The Offer
- Qatar Airways is offering 21,000 complimentary tickets for teachers. A limited number of promo codes will be distributed per country daily from 5-7 October 2020. The promo code allocation will be refreshed daily at 4 a.m. Qatar time (GMT +3).
The Fine Print
- This initiative is strictly available to School Teachers only. Eligible teacher professions and Job Types are limited to: Classroom Paraprofessional, Teaching Assistant & Substitute, Intervention & Inclusion Specialist, Tutor, Senior Leader, Early Childhood Teacher, Student counsellor, Primary Teacher, Secondary Teacher, Casual Teacher, ESL Teacher, Special Ed Teacher, Teacher Aide, Vocational Education and Training (VET) Instructor, Pre-School & Early Years Practitioner, and Classroom Technician.
- Eligible participants must reside in a county where Qatar Airways operates direct flights through Doha.
- Successful participants who receive a promo code and book a complimentary flight must present the following documents of authenticity at the airport check-in desk at the time of departure:
- An official stamped and signed letter from the Institution or School of current employment, which must clearly state the occupation, country of employment, Staff ID or Reference Number matching the information submitted on the campaign registration form. Copies or photographs of this letter will not be accepted.
- An Employment ID or a Reference Number Certificate.
- A ‘Reference Number’ relates to a Professional Teacher Registration Number assigned by a Board of Education or Ministry Register.
- Boarding will be denied, should any customer fail to provide the required physical documents of authenticity i.e. Official Employment Letter, Staff ID or Reference number certificate in addition to regular passport documents.
- Travel period: 20 October 2020 – 30 September 2021. All Travel must be completed by 30 September 2021.
Our Verdict
Qatar did a similar thing for healthcare workers as well, that was 100,000 tickets and extremely difficult to get. I assume this will be similar or worse, but a free ticket is a free ticket.
My wife won a free ticket. We have attempted to use the promo code on the website and it wants to charge us over$1500 for a trip that meets all of the criteria for a free flight. We called Qatar numerous times. We couldn’t get anyone to answer on the first few attempts. On the final attempt, we had an agent who gave us the same price for the ticket. When we said the promo code we gave him was for a free ticket he hung up on us! Anyone have any luck actually booking a free trip? Thanks.
Thanks for this. I told my friend to enter, who is a teacher, and she won!
Was lucky enough to get one. In the tc, “ The promo code is valid for a single booking for one adult ticket (age 12+) and is valid on Qatar Airways operated return (roundtrip) itineraries worldwide, excluding codeshare and interline partnerships”.
What does the ‘return’ part mean? I have to book a round trip and only the return is free?
Thanks for any help.
Return = British English for “round trip”. So it’s saying it’s valid on Qatar round trips worldwide.
To be clear, both ways are “free” (apart from taxes).
Got an email from Qatar airlines with a complimentary promo code today!
Which day of the 3 you entered?
second day, 6PM PST.
I got it, I’ll pull the trigger and give it a go….
I successfully entered my data on exactly 9PM EST the second day and got the “You should receive an email in 48 hours” message. However more than 48 hours have passed and haven’t received any email, I’m also checking my spam folder. Has anyone received an email for this?
I waited till 9pm EST to submit. Got the same error saying the daily promo code limit for my country has already been reached..
Note that they did update the terms to say “country” instead of “county”.
“ Eligible participants must reside in a country where Qatar Airways operates direct flights through Doha.”
Not entirely clear, but from my reading University professors probably aren’t eligible?
Does anyone else feel uncomfortable putting in your passport number and your work ID number? I know they have to verify but this feels accounts could be hacked pretty easily.