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Qatar Airways 2-for-1 Sale. Book on the 6 & 7 April, Fly between 1 May - 10 June-DELAYED FOR 24H

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****QATAR AIRWAYS HAS DELAYED THIS OFFER DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS FOR 24HRS***

I've just received this from Qatar airways in my email.

They're offering a two-for-one sale for flights taken between the 1 May till the 10th June. All travel must be completed by the 10th of June.

Booking is done on-line, through the website.

You must book the tickets on the 6th or 7th of April.

I'll let everybody find their own bargain.

Full terms & conditions below:

  • Offer is only valid for bookings made through qatarairways.com/100
  • Travel between: 1st May and 10th June 2011 (all travel completed by 10th June)
  • Purchase dates: 6th and 7th April 2011, according to the local time of your departure city
  • Offer applicable to fare only. Taxes & fees must be paid
  • Valid on Qatar Airways operated flights only
  • Limited to Economy class (Booking classes K, Q, M, L, B, and Y only)
  • Offer applies to return trips only
  • Offer does not apply for customers wishing to travel:
    o Between Sao Paulo and Bueno Aires, and from Houston, New York or Washington to Doha
  • The price shown on Price & Date Options and Flight & Fare Selection pages are per person
  • Changes permitted at a fee, within the travel period
  • The offer requires all travellers to remain on the same booking; travellers may not travel separately
  • No refunds, 100% cancellation fee will be applied
  • Child discount not applicable. Children should book as adults
  • Infant discount 80% of the adult fare. Taxes & fees must be paid
  • Seats are limited and subject to availability
  • Other conditions apply, please review the terms at the time of booking
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  • leeroys_dad on 05/04/2011 - 20:36

    bah - read this as Qantas!

    • boost on 05/04/2011 - 21:05
      +5

      Qatar would be better than Qantas if it weren't for the Doha airport

      • arcticmonkey on 05/04/2011 - 21:21

        What's so bad about the Doha airport?

        • boost on 05/04/2011 - 22:20
          +5

          For a lone passenger who had to wait 8.5 hours…1 milk-bar, 1 duty-free and 2 food courts with everything priced at double to triple Australian retail all enclosed in a small space was very fun!

        • juzz88 on 06/04/2011 - 12:13

          A lone passenger at any airport for 8.5 hours would suck though. I like Doha, nice place. Free wifi too, great for a nerd like me.

          I couldn't say enough good things about Qatar airways, definitely an excellent deal. Spewing I'll still be at Uni between now and June 10. :(

  • montza on 05/04/2011 - 21:43
    +4

    This is an incredible offer, it is well known that Qatar have one of the finest economy cabins in the world and for those that have actually traveled to Europe (not London!) flying via Doha is a huge advantage. For example, Qatar is the only airline to fly one-stop to Barcelona, a favourite destination of many. Let's face it, Heathrow is a nightmare even if you're going to London. +1 from me, a great offer. Thanks!

    • edisonAU on 05/04/2011 - 22:05
      +3

      Singapore Airlines also flies 1 stop to Barcelona via Singapore, and they serve more Australian cities than Qatar Airways. But yes it is still a good offer.

      • iSamurai on 05/04/2011 - 23:45

        Yeah, and you get better departure and connection times too.

      • montza on 07/04/2011 - 15:30

        Singapore are a sensational airline (favourite by a long way), but I must correct you - They stop in Milan (MXP) on the Singapore (SIN) connection to Barcelona (BCN) and that adds at least 1.5-2hrs to the trip. 3-4 hours I would rather spend elsewhere. Cheers

  • xyz on 05/04/2011 - 22:30

    I'd recommend Qatar Airways.
    They're flights from Oz to Brussels have the shortest layover I've ever had flying to Europe.
    So even if there's nothing in Doha Airport, it's not like you have to be there for very long (to Brussels, anyway).

  • bob19 on 05/04/2011 - 22:43
    +1

    As far as I can see, they fly only from Melbourne :(
    It's not fair… Melbourne already has significantly cheaper flights to Europe with Etihad, Emirates and Qatar.
    Who will take care of Sydney?

    • stuartfaz on 06/04/2011 - 08:07
      +1

      Macquarie Airports Ltd need to take care of Sydney and lower the cost of flying there.

      I'm amazed you got Tiger going there.

      • Cluster on 06/04/2011 - 14:01
        +1

        Macquarie Airports? Lower the cost of flying? I almost dropped my coffee cup when I read that :-)

  • sash213 on 05/04/2011 - 22:44

    the site is very slow for me

  • bargrin on 05/04/2011 - 22:46

    so what price are people getting ?

    • bob19 on 05/04/2011 - 23:06
      +1

      The sale isn't on yet. It starts on 6 April.
      I just checked their normal price from MEL to Madrid and to Barcelona. It's approx. $2180 p/p. Should we expect it to be $1090 p/p when on sale? We'll see.
      EDIT: condition: Offer applicable to fare only. Taxes & fees must be paid
      It means that it's going to be much more than $1090… probably around $1400-1500 mark. Which means that it won't be a real bargain than.

      • Memo14 on 05/04/2011 - 23:38

        Taxes that are quoted for a return flight from Europe are only $100. That means your fair should be less than $1200.

        • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 00:10

          It didn't show taxes when I tried.
          The time for the sale has come. But their web-site doesn't work. Only loads main pages but doesn't do flight search and booking. The page "We are processing your request, please wait…" stays forever.

      • Memo14 on 06/04/2011 - 00:16

        Web site did work for me but the final price did not reflect the 2 for 1.
        Unless the sale starts midnight in Qatar time.

        • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 00:22

          Purchase dates: 6th and 7th April 2011, according to the local time of your departure city. Web-site states that the sale is on.

        • wartortle on 06/04/2011 - 00:25

          It didn't work for me either. I think it means 6th and 7th Qatar time, which may not actually be the 6th and 7th for everyone, they just worded it poorly

  • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 00:33

    On my computer it showed "Offer can be booked in 00 hours 00 minutes and 00 sec".
    I clicked on Booking tab, then - on the picture with the Deal Ad and it showed booking engine where I entered the cities and dates. After that clicked Search. It went to: "We are processing your request, please wait…". But nothing changed after that.

  • Elision on 06/04/2011 - 00:34

    Wonder if the site is overloaded :/

    • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 00:36

      It worked poorly even before sale and now it stopped working.

  • [Deactivated] on 06/04/2011 - 00:44
    +2

    Getting past the "We are processing you request…" bit here, but still a no go: "Unfortunately our systems are not responding and we are unable to process your booking at the moment. We regret the inconvenience. Please try again later."

    • Memo14 on 06/04/2011 - 00:53
      +3

      Should be back to normal in 48 hours!

      • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 00:53

        That's what I think too :)

  • bargrin on 06/04/2011 - 01:45
    +5

    I get:
    "Booking Engine service is temporarily unavailable due to scheduled maintenance"

    A faulty engine is not something you want to associate with an airlines :P

  • awkwardpaws on 06/04/2011 - 01:53

    yeah not working. error messages galore!

  • heathy on 06/04/2011 - 10:13

    Flew Qatar to Brussels just recently and they were AMAZING via their $786 package and they are by far the best Airline I have travelled with (and I have travelled alot). Great Deal!

  • fLaMePrO on 06/04/2011 - 10:38

    Ahh got excited then realised it's only between May and June. I'm planning a trip to South America departing mid June :(

  • themonty on 06/04/2011 - 12:47
    +1

    For the naysayers, here you go:

    Qatar's one of only 7 airlines worldwide, including CX and SQ, that have a 5-star rating. http://www.airlinequality.com/StarRanking/5star.htm

    They came 2nd in the Best Economy Class Award (with MH coming 1st)
    http://www.worldairlineawards.com/Awards-2010/yclass.htm

    And they won all the following awards, too, most notably Best Business Class and Best Airline Middle East
    http://www.worldairlineawards.com/Awards-2010/jclass.htm
    http://www.worldairlineawards.com/Awards-2010/jcatering.htm
    http://www.worldairlineawards.com/Awards-2010/mideast.htm
    http://www.worldairlineawards.com/Awards-2010/svcexcmideast.…

    • bob19 on 06/04/2011 - 13:50

      And it's one of only few airlines whose internet booking engine doesn't work properly. Makes you think how the rest of their computer equipment works…

      • EarthMan on 06/04/2011 - 17:36

        Then go fly Qantas and hope their flight computers don't stop half way between continents… When you have good deals any website is bound to be hammered with online traffic. Try westpac banking during lunch hour.

        • bob19 on 07/04/2011 - 01:18

          Other Ozbargainers and I tried Qatar website before the sale and it struggled to work even then. So it has nothing to do with the site overload.
          In any case how can you vote positive for a deal which no one can get?
          "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."
          No sale - No deal!

      • themonty on 06/04/2011 - 20:02

        by 'rest of their computer equpiment', do you mean the computers on their aircraft? i'm pretty sure the website IT team don't maintain the onboard flight management systems.

        then again, i'm no expert..

        • bob19 on 07/04/2011 - 01:23

          If they can't maintain their booking engine properly, would you trust the rest of their service?
          Of course, it's the matter of personal choice.

  • Kkuba on 06/04/2011 - 16:17

    anyone can recommend a deal for airfares but departing melbourne after 20th of june?

    return date unknown as yet, but around 5 months later

  • Oasis on 06/04/2011 - 20:55

    Hope they have flight to Cebu
    need some R&R there

  • hugh on 07/04/2011 - 01:02
    +1

    Epic fail, hopefully their booking company does not design avionics equipment.

  • neil on 07/04/2011 - 09:10

    Just an FYI, this deal very popular atm on bargain sites around the world (Slickdeals,hotukdeals,etc) as well being mentioned by top travel blogs (Gadling). It's one thing to be competing against Australia (aka Jetstar deals) but it's another to be competing with the entire world ;).

  • bob19 on 07/04/2011 - 12:48

    Qatar Airways update:
    "Due to technical problems with our booking system, customers may have experienced difficulties booking the 2-for-1 offer.
    For this reason, Qatar Airways is postponing the special promotion to start on 13 April (00:01hrs) until 14 April (23:59hrs)."

    So it's the second time they postpone it. Probably will be the same story again on 13 April.

  • tortoise on 07/04/2011 - 14:13

    Do we know if the 00:01hrs is EST (GMT+10) or UAE time(GMT+4)?

  • mini_wombat on 13/04/2011 - 08:51

    It is on right now … !!! Just booked a flight to Europe for $1350 (incl. everything). So a ok deal … a normal deal is around 2000 at the moment.
    Looks like there is still heaps of availability (It is local time by the way) … the booking was nice and easy … I could even compare some different prices for different dates and locations before deciding.

  • arcticmonkey on 13/04/2011 - 18:35

    $1827 from Melbourne to Brazil. Wow, that is good. It's a shame I can't flight in that five week gap.

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