“It’s always busy at this time but everything is running as normal,” she said.

She said the system was down for just a few minutes before it was back up and running.

“We were doing an upgrade on the network but the glitch did not cause any major worries.”

Her comments come after Virgin Blue’s Twitter account was updated with the message: “We have obviously experienced some issues. We are back online.

“Our team is working hard to get those of you flying, away asap.”