Qatar Airways offers some attractive Business Class fares on various city pairs between Eastern Europe and Asia, e.g. €1,395 from Sarajevo to Hangzhou or €1,475 from Zagreb to Shanghai. Furthermore, you can enjoy Qatar’s outstanding Qsuite en route to Singapore for just €1,310, starting from Sofia, or from Belgrade to Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. Another, similiar offer from Budapest to China can be found here.
We have been able to find low prices from these airports:
From Sofia:
- Singapore at €1,310 (incl. Qsuites)
- Beijing at BGN 2,742 (~€1,401)
- Phuket at BGN 2,915 (~€1,489)
- Delhi at BGN 2,760 (~€1,410)
You can try these and other city pairings on qatarairways.com.
Sadly, all flights from Europe to Doha will be aboard Airbus A320 family aircraft. This means you either enjoy lie-flat seats in what might be the world’s best commercial narrowbody Business Class. Or, more likely, you’ll get a rather lackluster product.
Connecting flights from Doha to Asia are operated by various planes of Qatar Airways’ long haul fleet. As a passenger of Qatar’s premium cabin, you will be allowed into the Al Mourjan Business Lounge. Most connections only have a short layover, but the lounge is still worth visiting. All services to some destinations like Singapore are advertised as Qsuite routes. For more information on this topic, continue here:
Search & Book
Most connections mentioned above can be found on Google Flights. To find low fares, you can use its calendar (instructions) and enter suiting dates either on our Travel-Dealz flight
All city pairings show reasonable availability on all dates except for December 2019 and June 2020. Fare Rules state that travel time must be between four days and a month. Furthermore, tickets must be purchased at least 90 days before departure. Unfortunately, there is no information on how long this offer is available.
Mileage
All flight segments are booking class R. This results in a Zagreb to Shanghai roundtrip earning you 16.680 award miles in most Oneworld frequent flyer programs, and outstanding 26,710 in Finnair’s Finnair Plus:
- 26,710 on Finnair Plus
- 21,370 on LATAM Pass
- 16,600 on Royal Air Maroc Safar Flyer
- 16,600 on Qatar Airways Privilege Club
- 16,600 on Malaysia Airlines Enrich
- 16,600 on Asia Miles
- 16,600 on Japan Airlines Mileage Bank
- 16,600 on GOL Aéreos Smiles
- 16,600 on Iberia Plus
- 16,600 on MEA Cedar Miles
- 16,600 on British Airways Executive Club
- 16,600 on S7 Airlines Priority Club
- 13,280 on Bangkok Airways FlyerBonus
- 13,280 on American AAdvantage
- 13,280 on Royal Jordanian Royal Club
- 13,280 on SriLankan FlySmiles