In July, I reported that Qatar Airways Privilege Club had added a close-in booking fee by increasing award rates for award tickets booked within 40 days of departure. Mainly Miles now reports that Qatar Airways has added peak dates to/from Southeast Asia that increase the standard award rate by 20%.
I ran some awards searches from the U.S. on Qatar Airways and saw Off-Peak noted on some dates. Those dates had 70,000 Avios listed as the award rate as expected. Unfortunately, on dates without the Off-Peak label, I did see that the rate jumped to 94,500 Avios. That's a 35% jump!
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