Virgin Australia flights to Doha now on sale

[Bagpuss]

Melbourne – Doha commences 1 December 2025. Flights have been released for sale.

Schedule:
VA7 MEL 1710 DOH 2330 77W Daily
VA8 DOH 0140 MEL 2305 77W Daily

A long time parked up in Melbourne.

I wonder if it's be design or having to take what they were offered.

 

[Harrison_133]

A long time parked up in Melbourne.

I wonder if it's be design or having to take what they were offered.

I'd guess it's more about which departure banks in Doha that QR want the VA flights to feed.

 

[Saab34]

Was thinking they might have opted for a 6am departure from Melbourne to tap into that arvo Doha bank. Seems not. In fact none of the Australian flights seem to tap into that arvo bank, only Emirates runs a morning flight.

 

[simmomelb]

Decisions decisions...

 

[Rebus]

Does anyone have an inkling as to whether the soft product will vary between a QR service at the wet-lease VA services? To be clear, I am a Y flyer with young kids so this really amounts to things such as quality of meals, frequency of food service and how a VA status passenger (SG at time of writing) may be treated on a 'VA' flight as opposed to a QR codeshare.

 

[bernardblack]

Decisions decisions...

I don't even understand how they arrived at that. Are QR selling block seats on the VA-prime QR-metal flight, and then VA codeshares on that?

 

[Harrison_133]

I don't even understand how they arrived at that. Are QR selling block seats on the VA-prime QR-metal flight, and then VA codeshares on that?

It's two seperate flights. The VA codeshare flight (VA6135) is the CBR-MEL-DOH QR service which switches to a 4:10pm departure time the following day.

 

[jase05]

Decisions decisions...

Cheaper on the QR website. Think I’ll just go with that

 

[simmomelb]

That's a significant discount on the Qatar site.

 

[Saab34]

Should it be cheaper to buy from Virgin who are apparently wet leasing these flights, yes.

Is this a normal wet leasing deal, no.

It’s Qatar operated for Qatar no matter what you think.

 

[bernardblack]

It's two seperate flights. The VA codeshare flight (VA6135) is the CBR-MEL-DOH QR service which switches to a 4:10pm departure time the following day.

The CBR tag flight is the exact same flight time? Ay caramba.