Another was that Virgin Australia has been heavily advertising its new partnership with Qatar Airways. This was confirmed by Virgin Australia when I reached out to them for clarification of what happened. “A small number of bookings for Virgin Australia flights operated by Qatar Airways were impacted by an isolated technical issue between Virgin Australia’s and Qatar Airways’ reservation systems during a system-related migration. I contacted Virgin Australia as a customer the week before submitting a separate media enquiry for this article. The Qatar Airways flights were excellent and I would be keen to fly with them to Dublin in the future.