yourself on a separate Doha-Dubai-Doha ticket, get there in time to catch the Dubai-Houston flight (that would simply bring you right back to Doha where you just came from) -- but as strange as that seems it would still probably save you hundreds of dollars.

Qatar Airways must be trying to quietly screw the local population or something -- why else for these fares? I recently took a business trip and assumed I would be taking a QA flight -- WRONG! Lufthansa undercut QA's fare by over QR7000 (almost $2000 USD)!!! Amazing that the difference would be THAT much, but it was....so off to Frankfurt I went! LOL!

"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou