Qatar Airways has officially been crowned the "World's Best Airline" by Skytrax, and to celebrate, it's hosting a huge discount party.

There's up to 40% off up for grabs when you fly from London Heathrow, Manchester, Birmingham or Edinburgh until the 10th December, to an array of popular holiday destinations in six different continents all around the world.

The 40% off discount will be automatically applied to flights - but you'll have to book before the 19th July, from Qatar Airways website.

From London Heathrow you can bag a flight to Bangkok for £479, Singapore from £497, Bali from £529 and Perth from £637. Or you can see what else is on offer here.

The inside of one of Qatar Airway's planes - now almost half price (
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Reuters)

As well as World's Best Airline award, Qatar also picked up a slew of other accolades including “World’s Best Business Class,” “Best Airline in the Middle East,” and “World’s Best First Class Airline Lounge”. In return for the nod, Qatar Airways will also be offering its Privilege Club members double Qmiles when they book on qatarairways.com, on top of the other discounts.

The Business Class trophy is perhaps due to the airline's game-changing new Business Class seat, a.k.a the 'Qsuite', which aims to be the ultimate customisable travel experience and is so unusual that it's had to be patented.

Fly business and you'll be allowed to turn the plane into a bedroom (
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Qatar Airways)

Qsuite lets adjoining passengers create the industry’s first-ever double bed available in Business Class, so they can create their own private rooms on board the plane. Although we're not sure how much we'd like to be seated next to one of these...

Create your own private suite on board to eat, work or play monopoly (
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Qatar Airways)

Want to socialise instead of sleep? Qatar will also cater for that, too, with their ever-changing Qsuites allowing passengers to turn their seats into a four-way table, which is ideal for when you're flying with colleagues, as a family and or for a social occasion.

Qatar Airways Chief Commercial Officer Mr. Ehab Amin said: “We are delighted to celebrate these great wins with our passengers from all over the world, and we hope this unique offer will allow them to experience our renowned, world-class service on our rapidly-expanding global network.”