Virgin Australia flights to Doha now on sale

[SYD]

If they are QR flights, you will get a QR Booking Reference, which you enter on the Qatar website and are able to choose seats

Presumably peeps are booking “VA” flights.

Must be done by calling at this stage as per the information on this page:

Qatar Airways partnership

Whether you're travelling for business or leisure, enjoy a premium travel experience with Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways.

www.virginaustralia.com

Not being able to select seats via VA is pretty poor.

 

[L_MareeB]

Presumably peeps are booking “VA” flights.

Not being able to select seats via VA is pretty poor.

Not sure about award flights, but with my cash Y flights with VA, I got a corresponding QR booking code that I could use for seat selection. Whether or not the tickets they’ve bought include *free* selection is another question altogether…

 

[k1s3k1]

Not sure about award flights, but with my cash Y flights with VA, I got a corresponding QR booking code that I could use for seat selection. Whether or not the tickets they’ve bought include *free* selection is another question altogether…

I booked business rewards seat, VA Z class. No corresponding QR booking code in the booking confirmation

 

[PERLHR]

I booked business rewards seat, VA Z class. No corresponding QR booking code in the booking confirmation

Yes that's the problem. Same issue I had when flying ANA on a VA coded revenue ticket despite people saying use ANA PNR etc it simply did not work for seat selection until T-24 and that was on ANA website only. VA have little sway with partners it seems.

 

[L_MareeB]

I booked business rewards seat, VA Z class. No corresponding QR booking code in the booking confirmation

I didn’t find it in the booking confirmation email. Either on the page immediately after purchase or in the VA app (I’ll try and do a pic). Here is my original post on my experience. Might still not help you

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Virgin Australia flights to Doha now on sale

 

[L_MareeB]

I booked business rewards seat, VA Z class. No corresponding QR booking code in the booking confirmation

As you would have been logged into your VA account to make this booking I’m assuming it shows under your “trips” in your VA account.

1. If you use the VA app, tap “Trips” on the bottom bar.
2. Go to the relevant booking and tap on the relevant (any?) leg of that booking.
3. Tap “Manage” in the top right corner.
4. Tap “Edit trip” (I was nervous about this at first but no need to be). Takes a while to load.
5. Hopefully, there you’ll see “Partner airline references”. If you do, tap on it. Fingers crossed you get a QR booking reference there…

HTH

 

[Gold Member]

As you would have been logged into your VA account to make this booking I’m assuming it shows under your “trips” in your VA account.

1. If you use the VA app, tap “Trips” on the bottom bar.
2. Go to the relevant booking and tap on the relevant (any?) leg of that booking.
3. Tap “Manage” in the top right corner.
4. Tap “Edit trip” (I was nervous about this at first but no need to be). Takes a while to load.
5. Hopefully, there you’ll see “Partner airline references”. If you do, tap on it. Fingers crossed you get a QR booking reference there…

HTH

The “Partner Airline Reference” is not present in the app for these new wet leased flights.

 

[L_MareeB]

The “Partner Airline Reference” is not present in the app for these new wet leased flights.

Ugh. How annoying! I suppose because they’re technically, kinda sorta, VA flights. But you can’t select seats on the VA or QR websites??

 

[SYD]

Not sure about award flights, but with my cash Y flights with VA, I got a corresponding QR booking code that I could use for seat selection. Whether or not the tickets they’ve bought include *free* selection is another question altogether…

But in relation to the “wet lease” flights, there shouldn’t be a QR booking reference if booking direct with VA as either cash or points flight.

The “Partner Airline Reference” is not present in the app for these new wet leased flights.

as you’d expect.

 

[ols]

Ugh. How annoying! I suppose because they’re technically, kinda sorta, VA flights. But you can’t select seats on the VA or QR websites??

Qatar Airways partnership

Whether you're travelling for business or leisure, enjoy a premium travel experience with Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways.

www.virginaustralia.com

As already pointed out at the moment you need to call.

 

[L_MareeB]

Qatar Airways partnership

Whether you're travelling for business or leisure, enjoy a premium travel experience with Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways.

www.virginaustralia.com

As already pointed out at the moment you need to call.

I appreciate that seat selection isn’t impossible. Requiring people to call and having no option for online seat selection just seems archaic and makes for a poor customer experience. That’s more my point.

 

[k1s3k1]

it makes a bad impression on Qatar airways as well, such a big partnership and cant even add online seat selection. sounds like low cost airline

 

[ols]

it makes a bad impression on Qatar airways as well, such a big partnership and cant even add online seat selection. sounds like low cost airline

Why.
It's a VA flight.
Not a Qatar flight.

 

[zainman]

Velocity has just released Reward Seats on the VA flights between Australia and Doha. It looks like there are up to four Business Class seats available per flight, and many more in Economy.

Get in fast!

You Can Now Book Virgin Flights to Doha with Velocity Points

You can now redeem Velocity points to book Virgin Australia flights to and from Doha, and there are up to 4 Business Reward Seats available per flight.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

These are also available using other programs, I booked VA1 using Aeroplan in J

 

[zainman]

It looks a real mess currently and after crunching a few numbers it doesn’t make any sense for me to book on the VA wet lease flights. No access to the AS is a big deal breaker for me too

Sorry but what is "AS access"?

 

[jase05]

These are also available using other programs, I booked VA1 using Aeroplan in J

Yep, PER-DOH only 80k points and under $150 in charges

 

[k1s3k1]

Yep, PER-DOH only 80k points and under $150 in charges

not bad.. velocity fees and charges is triple that!

will have to wait for another 125% bonus aeroplan offer

 

[RB001]

Sorry but what is "AS access"?

Al Safwa

 

[L_MareeB]

Sorry but what is "AS access"?

I thought it might be assigned seating

 

[zainman]

I thought it might be assigned seating

Yeah me too as I booked a J reward using Aeroplan and cannot select seats online, netiher on Air Canada or Virgin, of course there is no QR PNR as it's a VA flight.