VIRGIN Blue is confident all passengers will get to their Christmas destinations on time as operations return to normal today after a mechanical problem disrupted flight schedules.
Unscheduled maintenance on a Virgin aircraft yesterday disrupted pre-Christmas travel for thousands of the airline's passengers.
Flights were suspended and a handful were cancelled.
A Virgin spokeswoman today said operations were back to normal.
"There were a few minor delays of less than an hour on a couple of flights as a flow-on effect (this morning), but it's pretty much operations as normal today," she said.
Christmas Eve is one of the airline's busiest days of the year with about 300 flights Australia-wide.
The spokeswoman said she was confident all passengers would reach their Christmas destinations on time.
