Managing Qatar flight booked with Velocity Points

[IrishPete]

So we fly Business Class from Canberra with Qatar on Wednesday, booked with Velocity points.

The Qatar website doesn't recognise the Virgin booking reference.

Is this going to be a problem for online check-in? We'll be pretty pissed off if we don't get to sit together, and I wanted to check if I could choose seats in advance of check-in opening.

Nah, ignore me - I have found the Qatar booking reference.

 

[IrishPete]

Grrr, none of the side by side seats are available. but ive6napped 9b and 10a as the only two seats near each other.

Weirdly seat selection is free for Canberra to Doha, but $120 to choose seats from Doha to Dublin!

 

[stu961]

Grrr, none of the side by side seats are available. but ive6napped 9b and 10a as the only two seats near each other.

Weirdly seat selection is free for Canberra to Doha, but $120 to choose seats from Doha to Dublin!

I've been just playing this "game" myself. Managed to get a seat allocation for my DOH-BCN leg through Qatar On line chat (Qatar Gold, VA Platinum) for free, after some hand holding from myself... but can't do the PER-DOH leg, that's a VA flight, go to VA site and they can't do because it's operated by Qatar!!