Last year I looked at the best use of Avios in terms of miles flown for Business Class redemptions on British Airways flights.
This week Head for Points created a table of Qatar Airways redemptions, showing the Avios required for flights from London - so I thought it was time to dig out last year's spreadsheet!
The bottom line is that the further you fly, the better value the redemption, purely on a miles per Avios basis - rather than looking at the cost of cash fares. The lower on the graph, the better the value.
Auckland and Qatar's four Australian destinations are your best options - all requiring 90,000 avios for a single redemption flight in Business Class.
Bali, Davao and Jakarta are the best options if you've got 80,000 avios available. But all the redemptions at this level are good value.
Singapore and Kuala Lumpar are great value for 75,000 avios - but this is where things get complicated. The six worst redemptions at this level on the graph are all in West Africa - where the backtracking element makes them bad value. There's also three destinations in Morocco, as well as Algiers, which are so poor value that they broke the graph and aren't displayed!
At the 65,000 avios level - Colombo is the best value, and I'd be happy with any of the redemptions. The one exception is Tunis - which again is such awful value that it's off the top of the graph.
Goa is the best value redemption at the 55,000 avios level. The four poor value destinations on the graph are Alexandria, Beirut, Cairo and Amman.
Salalah is your top value 45,000 avios redemption - but all of destinations at this level are reasonable.
It seems slightly strange that a Doha redemption at 43,000 avios ends up worse than lots of other cities - but it's still reasonable.
Compared to the British Airways graph, the Qatar Airways graph shows much more overlap between different redemption levels. There are good value redemption destinations at every level of the Qatar Airways reward chart.
Just make sure you avoid the five destinations which are truly awful value for redemptions!
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