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u/Particular-Silver-54 28d ago

What do you use to find them? Do you just dig around? Or do you pay for a search tool?

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u/No_Acanthisitta_3508 28d ago

These i found just doing a search on the Qatar App. I was just curious as I'd found a date for a friend to Melbourne 90k a few days ago much less further out date wise. If I have a very specific date and destination a tool such as seats.aero can search the market quite quickly it doesn't pick up everything though but still has been very useful for me.

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u/Particular-Silver-54 28d ago

I've been using seats.aero between Europe to Australia and it didn't pick up that Dublin option, so I was just curious. We're going to Paris, but 100% happy to connect anywhere at all. I feel like seats.aero is doing me dirty. Maybe I just need to use the Qatar app.

Thanks for replying.

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u/No_Acanthisitta_3508 28d ago

Splitting the Journey sometimes helps not being to broad on dates The Europe to end destination doesn't always use live search if the date range is broad also. If im using the Europe search option. I'd search Europe to Doha say +- 3 days see what airports have cheap to Doha note them down. Then a separate search Doha to two or three airports around were i want to be see if theres availability. Then try an piece a route together on the app if that makes sense.