Hmm, what a booking change by Qantas

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We are headed to the good ol' US of A on Feb 14, and tonite I got an email from our friends at QF asking me to confirm a flight change.
We have changed from a leisurely departure out of ADL at 10.50am to Sydney, then to LAX to a 7.30 out of Adelaide, to Mel to LAX.
We also had our flight home changed from a 747 to a 380 and we now come in via Melbourne instead of Sydney.
It doesn't fuss me too much, but it does seem a major change in flights etc.
Have looked at CMT and I cannot even get a seat number for either 380 flight at the moment.
I gues it means we have more time in LA for shopping!!!!!
 
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Yes that is quite a change.

We rang and complained once when the change was "You're in J but you may not get the Skybed you booked." Turned out great for us as we got off the LAX via AKL and got on Melb-LAX direct.

Moral, if you aren't that happy about it, it can't hurt to ring up and ask for something else.
 
Have looked at CMT and I cannot even get a seat number for either 380 flight at the moment.

Might be worth calling QF and asking if they can ring through to seating to get a couple of seats released so you can get two allocated together seeing as though they instigated the change at this late stage.

Cheers

Oz
 
Call QF and talk thru your options, they may be able to switch you to more convenient timings (eg. they may be put you ADL-MEL-LAX or ADL-MEL-AKL-LAX when they could still do ADL-SYD-LAX.

Better than just clicking "accept".
 
Err, how long have the 380's been flying out of Mel?

Since QF started flying A380's... first flight was out of MEL (SYD followed hours, or was it a day, later)

Looking at the pluses of the change, IFE is better on the A380. And transfers at MEL are much easier than at SYD. Shame about the less leisurely departure.
 
Since QF started flying A380's... first flight was out of MEL (SYD followed hours, or was it a day, later)

Looking at the pluses of the change, IFE is better on the A380. And transfers at MEL are much easier than at SYD. Shame about the less leisurely departure.

I believe it was a 2 days later, as it first did QF93 MEL-LAX then QF94 LAX-MEL, then it did QF11 SYD-LAX (so no doubt a MEL-SYD non revenue flight in there somewhere) I believe that it was a couple of months before they got A380 number two running revenue flights.
 
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