Qatar’s Qsuite was the winner of the 2018 TPG Awards Best International Business Class of the Year, scoring a 90 in TPG‘s new numerical review scoring system. If you want to check out the product for yourself, you have one more optron to do so: Qatar just added another US destination to its Qsuite route network.

Starting June 2, Qatar will switch its Doha (DOH) to Philadelphia (PHL) route from an Airbus A350-900 without Qsuite…

…to an Airbus A350-900 with Qsuite.

The new addition brings the total number of US roues that’ll have Qsuites to eight. Just four routes had the award-winning product at the start of 2019: Chicago, Houston, New York JFK and Washington DC Dulles.

Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) was switched to Qsuite on January 16 and Los Angeles (LAX) got the new business class cabin on February 2. Boston is still scheduled to be switched on March 31 before Philadelphia is added in June.

Here’s the full details of when, where and on what type of aircraft you’ll find Qsuite on US routes. Note that there have been some equipment swaps on some of these routes since the last time we dug into the details:

Qatar Qsuite remains one of the few awards where it’s generally best to use American Airlines AAdvantage miles. So, once you find award availability, you’ll want to book right there on the AA.com website.

If you need to stock up on American Airlines AAdvantage miles to accomplish your Qsuite dreams, here are the best options right now:

• Buy AAdvantage miles for as little as 1.92 cents per mile. This is the easiest way of getting miles at the moment for an award. At 1.92 cents per mile, one-way awards between the US and the Middle East or Indian Subcontinent costs just $1,342 before minimal taxes/fees. Award flights all the way down to South Africa in Qatar business class would cost just $1,440 before taxes/fees.
• Citi / AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Mastercard: 50,000 bonus miles after you spend $2,500 in purchases in the first 3 months.
• CitiBusiness / AAdvantage Platinum World Mastercard: up to 60,000 bonus AA miles — 50,000 after you spend $3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months and another 10,000 bonus AA miles after making a total of $10,000 in purchases in first 12 months of account opening.
• Citi / AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard: 50,000 bonus miles after spending $5,000 on purchases within the first 3 months — plus Admirals Club lounge access for up to 33 travelers.

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