Virgin Australia flights to Doha

[Simsy85]

So interesting - i've just booked flights to Berlin, via Doha ex Melb for next year.

When we booked the flights on Qatar, it shows as a QR metal, with QSuite and starlink.

When the tickets came through, it had the VA codeshare. When you put the QR/VA flight numbers into seatguru, it populates with the old VA777's that used to flights MEL-PER and to the US - the ones with the J product 'The Business'.

Anyone have the same issue?

 

[leesionn]

So interesting - i've just booked flights to Berlin, via Doha ex Melb for next year.

When we booked the flights on Qatar, it shows as a QR metal, with QSuite and starlink.

When the tickets came through, it had the VA codeshare. When you put the QR/VA flight numbers into seatguru, it populates with the old VA777's that used to flights MEL-PER and to the US - the ones with the J product 'The Business'.

Anyone have the same issue?

Yes because it shows the VA fleet, not QR's. It hasn't clocked that it's a Qatar plane. If you look on the side at "planes and seat maps", it also has A330-200s, ATR 72-500s, and only one 777 layout.

I found a list of the rego numbers of the QSuite 77W's, here is the TLDR (I can't find the website sorry):

42 seats: A7-BA(C/E/F/G/I/M/O) and A7-BE(D to X)
24 seats: A7-BA(T-Z) and A7-BE(A-C)

Of course this could be inaccurate or out of date.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

So interesting - i've just booked flights to Berlin, via Doha ex Melb for next year.

When we booked the flights on Qatar, it shows as a QR metal, with QSuite and starlink.

When the tickets came through, it had the VA codeshare. When you put the QR/VA flight numbers into seatguru, it populates with the old VA777's that used to flights MEL-PER and to the US - the ones with the J product 'The Business'.

Anyone have the same issue?

Just go by the seat map on the QR website, it’ll be Qsuites.

I did a dummy booking on the QR site for my VA award flight, noted available seats during the ‘seat selection’ stage, and called VA to assign the seats. Did this for several friends as well.

 

[serfty]

When you put the QR/VA flight numbers into seatguru

I don't believe seat guru can be relied on, not since COVID.

 

[jase05]

So interesting - i've just booked flights to Berlin, via Doha ex Melb for next year.

When we booked the flights on Qatar, it shows as a QR metal, with QSuite and starlink.

When the tickets came through, it had the VA codeshare. When you put the QR/VA flight numbers into seatguru, it populates with the old VA777's that used to flights MEL-PER and to the US - the ones with the J product 'The Business'.

Anyone have the same issue?

Pretty sure all QR flights to/from Australia apart from 1x daily SYD-DOH have QAuites and Starlink