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.

 

[ben95]

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

I've seen plenty of times between US and AU AA advertises cheaper fare on it's QF codeshare versus what QF would charge on the same flight booked as QF code. In a JV unlike a arm-length code share the codeshare doesn't have to be priced higher than the operator-coded flight due to revenue sharing and joint revenue management.

In this case VA probably hasn't optimised the revenue managament for AU-DOH without a leg extending to Europe whereas QR obviously has optimised revenue management for Doha OD in addition to all the connection routes.

 

[SYD]

I've seen plenty of times between US and AU AA advertises cheaper fare on it's QF codeshare versus what QF would charge on the same flight booked as QF code. In a JV unlike an arm-length code share the codeshare doesn't have to be priced higher than the operator-coded flight due to revenue sharing and joint revenue management.

QF and LA are often similar!

In this case VA probably hasn't optimised the revenue managament for AU-DOH without a leg extending to Europe whereas QR obviously has optimised revenue management for Doha OD in addition to all the connection routes.

Suspect no one has really thought it through since they’re no longer an international long haul airline….

 

[drron]

Thanks. I've got my J flight to Europe (Oct 25) using Velocity points with Qatar. Hopefully I get the return flight (for Dec 25) when they become available with Qatar in early January, or if any become available with Virgin later in January

I have been looking for flights for the end of the year. BA is not showing any J awards DOH to SYD or MEL. There are only Y awards on 25/12.

 

[PERLHR]

They can say that, but it'll end up being a whats the real % of time qsuite is available on the routes. At the end of the day, this is has always been one of the problems with QR in that you don't necessarily know which plane is at your gate.

True..but usually in my opinion it does not really matter as the service is usually excellent on all aircraft. I'm probably also in the minority thinking when travelling with my partner, the A330 is excellent ..best seats of all and easy to chat, dine and relax with partner on the 2-2-2,

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Looks like the extra service to PER means that the A380 QR 900/901 service is being swapped for a 77W.

Yes. Albeit if you like that sort of thing, the QR metal will be Q Suites?

 

[PERLHR]

Cheaper on the QR website. Think I’ll just go with that
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Seems awfully expensive? Can you not just go on to Europe for that price? Surely!!

 

[jase05]

Seems awfully expensive? Can you not just go on to Europe for that price? Surely!!

Absolutely. It was just an example.